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In retail, I had a manager who would take an hour break, had breaks to go pray, had coffee breaks and cig breaks. Yet he would time us on how fast we can putaway a delivery and expected 10 mins a pallet...
Procrastination is the big issue with lateness, and I'll let you in on my secret formula to overcome it.
Maybe later, perhaps, or maybe not. Remind me, somebody..
I was bad until mid 20s early 30s.. but then I realized that extra 30 mins of sleep is not going to make a difference.. and getting to work 10 mins early isnt that big of a deal.
I wake up 2 or 3 hours early so I can enjoy my procrastination. Seriously, try it. Just fuck off all morning and then go to work and be on time. It's awesome.
People drink beer and booze after work and sit at the bar till they can’t stand, I have a joint after work and finish cleaning my home and doing laundry and I get looked at like I’m the spawn of satan himself
I'm the opposite. Everything works like gorilla glue. Sativa, indica, hybrids, vape, flower, edibles, all of it gives me couch-lock.
That said, if I know I have to be somewhere, I just don't use.
that's because labels like sativa and indica are largely meaningless now. and definitely pointless with edibles & vapes. look what the cannabinoids are. CBN is sleepy. CBG is more active. CBD is good to synergize and be less "spacey" high and more body high. None of them and it's a pretty quick standard high but expect to "crash."
I worked with a girl who would get high before she had to pound through some repetitive work. She was on it like a laser beam. The boss knew and didn’t care because her work spoke for itself.
Mine are nice, too.
As for the guy thing, probably the same reason Tim the Toolman Taylor and Homer Simpson are bumbling idiots and their wives are shrewd.
Those gendered expectations are written into our dna, so depictions of women as inept come across as misogynistic. But yes, bumbling women do exist.
I just had to fire my *care giver* for shit like this. There was times where I was put in danger because of her tardiness and random frequent absence and I wouldn't even get an apology for it. As if her job didn't have massive consequences on myself and everyone around me.
I tried to give her so many chances cuz I get how depression and anxiety can mess with you but eventually the fickle scheduel started giving me panic attacks when it was her day to come in. She just didn't care and I was done caring more about her wellbeing than she did with mine.
I'd have scoffed at this too before I had a kid. Put my 16mo old in daycare a few months ago as I started full time work and all of March I was fighting sickness and other shit trying to get used to the schedule. Only reason I wasn't late is I work from home and can log into my morning meeting from my phone as I drive.
it really depends though. not all jobs / roles / office environments are the same.
all those 10 and 20 mins late don't really mean that much if you can get the work done in the other 460-480 minutes you ARE there.
those sick days could also be "feeling crappy, getting over something, will WFH" days where the work is getting done remotely.
it doesn't look good on paper, sure, but consider if the person recording this on paper even really needs to do this. could just be a vendetta for some personal reason. there's no context here.
I've worked with plenty of people who show up on time and never take a sick day even when they ARE FUCKING SICK, and barely contribute anything, and I've worked with plenty of people who kill it during the hours they ARE in and then want to get back to their goddamn lives.
Can be a lot more leeway if it's not shift work, and not customer facing too. I work in a tiny machine shop that serves a factory and it's practically a case of "you need 40 hours a week, I don't really care which 40 hours." One guy comes in at like 4am, another comes in at like 10am. The other 2 people (including me) are in-between. Hell 3 out of the 4 of us work four 10 hour shifts so every weekend is a 3 day weekend.
I currently work with a woman who is nearly half an hour late, literally every single day. I think I’ve seen her show up on time maybe 5-6 times in the year I’ve worked there. My desk happens to be across from hers so I see when she comes in every day.
She does fine at work, but no matter how many times management talks to her about punctuality she just will not show up on time.
At one point they went so far as to tell her she can adjust her schedule by an hour so she’d start an hour later and stay an hour later in the day.
They tried it for a week. She was still half an hour late. Even though her start time was now an hour later than before.
They did this same shit with my school in highschool. Classes started at 730am and there was a huge problem with Jr. And Sr. year kids showing up late. Someone decided that if classes didnt start till 830am then it wouldn't be an issue any longer, so they changed it. Buss routes were changed, kids who were dropped off by parents on their way to work sat around in school halways for an hour or more....Jr and Sr years who drove themselves........still....late.
Turns out people will adjust their schedules to match their new reality instead of stayin stagnant. Kids who once went to bed at 10-11pm to get up at 6-7am now went to bed at 11-12 and got up 7-8.
You'd be surprised how long this can go on especially in restaurants. AND, the person usually doesn't get fired, they quit after too many talks about their punctuality. I'm no peach, but this is pretty whack.
I worked at Walmart for 9 mos. It was impossible to get fired, even with this attendance.
Trust me, I tried. Eventually I just stopped showing up, HR called like two says later to ask if I was coming back, then they sent me a separation letter.
Yes. I have an employee with adhd and I just count on him to be late and take extra time to get things done. He’s such a sweetheart though, it’s totally worth it.
Same, it doesn’t matter how late you schedule me. I’ll always show up a few minutes late. Never more than 10-15 minutes though, and once I get there I get my shit done. My boss is cool thankfully and already knows me. If he needs me there at 10, he’ll schedule me for 9:30. I’ll get there at 9:40.
I'm never more than a minute or two late, but it's every time. Very strange. I spent middle school and high school in detention because I would often get to school between when the late bell started to ring and when it ended, seconds, and that was too late for them.
So, if you line that up against a calendar, it summarizes as "almost always sick or late on Tuesday, sometimes spilling to Wednesday. A handful of occurrences on other days of the week."
Especially if Tuesday is typically their first working day of the week, because the shops closed Monday or they work 4 tens or whatever,I would gently inquire of one with this pattern if they maybe have some habits that have hit that tipping point between "high functioning" and "Causing problems in your life."
This can be an opportunity to frame the problem statement gently and constructively that motivates changing lifestyle, getting help with that if needed, or the sort of thing that less than ideally handled can lead to defensiveness, showing up not ready to work instead of staying home, concealing and minimizing habits that often precipitate bad habits transitioning to crippling addictions.
Well said. I was a functioning alcoholic until I wasn't - and my schedule probably looked an awful lot like this. It wasn't long until I started to show up to things smelling like booze.
Needs more context.
Salaried employee who is good at their job and always lets their manager know these things, no problem.
Hourly employee in a time sensitive job like customer service shift work, big problem.
Had a girl start working that I was more or less in charge of. The large shared office we had was the furthest from the door and her role was interactive with all the project managers. She literally had EVERYONE to walk past when she came in late and didn't act like punctuality matters. She would come in 15-30 minutes late every day and leave 15-30 minutes early. She would make dumb excuses for calling out sick (when she didn't have PTO banked in the first place) and I had to remind her that because of that, if she needed a vacation or something, they weren't obligated to pay her if her PTO didn't cover the days. She didn't even come in on time the next day after having a talk. I started keeping track INCLUSIVE of reasons (they were almost always so confusing I thought someone was playing a joke on me) when she would email me in the morning to say stuff like "I was voluteering at the animal shelter last night and got bit by a dog, so I need to take today to fill a prescription". Eventually, when the boss was like "she's never here, and no one has been keeping track!"... I said "that's not ENTIRELY true" and showed him the spreadsheet I kept indicating she hadn't worked a full week in 5 months of employment. Fired immediately. The boss, who is a nice enough dude, whistled as he dragged all the stuff off her desk into a cardboard box and left it at the front desk.
This ain't OP's. The original post says the worker was a single mom with 3 kids. This might change your view.
Edit: Found the [thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/khdJiEYoKS)
Oooo…. yeeaahh… uuummm… I’m going to have go ahead and sorta disagree with you there. Yahh uh, shes been real flaky lately and I’m just not sure that shes the caliber person that we’d want for upper management.
Who leaked my personal information, I was told after my disciplinary surrounding this it would stay with HR. I specifically identified that I struggle with motivation due to not wanting to work, but due to my financial issues I am having to work currently and until I can find or source a money tree.
I've had a job with a get out of jail free card for the good workers. I never used it, but you could basically just go "nope, not feeling it" and go home. Obviously you couldn't do that all the time, but if you really weren't "feeling it" they'd rather not have you there in the first place. No need to bring the rest of the crew down.
consultant:
Whenever I see things like this, my initial instinct is there's some systematic or work culture problem that could be addressed with training mgrs and implementing sustainable measures from top down to make it a place your staff want to go.
In my experience it's usually some mid-high level mgr with very bad people mgmt skills and zero leadership.
my clients usually see this as an isolated problem and put it that person on performance mgmt so they can start the legal ball rolling to sack them fairly.
I got sacked for it.
The next guy they hired, it took him 12 hours what I did in 3.
What some employers prioritize is wrong.
I now make more money with nobody clock watching.
It really depends on the type of work.
If say you work in hospitals, restaurants or some type of shift work where the next guy is depending on you to come in and “change over” or relieve him so that he can clock off and go home; punctuality is important.
So with hospitals, peoples lives are relying on you to be on time. Like a nurse. A nurse can’t just leave her patients until the next nurse clocks in and they do their rounds to pass on the details of each patient. Or when there’s “peak” and off peak hours. If you don’t come in when your rostered on time, and the busy period starts, now they’re short staffed and everyone gets screwed because somebody didn’t come in on time. That’s disrespectful to your colleagues, customers, patients. Yourself.
And that’s where my experience comes in. When I’ve been on the receiving end of late coworkers and I had to stay behind because of them. That sucks, bro.
But I get it with other jobs that aren’t “time sensitive” or you can “catch up” on paperwork if you’re faster.
So there’s no broad answer for this.
If time is critical in your job, then be in time. Otherwise it’s disrespectful to your colleagues and patients. It’s not just about “screwing The Man” your employer.
It’s about self respect.
It’s an old tradition of working more hours being the priority to pump out profits. It has shifted over time but reducing hours for more productivity can be seen by good managers for those in salary positions.
I work in HR and I deal with these people everyday. Everyday got an excuse. Then they look all hurt when we terminate them. Like they didn't understand how this game they were playing ends
When I started a job at a grocery store in high school. I told the assistant manager I lived the next town over and not to start me until 4:00. I asked the owner, he said, “Fine, of course.” First week the asst. mgr. marks me down late, everyday I was scheduled.
This is 100% the partner you’re always assigned for every major work project but they are always so politically savvy that you get the blame when the project fails.
In Aus i know a few places that stopped showing sick days because there’s staff that’ll wait for it to just roll up to 8hrs then call in sick the next day.
Low key my sister is worse than this and she still has her job at a big university. She calls in sick or leaves early maybe 1/5 of the time, sometimes more than one day in a row, and she sometimes does it for doctors appointments but most often it’s just so she can not be stressed out by work. She’s got the worst anxiety of anyone I’ve known, and she has accrued many sick days from a prior job with the same school, so she can keep doing this I guess?
Unrelated to this, I've never been late to anything. My social anxiety prevents me from being late to something, and even early. When in school if I ever arrived early I would always sit and wait until the exact time I needed to be somewhere before going into class, or until I saw someone else enter the class before me.
On the note of sickness, I really fucked up my body in my teenage years with poor hygiene and diet, and now my autoimmune system is just killing itself every couple of days. It really sucks, and honestly I am scared of applying to most jobs because I fear being in an interview and suddenly having to dip out because of a stomach issue haha. I truly regret having the diet I have had growing up.
My attendance looks like this, I'm not late though. Just put a lot. Have had some bad health issues the past few years and thankfully FMLA exists, but even that's been its own shit show due to third party leave management.
Honestly depends on the work place. If you don’t work with shifts and you then start late and work late (or go a shorter lunchbreak) than this is fine in my opinion.
This looks like me at my previous job. The job was 8-5 about an hour from my house, but I had to take it because of how well it paid and I figured my body would get used to the new sleep schedule after a couple weeks. Several months passed and I realized it wasn't getting any easier. It still felt nearly impossible to get up at 7 no matter how early I went to bed the night before. I did some research and found out I probably have delayed sleep phase. I wanted to get a proper diagnosis, but I couldn't afford it, nor could I wait that look since the mornings were taking a huge toll on me. I asked my boss several times for a 9-6 shift and it became very clear after awhile that his attitude towards my request had nothing to do with the job itself. I couldn't even get him to give an actual reason why he "couldn't do it" until the third time discussing it and the only one he could muster up was that the customer might need to call us at 8. Nobody ever called me that early in the entire year I worked there, so it just came off as an afterthought. The rest of his arguments just revolved around "being strong" and "good attitude". After about a year at the company, the mornings were becoming so painful that I started having suicidal ideations and had to quit the job for the sake of my own safety. I now make far less money and I'm barely scraping by but at least I'm still alive. Sometimes it's good to just believe and accommodate someone, even if it hurts your pride.
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Someone teach him how to use spreadsheets
There’s a 0.1% chance this PC has excel on it
Yo momma taught me how to spread her sheets
Oh sheet!
Damn, you made a Power^(full)Point
he's was sick that day
Looks someone is in line to be the next CEO!!
I don't see any 3 hour lunches in there...
4 hrs late, he had a breakfast meeting.
Some serious Ted shit going on.
Wow are you my coworkers??!
In retail, I had a manager who would take an hour break, had breaks to go pray, had coffee breaks and cig breaks. Yet he would time us on how fast we can putaway a delivery and expected 10 mins a pallet...
You in Ontario Canada by any chance? Lol
That's cause those are being uses as "business lunches."
They probably already are, anyone else would be fired after 1/18.
"Executive time "
Def boss
Procrastination is the big issue with lateness, and I'll let you in on my secret formula to overcome it. Maybe later, perhaps, or maybe not. Remind me, somebody..
I bought a book on delayed discounting, I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet
I bought a book on positive thinking. It was shit.
I bought a book on learning how to read. I couldn't read it.
I bought a book about glue. I can’t put it down
I bought a book on Orbital Mechanics but it went right over my head
I just got done reading Great Expectations. It wasn't as good as I thought it'd be.
I tried reading Moby Dick but as the story went on it fell flacid.
I bought a book on being a likeable person. Gave it to my wife.
I bought a book about your mom. It is a thick book.
Tomorrow is always the best time to start something new.
I was bad until mid 20s early 30s.. but then I realized that extra 30 mins of sleep is not going to make a difference.. and getting to work 10 mins early isnt that big of a deal.
The best part about my job is that work doesn’t start until I show up
I wake up 2 or 3 hours early so I can enjoy my procrastination. Seriously, try it. Just fuck off all morning and then go to work and be on time. It's awesome.
You just tell yourself you do this one task for a single minute.
In a minute
I don't get it (french) can you develop pls ?
The joke is that because he’s lazy, he can’t gather the energy to tell us the secret to stopping laziness.
Oh ok i thought it'd be a saying or something (i'm dumb as a chair)
RemindMe! 1 day
Don’t put it off, procrastinate now! -Ellen Degeneres
Perfect!
Can we know the secret now?
I might, prolly won’t.
The sickness? Yeah, I’m down with it.
\~Uhhhh ACK ACK ACK ACK!!
That’s my safe word.
When did Disturbed recruit Cathy as their new singer?
I'll be a good boy, I promise!
r/ACK
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Had a coworker like this. Sick usually meant at home getting high.
I still get high and show up early 😂 why people use weed as their excuse for laziness.
People are just lazy. Weed doesn’t make people lazy. For me, if anything, it makes me more productive as I’m far more interested in mundane tasks.
I thought weed made me lazy but it was just the anxiety/social anxiety preventing me from doing anything.😅
People drink beer and booze after work and sit at the bar till they can’t stand, I have a joint after work and finish cleaning my home and doing laundry and I get looked at like I’m the spawn of satan himself
To be fair you assumed he was talking about weed. It could be a much more nefarious substance if it's causing them to constantly miss work.
nobody’s looking… just normal paranoia… good times…
Yeah same my first thought usually before having to do something is alright let's smoke a bowl and then _______
I'm the opposite. Everything works like gorilla glue. Sativa, indica, hybrids, vape, flower, edibles, all of it gives me couch-lock. That said, if I know I have to be somewhere, I just don't use.
that's because labels like sativa and indica are largely meaningless now. and definitely pointless with edibles & vapes. look what the cannabinoids are. CBN is sleepy. CBG is more active. CBD is good to synergize and be less "spacey" high and more body high. None of them and it's a pretty quick standard high but expect to "crash."
I worked with a girl who would get high before she had to pound through some repetitive work. She was on it like a laser beam. The boss knew and didn’t care because her work spoke for itself.
lol right? I’m up at 245am and on time to work at 4am and I’m usually blazed af and get more work done than everyone else so 🤷♀️
I just get high in the parking lot like a reasonable adult.
For me, being "on time" means I parked the car and still have time left for a toke *and* show up inside 5 minutes early.
boobies?
She had nice ones. When she wasn't getting high, she was showing off her body at raves.
I think they meant yours, but damn, why did I instantly think you meant a guy.
Mine are nice, too. As for the guy thing, probably the same reason Tim the Toolman Taylor and Homer Simpson are bumbling idiots and their wives are shrewd. Those gendered expectations are written into our dna, so depictions of women as inept come across as misogynistic. But yes, bumbling women do exist.
For what it’s worth, I automatically assumed your friend was female because you are, and I’ve known plenty of stoner chicks.
I take it she got promoted? Good for her. I should try showing some skin to my boss and see if I can work less.
It’s called a mental health day sweaty
weed culture is for dullards
I would argue with you, but it's about time to rip the bong and feel guilty about the person that I am.
haha i like this guy 🥰🥰🥰
This is an unfortunate truth.
da fuq is “weed culture?” Can’t somebody enjoy something without it being a damn “culture” or “community?” FFS
Where did you get my lazy, malingering co-worker's schedule?
I just had to fire my *care giver* for shit like this. There was times where I was put in danger because of her tardiness and random frequent absence and I wouldn't even get an apology for it. As if her job didn't have massive consequences on myself and everyone around me. I tried to give her so many chances cuz I get how depression and anxiety can mess with you but eventually the fickle scheduel started giving me panic attacks when it was her day to come in. She just didn't care and I was done caring more about her wellbeing than she did with mine.
Was about to say, it’s my manager’s work schedule.
I've trained enough 18-year olds to recognize this list.
Supposedly it’s a single mom of 3 per the original post
ok, so sick isn't just that the employee is sick. This makes more sense.
I'd have scoffed at this too before I had a kid. Put my 16mo old in daycare a few months ago as I started full time work and all of March I was fighting sickness and other shit trying to get used to the schedule. Only reason I wasn't late is I work from home and can log into my morning meeting from my phone as I drive.
She can still be 18
With 3 kids I’m surprised she isn’t sick more often. I swear kids actually generate new viruses within their bodies to spread to those around them.
I was going to say that this was me at my first retail job after high school. not this bad but was def late a lot.
4 hrs? Why go?
So it doesn't count as a "missed day". Sometimes I'll come into work for a couple hours so I don't have to use a PTO lol
Not registered: worked 4 hours later
So... is he sick? Or the situation is Hella "sick" ?
So sick brah
There’s no way you wouldn’t get sacked for this
it really depends though. not all jobs / roles / office environments are the same. all those 10 and 20 mins late don't really mean that much if you can get the work done in the other 460-480 minutes you ARE there. those sick days could also be "feeling crappy, getting over something, will WFH" days where the work is getting done remotely. it doesn't look good on paper, sure, but consider if the person recording this on paper even really needs to do this. could just be a vendetta for some personal reason. there's no context here. I've worked with plenty of people who show up on time and never take a sick day even when they ARE FUCKING SICK, and barely contribute anything, and I've worked with plenty of people who kill it during the hours they ARE in and then want to get back to their goddamn lives.
Can be a lot more leeway if it's not shift work, and not customer facing too. I work in a tiny machine shop that serves a factory and it's practically a case of "you need 40 hours a week, I don't really care which 40 hours." One guy comes in at like 4am, another comes in at like 10am. The other 2 people (including me) are in-between. Hell 3 out of the 4 of us work four 10 hour shifts so every weekend is a 3 day weekend.
I currently work with a woman who is nearly half an hour late, literally every single day. I think I’ve seen her show up on time maybe 5-6 times in the year I’ve worked there. My desk happens to be across from hers so I see when she comes in every day. She does fine at work, but no matter how many times management talks to her about punctuality she just will not show up on time. At one point they went so far as to tell her she can adjust her schedule by an hour so she’d start an hour later and stay an hour later in the day. They tried it for a week. She was still half an hour late. Even though her start time was now an hour later than before.
That's impressive dedication to being late 😂
They did this same shit with my school in highschool. Classes started at 730am and there was a huge problem with Jr. And Sr. year kids showing up late. Someone decided that if classes didnt start till 830am then it wouldn't be an issue any longer, so they changed it. Buss routes were changed, kids who were dropped off by parents on their way to work sat around in school halways for an hour or more....Jr and Sr years who drove themselves........still....late. Turns out people will adjust their schedules to match their new reality instead of stayin stagnant. Kids who once went to bed at 10-11pm to get up at 6-7am now went to bed at 11-12 and got up 7-8.
You'd be surprised how long this can go on especially in restaurants. AND, the person usually doesn't get fired, they quit after too many talks about their punctuality. I'm no peach, but this is pretty whack.
I worked at Walmart for 9 mos. It was impossible to get fired, even with this attendance. Trust me, I tried. Eventually I just stopped showing up, HR called like two says later to ask if I was coming back, then they sent me a separation letter.
ADHD people w/ no time management skills whatsoever sweating in the chat
Yes. I have an employee with adhd and I just count on him to be late and take extra time to get things done. He’s such a sweetheart though, it’s totally worth it.
As long as you know it will happen and why (and it's reasonable), that's fine. You can plan accordingly.
Everyday I'm 2 to 7 minutes late. No matter how hard I try, I can't get to work earlier, I find more crap to cram into the time before I go to work.
Same, it doesn’t matter how late you schedule me. I’ll always show up a few minutes late. Never more than 10-15 minutes though, and once I get there I get my shit done. My boss is cool thankfully and already knows me. If he needs me there at 10, he’ll schedule me for 9:30. I’ll get there at 9:40.
I set my clocks forward, but since I \*know\* my clocks are forward, it does me no good!
I'm never more than a minute or two late, but it's every time. Very strange. I spent middle school and high school in detention because I would often get to school between when the late bell started to ring and when it ended, seconds, and that was too late for them.
I just have a very fluid relationship with time.
What is time, really, except something to make ADHDers miserable?
So, if you line that up against a calendar, it summarizes as "almost always sick or late on Tuesday, sometimes spilling to Wednesday. A handful of occurrences on other days of the week." Especially if Tuesday is typically their first working day of the week, because the shops closed Monday or they work 4 tens or whatever,I would gently inquire of one with this pattern if they maybe have some habits that have hit that tipping point between "high functioning" and "Causing problems in your life." This can be an opportunity to frame the problem statement gently and constructively that motivates changing lifestyle, getting help with that if needed, or the sort of thing that less than ideally handled can lead to defensiveness, showing up not ready to work instead of staying home, concealing and minimizing habits that often precipitate bad habits transitioning to crippling addictions.
Well said. I was a functioning alcoholic until I wasn't - and my schedule probably looked an awful lot like this. It wasn't long until I started to show up to things smelling like booze.
Needs more context. Salaried employee who is good at their job and always lets their manager know these things, no problem. Hourly employee in a time sensitive job like customer service shift work, big problem.
Had a girl start working that I was more or less in charge of. The large shared office we had was the furthest from the door and her role was interactive with all the project managers. She literally had EVERYONE to walk past when she came in late and didn't act like punctuality matters. She would come in 15-30 minutes late every day and leave 15-30 minutes early. She would make dumb excuses for calling out sick (when she didn't have PTO banked in the first place) and I had to remind her that because of that, if she needed a vacation or something, they weren't obligated to pay her if her PTO didn't cover the days. She didn't even come in on time the next day after having a talk. I started keeping track INCLUSIVE of reasons (they were almost always so confusing I thought someone was playing a joke on me) when she would email me in the morning to say stuff like "I was voluteering at the animal shelter last night and got bit by a dog, so I need to take today to fill a prescription". Eventually, when the boss was like "she's never here, and no one has been keeping track!"... I said "that's not ENTIRELY true" and showed him the spreadsheet I kept indicating she hadn't worked a full week in 5 months of employment. Fired immediately. The boss, who is a nice enough dude, whistled as he dragged all the stuff off her desk into a cardboard box and left it at the front desk.
This ain't OP's. The original post says the worker was a single mom with 3 kids. This might change your view. Edit: Found the [thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/khdJiEYoKS)
Removed >This is not a ragebait subreddit Did they have some mod turnover recently? Seems like that's all that sub was for a while
Hmm nah as far as I know the woman chose to have three kids and shouldn't use them as an excuse to be late.
4 hrs late lol
Any engineering or software dev role in a good company will allow this if you’re a productive employee.
This is a straight shooter with upper level management written all over them.
Oooo…. yeeaahh… uuummm… I’m going to have go ahead and sorta disagree with you there. Yahh uh, shes been real flaky lately and I’m just not sure that shes the caliber person that we’d want for upper management.
If you work some vacation time in there, you could be President of the United States.
Who leaked my personal information, I was told after my disciplinary surrounding this it would stay with HR. I specifically identified that I struggle with motivation due to not wanting to work, but due to my financial issues I am having to work currently and until I can find or source a money tree.
That's my work colleague, yet if I take one day off sick, I'll get put in the office and questioned like I stole the Kings crown.
How do you still have a job?!
This is somebody with some serious issues or just a horrible employee. With that many "late" notes, I'm inclined to think horrible employee.
Sick… of all this bullshit!
Get this person a meeting with Bob and Bob!
I desire context.
What would you say you do here at Initech?
Why wasn’t he canned after the third day??
if you’re fine fine fine then I’m SICK SICK SICKKKK
How can people afford to do this?
No context?
Who stole my personal data?! This is from before I had my adhd diagnosis and still thought I could be a normal office boy.
Good job. Keep up the good trend.
uff. this one has to go.
i've never had a job that wouldn't fire you for 2 lates in a week or 2 sick days without a Dr note
I've had a job with a get out of jail free card for the good workers. I never used it, but you could basically just go "nope, not feeling it" and go home. Obviously you couldn't do that all the time, but if you really weren't "feeling it" they'd rather not have you there in the first place. No need to bring the rest of the crew down.
consultant: Whenever I see things like this, my initial instinct is there's some systematic or work culture problem that could be addressed with training mgrs and implementing sustainable measures from top down to make it a place your staff want to go. In my experience it's usually some mid-high level mgr with very bad people mgmt skills and zero leadership. my clients usually see this as an isolated problem and put it that person on performance mgmt so they can start the legal ball rolling to sack them fairly.
I got sacked for it. The next guy they hired, it took him 12 hours what I did in 3. What some employers prioritize is wrong. I now make more money with nobody clock watching.
It really depends on the type of work. If say you work in hospitals, restaurants or some type of shift work where the next guy is depending on you to come in and “change over” or relieve him so that he can clock off and go home; punctuality is important. So with hospitals, peoples lives are relying on you to be on time. Like a nurse. A nurse can’t just leave her patients until the next nurse clocks in and they do their rounds to pass on the details of each patient. Or when there’s “peak” and off peak hours. If you don’t come in when your rostered on time, and the busy period starts, now they’re short staffed and everyone gets screwed because somebody didn’t come in on time. That’s disrespectful to your colleagues, customers, patients. Yourself. And that’s where my experience comes in. When I’ve been on the receiving end of late coworkers and I had to stay behind because of them. That sucks, bro. But I get it with other jobs that aren’t “time sensitive” or you can “catch up” on paperwork if you’re faster. So there’s no broad answer for this. If time is critical in your job, then be in time. Otherwise it’s disrespectful to your colleagues and patients. It’s not just about “screwing The Man” your employer. It’s about self respect.
It’s an old tradition of working more hours being the priority to pump out profits. It has shifted over time but reducing hours for more productivity can be seen by good managers for those in salary positions.
This pretty much screams not interested in the job just trying to pay the bills.
I had 23 jobs in my life I did this on all of them, fuck it
I work in HR and I deal with these people everyday. Everyday got an excuse. Then they look all hurt when we terminate them. Like they didn't understand how this game they were playing ends
That’s sick!
I was sick on my first day of work before. I came in, but I was really sick, so I had to leave. It was very awkward, lol.
Looks like my co-workers
The procrastination monster sneaks in, and before you know it, you've been staring at him for 2 hours without realizing it
This was me at 20
The day arriving 4hs late is worth arriving?
When I started a job at a grocery store in high school. I told the assistant manager I lived the next town over and not to start me until 4:00. I asked the owner, he said, “Fine, of course.” First week the asst. mgr. marks me down late, everyday I was scheduled.
Bro's sick af
We all work with someone like this
Nothing to be proud of.
Fired
My wife has a coworker like this, the person hasn’t gotten a full 5 day shift in in 7yrs, some weeks missing 2 days.
The time line of a shitty employee??? 🤔
Turned one of these over to HR about an employee, and they told there wasn't anything wrong with that because he's salaried.
4 hours late ahah
lol. i was 15-20min late almost every day for 15 years.
What kind of self-respecting company keeps data like this in what looks like a normal text doc? lol
This is 100% the partner you’re always assigned for every major work project but they are always so politically savvy that you get the blame when the project fails.
Way to prove that people "just dont wanna work nowadays".
4/5 FIRED
I would have fired them the second day. First day sick then 4hrs late. Nope. Next please.
they care about their work as much as you care about your employees thats called a mutual relationship
Do they work in Dubai??
In Aus i know a few places that stopped showing sick days because there’s staff that’ll wait for it to just roll up to 8hrs then call in sick the next day.
Who TF calls out sick on your FIRST DAY!
Low key my sister is worse than this and she still has her job at a big university. She calls in sick or leaves early maybe 1/5 of the time, sometimes more than one day in a row, and she sometimes does it for doctors appointments but most often it’s just so she can not be stressed out by work. She’s got the worst anxiety of anyone I’ve known, and she has accrued many sick days from a prior job with the same school, so she can keep doing this I guess?
Unrelated to this, I've never been late to anything. My social anxiety prevents me from being late to something, and even early. When in school if I ever arrived early I would always sit and wait until the exact time I needed to be somewhere before going into class, or until I saw someone else enter the class before me. On the note of sickness, I really fucked up my body in my teenage years with poor hygiene and diet, and now my autoimmune system is just killing itself every couple of days. It really sucks, and honestly I am scared of applying to most jobs because I fear being in an interview and suddenly having to dip out because of a stomach issue haha. I truly regret having the diet I have had growing up.
He made 4/20....
I'm going to guess that this is the boss' / owners kid.
The average employee
This is a pretty typical attendance sheet for somebody working in healthcare. Source – I’m a nurse.
Honestly you just suck as a person if you are late like that all the time.
This person is a legendary role model. I aspire.
Does he go by jimmy?
Look like someone got a case of the Mondays
Perfectly natural.
Let me check my calendar.. oh wait that'll be a sick day for me..
How has that person still got a job
Tight
Ben Simmons if he had a regular job
Yeah, sick of that job!!
My attendance looks like this, I'm not late though. Just put a lot. Have had some bad health issues the past few years and thankfully FMLA exists, but even that's been its own shit show due to third party leave management.
Got into a little bit more of that masturbation before work...
Honestly depends on the work place. If you don’t work with shifts and you then start late and work late (or go a shorter lunchbreak) than this is fine in my opinion.
Gotta be a chef
This looks like me at my previous job. The job was 8-5 about an hour from my house, but I had to take it because of how well it paid and I figured my body would get used to the new sleep schedule after a couple weeks. Several months passed and I realized it wasn't getting any easier. It still felt nearly impossible to get up at 7 no matter how early I went to bed the night before. I did some research and found out I probably have delayed sleep phase. I wanted to get a proper diagnosis, but I couldn't afford it, nor could I wait that look since the mornings were taking a huge toll on me. I asked my boss several times for a 9-6 shift and it became very clear after awhile that his attitude towards my request had nothing to do with the job itself. I couldn't even get him to give an actual reason why he "couldn't do it" until the third time discussing it and the only one he could muster up was that the customer might need to call us at 8. Nobody ever called me that early in the entire year I worked there, so it just came off as an afterthought. The rest of his arguments just revolved around "being strong" and "good attitude". After about a year at the company, the mornings were becoming so painful that I started having suicidal ideations and had to quit the job for the sake of my own safety. I now make far less money and I'm barely scraping by but at least I'm still alive. Sometimes it's good to just believe and accommodate someone, even if it hurts your pride.
r/meirl
i was on time about as much as this person was late last year.
I had a job where we earned a sick day every month. Took it on the every single Friday after it logged. (much rebellious)
On time on 4/20
Cuz I'm calling out on a Monday! Tell them I got hit by a hyundai. You know, I got excuses in a spreadsheet. Ya boy got conditions that are deadly.
luck shaw average
Fuck this person. They might think it's just a "them" problem, but their work gets passed on to "us".