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

[Mickeyluver37]

I'm amazed at all of these responses. Do people really count every little minute? Are these profesional environments?


At my (old) office, we didn't clock in and out, you just had to put in your hours. Dh's office is the same way. Hours are 8:30-5:30. If you're not there by 9:45, people might question it, but other than that, get your work done and no one cares.

 

[JR6ooo4]

Nothing. Except I do not have to punch in the alarm code... since someone is aleady there.

It is good to be the president!

Mikeeee

 

[Lassie Lynne]

Thankfully for me, my job is whenever I get there (between 9-6) and finish the work needed, so traffic doesn't bother me anymore and if I want to stop for breakfast...hey sounds like a good idea.....I might. But I do usually have a kinda schedule that I like, and stick to it, unless I get up a little early or sleep in an extra hour.

 

[NMAmy]

I'm almost always early so if I'm late, they know to check the voicemail because I've called to tell them what is going on. We don't really keep track of who is a few minutes late because all of us will stay late or come in early if needed. I haven't clocked in for a job in probably 20 years.

We also work in an area where there has been constant construction and parking issues this summer. I cut staff a bit of slack because the route one uses to get to work can change from day to day and with all the one way and closed streets, it can be a bit tricky to try to figure out just how to get there. A street that was open yesterday could quite possibly be closed today. It's been a crazy summer with construction in our area.

 

[Aliceacc]

I'm a teacher. If I'm not in my homeroom when it needs to be open, there will be 40 high school freshmen standing outside in the hallway. So, if at all possible, I need to let them know if I'm caught in traffic or something.

That said, nothing "happens" afterwards. Someone without a homeroom would cover mine until I got there, but there would be no consequences for me for being late.

(I'm one of those psychotically early people anyway, and I live 12 minutes from school if I make the lights. In 22 years of teaching, I've never had to call in late.)

If someone was habitually late, I would imagine the subject would come up at or before the year end review.

 

[ICF]

I work in an office setting and we dont have to clock in, and nobody is anal enough to pay attention if you get there a few minutes early or late each day.

 

[believe]

We don't have a time clock. We have a flex work schedule. Some individuals start at 6am and some at 9am, core hours are 9-3. I also work 1 day a week at home, some work 50% at home. We are expected to meet the business needs and work our 40hrs a week. They do like us to do our best to keep the same schedule each week. In my group nothing happens. Other groups may be more concerned. All depends on the manager. Overall the company believes in work/life balance so they are flexible.

 

[cccm]

Nothing happens......except if you are habitually late and it impacts others.

Lady that used to work for me lived the closest and she was always 45 minutes late for work. UGH! After a couple of missed calls, which of course came to me, we discussed it. She now has a different supervisor and is now only 20 minutes late each day.

Everyone in the company can see what time you came in, if you are out sick, vacation, leave. Everything is open, including email.

 

[polyfan]

We have a secretary that gets her thrills from highlighting the time we sign in. You can be walking in the door with her looking at you as the bell rings and she will be highlighting your name! I guess that makes her day to be able to highlight a teachers name.

 

[Galahad]

Salaried I.T. here. We have flex time. You are expected to put in 8 hours of work each day (not 8 hours including lunch). You are expected to arive no later that 9:00 and leave no earlier than 3:00 (so it's 6:00 to 3:00 all the way to 9:00 to 6:00). But most I.T. folks here work 10 hours a day (so they are here 11 hours a day or so with lunch). We are also expected to work nights or weekends when necessary so getting your "40 hours" in is pretty easy......

 

[KatheeME]

We have an honor system and keep our timecards online. We are only asked to fill them in daily. I wish we had a time clock! Only because we have those that are always 15-30 minutes late and never stay late to make up the time! I work in a large pediatric specialty practice. We are in 4 different suites with our building and management is in a different suite so nothing is ever really about it all. If we are late, we are expected to make it up at the end of the day or within the same week.

Kathee

 

[Mom2Nick]

I'm amazed at all of these responses. Do people really count every little minute? Are these profesional environments?

Some do - when you have over 300 employees you have to have rules and you have to apply them equally.

For hourly workers we pay in 15 minute increments. If you are 1 minute late you are docked 15 minutes. If you work one minute over you are paid for 15 minutes. If you have worked all your 40 hours and your extra minute is overtime it must be approved though. 1 man missing when you start the full production line for the morning is a huge issue and it holds everybody up.

Salary workers don't punch in but you must work 40 hours and we have set start times. We don't care about a minute here and there but more than 15 minutes late on a regular basis will be an issue and it will be addressed.

 

[disney1990]

Well, this is the DIS board. My DD was on the college intern program at Disney World. She was not allowed to be even 1 minute late or she was in trouble.

She has since left. A while back she called her employer to tell them that she was going to be late. She arrived 10 minutes late and he said, "I thought you said you were going to be late."

Some places a minute is a big deal and some places 10 minutes is not.

I guess we all take the good with the bad.

At my place of work, I am the first person to come in, in the moring. If I am 5 minutes late, nobody notices because nobody is there.

 

[Minnie_me]

The only time I've ever been late, in over 20 years of teaching, is when my bathroom caught on fire! I'm habitually early, and now that I take my older DD to the middle school before going to work, I'm there at least 30 minutes before we're required to be there.

Our principal is very understanding about lateness. She knows that there's not one teacher in our building who comes late and leaves early every day. She knows that we all put in our hours. There are a couple of teachers who are at least 20 minutes late almost every day........but they also stay until 5:00 almost every day.

(oh - I need to add that we are required to be at school 1 hour before the kids arrive -- so I'm not talking about teachers who aren't in their classrooms when the kids arrive - LOL!!)

 

[aprilgail2]

(oh - I need to add that we are required to be at school 1 hour before the kids arrive -- so I'm not talking about teachers who aren't in their classrooms when the kids arrive - LOL!!)

You have to be in the school an hour before the kids? That is not how they are here- her teacher last year used a neighbor of mine to babysit and as I was walking home from the bus stop in the morning she would be running her kids into the sitters house so she got to the school as the buses were pulling up and she would beat the bus home to pick up her kids, we would wave to her on our way home from the bus stop as she was driving away with her kids. I don't think there is any set rule on that here, some teachers get there early and some run in last minute, some stay until 4:00 (school ends at 3:20 and when I run in after work at 4:00 to pick up something my daughter forgets from her classroom the last of the teachers are leaving) and some leave as the buses are pulling away. As long as they are there when school starts and the kids walk in I don't think they should be considered late.

 

[Minnie_me]

You have to be in the school an hour before the kids? That is not how they are here- her teacher last year used a neighbor of mine to babysit and as I was walking home from the bus stop in the morning she would be running her kids into the sitters house so she got to the school as the buses were pulling up and she would beat the bus home to pick up her kids, we would wave to her on our way home from the bus stop as she was driving away with her kids. I don't think there is any set rule on that here, some teachers get there early and some run in last minute, some stay until 4:00 (school ends at 3:20 and when I run in after work at 4:00 to pick up something my daughter forgets from her classroom the last of the teachers are leaving) and some leave as the buses are pulling away. As long as they are there when school starts and the kids walk in I don't think they should be considered late.

Yeah, every school is different. Our set hours are 8:00 - 3:30. The kids are there from 8:55 - 3:20. Works for me!

 

[ericamanda01]

I don't understand being late to work. I personally find it rude. I use to work with a woman who was at least 5 minutes late every day and she didn't see the problem. She said it didn't matter because the bank wasn't open yet. So one day our manager figured it out and by her being 5 minuets late every day, 5 days a week for 50 week ( 2 weeks for vacation) she was paid for 20 hours she didn't work. I am sorry but that sucks. Her attitude showed a lack of commitment for her job and disrespect for her fellow coworkers. If she knows she's going to be late she needs to leave her house earlier. Employer's don't give out schedules as a suggestion. And yes she was let go because of her constant tardiness.

 

[Aliceacc]

AGain, I'm psychotic about being early for everything, so I'm talking about other people here.

I can understand the occasional lateness. For example, one day in April or May, the Long Beach Bridge got stuck in the "UP" position for about an hour during the morning rush hour. Any teacher coming from that area was stuck in bumper to bumper traffic with nowhere to go. So we just covered for the people coming from the Long Beach area-- no big deal, and not something that could be predicted.

Perpetual lateness is another subject, but it's not my problem.

As to teacher's hours: In our building, we have to sign in by 7:50 am. The warning bell for homeroom rings 15 minutes later, and homeroom starts at 8:10. We're required to be in school 15 minutes after school ends (unless we get permission) for extra help.

 

[MM27]

we must sign in by 8:40 and then pick our students up at 8:45. At 8:41 the secretary takes the sign in sheet and highlights next to every person that did not sign in yet. We can be written up at the discretion of the principal for lateness.

 

[spima3]

In our district, it's all pretty iffy with the expectations. One school here there are always a few teachers there by 8:00 am when the first busses start arriving, but if you missed a pick-up time, you would be greeted with barely concealed rage, as the school is a ghost town 5 minutes after the kids let out.
The current school my younger kids are in, the teachers are usually coming in with the students. The one year, the bell rang and no one could go in because no one was there to unlock the doors! Finally someone came who could open the doors, but it was already past the last bell. And my son got marked tardy for that day!

Public schools-----always an adventure!