If you get to work 1 or 2 minutes late.....

[Papa Deuce]

what happens at your place of employment?

We don't get docked, but we must stay that many minutes longer....

 

[Loverly]

WOW....that is amazing.

What if you are three or maybe four minutes late?

 

[Papa Deuce]

WOW....that is amazing.

What if you are three or maybe four minutes late?

You stay 3 -4 minutes longer.

 

[Stacerita]

Im exempt, so nothing happens. But I am here early almost every day, and stay past closing all the time.

For those non exempt....it is expected that they stay that extra time. If they are more than 7 minutes late, they are docked. If its a habitual thing, they are counciled and such.

 

[froggygrrrl]

Nothing happens where I work. And thank gosh for that because I am habitually 5 minutes late! I have the best intentions in the world to get to work on time, but I just can't do it. So far nobody has ever said a word to me about it.

 

[rentayenta]

Nothing happens. Unless I have a family meeting scheduled first thing in the morning, I arrive on my time.

 

[aprilgail2]

Well we have a grace period- we work 8-4 but you are not offically late until 8:07- if you get there after that you are docked and you get 4 points- get 30 points in a year and you get 2 weeks unpaid in the street- next time 4 weeks unpaid in the street, next time 6 months unpaid in the street.

 

[creativeamanda]

At exactly 7:45 am, the time in sheet is picked up. If we come in after that time, we must go to the building adminsitrator to sign in. Three late signins=conference. Six=mark in file. More than that=docked day.

 

[Microcell]

Then I am a complete mess... I work 3 feet from my bed!

I only get paid for what I work, so if I was a couple of minutes late I would have to fill out my timesheet to reflect that. They could pull keystrokes at any time, so I just make sure if I am a minute late or something that I put the time I started.

 

[dahirsh]

Everyone panics. Since I'm never late, there must be something wrong. OK Panic may be too strong a word but they seriously worry about what happened to me if I'm a few minutes late and haven't called.

 

[TomLovesBecky]

what happens at your place of employment?

We don't get docked, but we must stay that many minutes longer....

Oh I'm so glad you posted this, I want to vent about someone at my job!!!!!! LOL Well anyway, I had just started this job (the one I have now) and got there 2 yes TWO minutes late the first day because I had trouble finding the place, the interview was at a different location so I had never been to the building before at all. Well the woman who was leaving as I arrived (shift work) made me sign a late slip for being 2 minutes late by her watch! According to my watch I was exactly on time but no matter, she insisted it was a Big Deal and wrote me up anyway. She is not my boss keep in mind, just someone on the same exact level as me. So I had to sign the slip, I wrote my reason for being "late" and she put it in a drawer of the desk. Well guess who relieved me the next day, it was the same lady and she was 1 minute late, yes ONE and she asked if I needed help finding the form to write her up!!! I said no, I refuse to do that, it's stupid, and until a supervisor tells me I have to do it, I won't. She had this look on her face like she had just killed someone because she was 1 minute late. I know health care is important but give me a break, we do not work emergency/trauma so it's very routine stuff, nothing life threatening anyway. 10 minutes I could see but ONE??? That's crazy. By the way I never heard anything from anyone about the 2 minutes late my first day and a LONG time later I found the late slip in the drawer while looking for another form. I guess she never turned it in?? So I just threw it away, it had been a long time and obviously no one else cared I was 2 minutes late months ago! LOL

 

[ChrizJen]

I make my own schedule, so for me, there's really no such thing as late. But for those who have to be there at a particular time, there is a system of "occurrences". They are given a half occurrence for each day they are late (even 1 or 2 minutes), and a full occurrence for each absence. At 6 occurrences, they get a verbal warning. At 7, it's a written warning, and at 8 it's termination.

 

[chell]

Lately I've been anywhere from 30 - 45 minutes late every day. Well when I started I never was given exact hours anyway. People come and go whenever. No one ever notices me anyway.

 

[Buckalew11]

Nothing happens. But, if I was to start to late, I'd be behind all day. Doesn't everyone love waiting for their hairdresser? not!

 

[chell]

Then I am a complete mess... I work 3 feet from my bed!

I only get paid for what I work, so if I was a couple of minutes late I would have to fill out my timesheet to reflect that. They could pull keystrokes at any time, so I just make sure if I am a minute late or something that I put the time I started.

How on earth did you get lucky enough to get a job like that? I want to work from home so bad, there just aren't opportunities in my area. **sigh**

 

[Cool-Beans]

I once worked for a horrid little man. Only hired women in his office because men wouldn't tolerate him. He yelled and screamed and threw things at people. He threw half a box of computer paper at one girl. Once threw a gel pad at me...and it wasn't even ME he was mad at - he was just mad. Oh, he was something else.

He once yelled at me for being late coming back from lunch. We were given 30 minutes. The time card showed 31 minutes. Oh, the horror.

Some people are just jerks.

I don't really take a lunch break these days. I might sit down for 10 minutes and eat if I have time, but there really isn't time for a whole lunch. I punch out, work through the lunch and punch back in. If I forget to punch back in, which I've been known to do, my boss gets it fixed. So, no issues with being gone too long.

 

[pr surfer]

I'm on island time.

If I get to work 1 or 2 minutes late, I'm the first one in.

 

[RNMOM]

We were "counseled" if we were late more than three times and if it continued, you were terminated. This could and DID happen for even 1-2 minutes. Believe me, other people would be watching too.

 

[Aimeedyan]

I don't have set hours - I'm free to do whatever I need to do in order to get my job done.

 

[Luv'sTink]

If DH is one minute late he loses $50 of his bonus bucks. 7 minutes and they dock his pay for 15 minutes. Works the other way also, if he works 7 minutes into the next hour he gets paid for 15.