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

[Minnie_me]

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!

Your last line was really unnecessary. At my niece's and nephew's private school, they have had PLENTY of issues with teachers being unprofessional in a variety of ways. Public schools are not always inferior.

 

[Darcy03231]

I work in a small professional office - no time clocks. Everyone here is good about getting to work on time (or early) so if someone were late without calling in we'd be worried because that definitely is not the norm. We did have one employee that was habitually late. Needless to say she's not an employee any longer.

 

[CJMickeyMouse]

As long as the work gets done - I can come in and leave whenever I want.

But then again we own the business and DH is my boss.

Definitely has it's advantages!!

 

[HOGFAN]

Nothing, we have a 7 minute grace period.

 

[Goobergal99]

Before nothing... now we have Kronos and are counted late after one min, even though supposedly there is a grace period

I am never ever late... but some of the ppl coming from carther away have really been racing to get there on time

 

[MickeySP]

Nothing really happens except whoever I am relieving will be mad.

You try not to do that since the person you relieve can someday be your relief. And since we are 24/7/365 it happens alot.

 

[Disney Doll]

We have 5 minutes before or after to punch in/out to still be considered "legal".

My particular supervisor doesn't get crazy about late unless it becomes a habit. The you get a talking to, which, quite frankly, you deserve. Sorry...when you work, you have a responsibility to be there when you are supposed to most of the time. Of course, stuff happens, but not every day.

 

[JoyG]

If I get there 1 or 2 minutes late, the kids wait out in the hallway before entering the classroom.

If it happens more than once in a while, I'm sure I'd get an uncomfortable talk from my principal.

 

[PrincessKitty1]

I'm on salary now, so I can flex my time. I did punch a time clock at my last job (same employer), and we had a 7 minute grace period in both directions. If you clocked in at 7:08,AM you lost 15 minutes of pay, but you could make it up by clocking out at 7:38 PM.

However, on most patient care units (I work in a hospital),you were expected to be there on the dot or a few minutes before starting time in order to start report at exactly 7 AM, no excuses. So while you could be 7 minutes late without having pay docked, it was severely frowned upon.

 

[WDWBarb]

At my last job, if someone was late, they were glared at by the owner (sometimes for weeks at a time) and he would usually go fuss at that person's manager (I was a manager, so I know). It was VERY BAD for your career to be late, at all. In fact I often felt that "not early" was really "late."

That's why, for 10 years, I was never even once late. I almost always got there at least an hour early so that I couldn't possibly ever be late.

Where I work now, if I were even 15 minutes late, the worst that would happen is that someone would call me, worried that something happened to me (because old habits die hard and I still get to work an hour early each day!). It's way more laid back. And I'm MUCH happier.

 

[Sethsmom]

We have to be clocked in by 7:59am or we are considered late. We work 8-5. We are docked 15 minutes leave without pay and do not get our morning break. After a few times, you will get written up and it will count off on your evaluation.

There are no excuses. Wreck whatever. You should have left your house earlier. I drive the interstate into Bham everyday and I have been stuck in major delays. Sometimes it has taken me 2 hours for a 45 minute drive.

I try to leave my house by 7 everday but I refuse to leave earlier than that.

This is one of our many office policies that is just too harsh. Someone is going to get killed or die from a heart attack trying to get into work without getting written up.

 

[Barb D]

We have to work an average of 8 hours a day, and can make up time any time within the calendar month. Other than that, nobody really cares (unless there's a meeting or some specific reason you need to be there.) If you need to leave for any reason, you say c'ya and head out. If you're really late people start to worry and will call to make sure you're OK, but that's it. There are frequently people there late at night or on Saturday, either making up hours or because it's quieter.

 

[JVL1018]

I don't work, but I asked my husband and he said that technically if you are more than 10 minutes late for work you're supposed to call and then HR will send an email out to your group saying that you'll be 15 miniutes late due to traffic or whatever..in reality, no one calls unless it's like an hour late.

My husband mostly gets there early, sometimes right on time, sometimes late-but as long as your work is getting done no one cares.

He very very rarely leaves right on time, there are nights he is there until 11, 12 pm, his latest so far this year has been 3:30am, so if they start nitpicking if he comes in at 8:33 instead of 8:30 he'd laugh. He works his 40 hours and then some each week, and doesn't get OT.
His boss gets there half an hour late every day. But also stays later than most.
He's an accountant for a fund management group and does not deal with actual customers.


I worked at a bank prior to having children and you really couldn't be too late because you have customers waiting for you. We were *supposed* to be there at 8:30 to open at 9, which I thought was dumb because how much time do you need in the morning to open a safe, get out a cash drawer and turn on the computer?
We all used to come in at 8:45 instead and we were always ready to open the doors at 9.
I was paid per hour and always filled in my time sheet to the nearest 15 minute increment, as we were told to do.

 

[jimmalru80]

I work for the best company on earth. And NOTHING is that important. If you are a few minutes late, the world will not come to an end. Let's talk and see what we can do. No executions, no humiliations. But then, very few of our people are ever late. We are flexible.

 

[Papa Deuce]

This is a new policy at my job ( I'm the OP ).... and I have decided that if I am early, which I usually am, and they need something done before I am officially on the clock, they have 2 choices.... pay me 1/4 hour of OT, or I won't be doing it.

At least once, but usually twice a week, people are asking me to do things before I am on the clock. I have always done it. Never complained, but this new policy just put an end to all of that.

 

[Metro West]

We have 5 minutes before or after to punch in/out to still be considered "legal".

Same here.

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

Where I use to work if you were late just one minute and this occurred more that three times you would not get you next wage increase. We use to get a .75 an hour wage increase every six months.

 

[Tiggerlover91]

Because I'm always SUPER early, nothing is said to me the times I show up late, which still in itself is very rare.

 

[Pin Wizard]

Now that the place I work for doesn't make a comment about it, I'm almost always on time. Actually, I've been late two times in the past two years! One was this past week. I was one minute late. LOL! That's because they are now strict about not working OT. I was trying to get in a bit later than usual. I'm always in 1/4 hour early. Now that there's no OT, what a pain to stand in the hallway waiting until the clock changes at 6:53 a.m. Believe me, they get a lot more "free" time out of me! Seven minutes in the morning almost every day. I think they owe me! That's usually 35 minutes a week they get out of me that I don't get paid extra for.

 

[tonilea]

Nothing happened to me. Apparently I am irreplacable. I quit in January and they are still asking me to come back! lol

Of course, I am not the kind of person who is late very often. At a previous job, I had a flat on my jeep and couldn't get the jack out from under the hood (I think they put it in with an air wrench), and my supervisor called the police because I was "missing".