POLL:Can you get away with being 3 minutes late for work?

[DainBramaged]

A week ago Monday, I went into work 40 minutes late intentionally without calling or anything. My boss didn't give a sh!t. I just stayed 40 minutes late.

 

[FrustratedUser]

I showed up at 10.15 AM today.

Flexibility FTFW!

 

[GhettoFob]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
I'm about 15 minutes late every day, but I get more done in a day than most people, so I do what I want.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
as long as im in before 10ish, and get 40 hrs a week, i can do whatever i want

so, no


though, if being on time consistently is the rule, i see no problem with firing after repeated offenses. i mean, its retarded, but rules are rules. probably doing the employee a favor anyway. work is stressful enough not having to worry about being minutes late...

Except that's 9a and 50 (though some of those hours can be telelcommute). Many of the managers are computer illiterate though, so they still think I need to be physicaly present t be working, so I have to submit to face time.

 

[ViviTheMage]

i am supposed to work at 8am, but i really dont have a boss boss....soo i get around roughly 8-830.

Its a great working environment, only have to support 140 users/pcs and 4 servers and anything that has to do with electronics in the building(S, yes plural!).

Its a great job !!

 

[SampSon]

I have the luxury of making my own schedule.

 

[montanafan]

Originally posted by: Ilmater
I can't vote because I don't work hourly. I don't think any salaried employee would say yes to this, but if I were an hourly employee, yes, three minutes late 9 times in 60 days is unacceptable.

I'm a salaried employee and though I don't know if I'd be fired, I'm sure the process would be started. I've been late to work before, but I have to call ahead to let them know because, if something bad happens where I'm supposed to be and I'm not there, my employer and I could both be facing a lawsuit.

 

[KillerCharlie]

I'm a salaried engineer - I can basically come in any time between 5:30am to noon if I want to.

 

[amdhunter]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
I'm salaried, as is the rest of my team, so we're always late

 

[soydios]

Opening up the shop in the morning, yes, it matters to be there on time, but being early is far better.
After lunch break, nobody cares if you're three minutes late.

At another office job I currently have, they don't mind if you're three minutes late. Nobody starts doing anything other than checking email for fifteen minutes.

 

[dighn]

my company is real flexible. a lot of the engineers come in later than 9 am. I usually get in at 10, +/- 30 min (I take a bus which has that interval). of course I stay later

as for your third question, it really depends.

 

[troytime]

office hours are 8:30 to 5

but we work whatever hours we want basically
during the shool year i'm always there by 8am

during the summer i'm lucky to get there by 10

 

[Armitage]

Doesn't matter for me, though my boss likes for me to call or tell him ahead of time if I'll be more then about 30 minutes later then my usual arrival time. I typically get in around 8:30 during the school year (bus doesn't come until 7:30, then a stop at daycare), and about 8 in the summer. And of course its very bad if I'm late for a meeting or when somebody else is depending on me at a specific time - but I'm not.

Most of my work is independent. As long as I'm making good progress and I put in at least 40 hours a week, nobody cares to much.

 

[Chrono]

Wow. I'm sometimes either an hour+ late or I come in an hour or more earlier.

This has been happening for the past 1 1/2 years. HAHA.

 

[jagec]

The last couple jobs I've had have been flex time. I show up when I like, start working, go home when I like, and write down the number of hours I worked. Obviously if I'm going to be working a really short day, I tell someone, though.

 

[SearchMaster]

I know this is in reference to the other thread about the student being late for class and failing, so a more representative question would be:

"If you show up late for a staff meeting therefore causing a distraction 9 times in the course of 60 days, would your job be in peril?"

Though I agree the prof. in that thread is being a jerk, there IS a difference between just showing up late to your desk and disrupting the whole class by coming in late.

 

[SirChadwick]

People show up to work 10-20 minutes late at my job all the time and no one is reprimanded. My department is relatively small (7 employees) but we all do our jobs well and my boss is very understanding of Atlanta traffic. I'd say I've come into work 3-5 mintues late at least 15 times the last 60 days.

 

[Reel]

I haven't been in at the same time for 2 days in a row for the last 3 months. I expect I will be in about 10 - 11 today. My company wants to see 40 hours of work minimum a week. They aren't too concerned on the timing of those hours unless your timing impacts other aspects of the engagement.

 

[lokiju]

I had a job for 4 years that as long as I got there by 9:00AM I was OK and I was supposed to start at 8:00AM! But what was my boss going to say when he was later than me every day?

 

[zinfamous]

This completely depends on your job. I worked in research (developmental and evolutionary genetics) for 3 years, and your schedule is more or less determined by the lifecycle of the animal, or cell line, you work with, and by the time points of individual experiments. This is nice, but it can also suck. You may find yourself with nothing to do and go home early one day, and then you have 3 consecutive tests that take about 12 hourse each (in my experience, only 3 days at a time). Depending on your animal, you could find yourself showing up at 4am and working until 10ish.

The good thing about this is that there are very few PIs out there who give a flying fvck about the normal holidays and hours of your institution (if you work at a university, for example). Comp time becomes a huge benefit. Of course, if you show up late by 5 minutes on a particular day you could miss a key cycle, and ruin your entire day. Due it enough times and you may get fired. But it's usually more serious things like being careless with radioactivity or being a huge money vacuum that get you canned.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Heck no and Heck no.

Except I voted yes on the second one by accident.


Anyways we use the honor system at my work, technically you are supposed to be there at 7am but as long as it's before 7:15 no one cares.

I have no idea. I get to work 15-30 minutes early to avoid being late and it doesn't make you look bad either. Hell, it's to the point now that I feel like I'm 'late' if I get there only 10 minutes early one day.

 

[imported_Phil]

I'm usually 5-10 minutes late, sometimes 20. The boss doesn't care because I'm a good worker.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew
I'm of the opinion that as long as you're there the appropriate number of hours, and you're getting your assigned work (or greater) done on schedule, the schedule you keep should not be fixed at ALL, unless your job description mandates otherwise (many support jobs could be done at night just as well, if not better, than during the day, but many could not).

Thats like my job. Its not about what time I'm there, but whether or not what I get done is done timely. Which is never an issue. I can come in a half hour "late" for a month, and unless I specially need to do something before 9:30, I won't be in trouble for it.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: madeupfacts
This rule doesn't seem to apply for most engineers. Most engineers I know and their bosses shows up on all hours of the day. Nobody shows up 9:00am on the dot.

Which is why working in the engineering dept rules.

 

[dman]

It doesn't impact me in my current job, but, in service based jobs it has been a requirement to be on time and as such I made sure to get there early.