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[mstyrion 1]

If you are watching the door and noting arrival times of fellow employees every day, how are you getting YOUR work done?

Just wondering...

[Lipstickdiva]

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@mstyrion 1 wrote:

If you are watching the door and noting arrival times of fellow employees every day, how are you getting YOUR work done?

Just wondering...

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Well for me, I work in a very small office.  It's hard NOT to notice when people are coming and going. 

It's also hard not to know when employees are not at work if their absence affects you directly.   

[Jacie]

Spent my career in HR. Total job security because of this issue alone!

In addition, even if you might be considered and Excellent Performer, your rating was dropped to Average if you were chronically late. In my career I have let go of many people who couldn't get there on time. 

Usually they didn't make it past their probationary period.

Do what you what on your own time, a company's time is another matter.

[CrazyDaisy]

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@mstyrion 1 wrote:

If you are watching the door and noting arrival times of fellow employees every day, how are you getting YOUR work done?

Just wondering...

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I can only speak for myself, however with only 5 people in the office it is very easy to see and hear others coming and going.  Many of the drivers and construction staff start very early and expect office staff to be available when the office opens.

[151949]

Clearly,the effect of tardiness has different effects from job to job. Interesting to me to read that several posters here think tardiness is perfectly acceptable and even are rather defensive about it, like they are special and feel they have the right to be late.

I have a cousin who was a cop and had a terrible problem with being late all the time, so he would stop on his way to work and write parking tickets to account for why he didn't get there on time. He got away with that for years.

[mstyrion 1]

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@CrazyDaisy wrote:

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@mstyrion 1 wrote:

If you are watching the door and noting arrival times of fellow employees every day, how are you getting YOUR work done?

Just wondering...

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I can only speak for myself, however with only 5 people in the office it is very easy to see and hear others coming and going.  Many of the drivers and construction staff start very early and expect office staff to be available when the office opens.

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Understandable in a small office.

[mstyrion 1]

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@151949 wrote:

Clearly,the effect of tardiness has different effects from job to job. Interesting to me to read that several posters here think tardiness is perfectly acceptable and even are rather defensive about it, like they are special and feel they have the right to be late.

I have a cousin who was a cop and had a terrible problem with being late all the time, so he would stop on his way to work and write parking tickets to account for why he didn't get there on time. He got away with that for years.

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Different workplaces have different ideas of what is "tardy" and what is not. 

Not everyone clocks in and out.  What was expected in your workplace has nothing to do with other places. It's not a matter of "thinking you are special".

If your cousin was writing tickets, it sounds  like he was working, yes?  Or is writing tickets supposed to be off the clock?  

[lulu2]

Chronic tardiness is a pet peeve of mine.  It affected me as a teacher because we were forced to cover (on a regular basis) classes of certain colleagues. I do remember one colleague was not given her annual pay increment.  She still continued to be late.

[Mj12]

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@Shorty2U wrote:

I cannot take people who are late for every thing! It's so rude IMO.

Anyway, DH and I have a friend who is late to work, late to parties, late to dinner, late to everything. And he gets away with it! So much so that he made his own hours at his job and gets to come in at 10 where others come in at 9. Of course he has to work late then. (He builds data bases).

He often says he doesn't know how my husband can get up at 4AM for work after 5. Yeah well, my husband finishes working by 130PM  every other week, and 230PM every other week (It rotates). So IMO my husbands job is better because he gets to have a life after work, where as our friend is stuck at work late every day!..lol. We run all of our errands and go to Dr appts etc.together when DH is finished work. (I don't work anymore) So I like my husbands schedule!

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But your husband's friend doesn't want to get up at 4am to work, so he works later instead.  It's great the company allows them to do what works for the individual - like your husband's hours probably aren't the company standard either.  It's not necessarily a better job, just a different one.

[missy1]

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@Shorty2U wrote:

I cannot take people who are late for every thing! It's so rude IMO.

Anyway, DH and I have a friend who is late to work, late to parties, late to dinner, late to everything. And he gets away with it! So much so that he made his own hours at his job and gets to come in at 10 where others come in at 9. Of course he has to work late then. (He builds data bases).

He often says he doesn't know how my husband can get up at 4AM for work after 5. Yeah well, my husband finishes working by 130PM  every other week, and 230PM every other week (It rotates). So IMO my husbands job is better because he gets to have a life after work, where as our friend is stuck at work late every day!..lol. We run all of our errands and go to Dr appts etc.together when DH is finished work. (I don't work anymore) So I like my husbands schedule!

And my husband is never late for anything unless something happens. In fact when he has been late a few times in YEARS (due to an accident and traffic being re-routed), I was worried something happened to him because he is that punctual!

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Maybe he don 't want to come home to the wife.