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

[DISUNC]

Nutin happens, the world still goes round & round!

 

[hlbtimes2]

Our payroll is done in 1/10ths of the hour. So, if we are up to 6 minutes late we are docked .10 hours of pay. What sucks is, that if we stay 2-3 minutes late we dont get an extra .10 hour of pay! Whatever, they are generous in enough other areas that I dont complain. Nothing is said if we are just a little late now and then. I think I have been less then 5 minutes late 6-8 times in the last year. If it is happening often, like one girl that is late more days then not, they will talk to you about it. The girl I replaced was either late or gone over 30 times in the 4 months she was employed by them.

 

[Tinkerbelle'sMOM]

We don't get docked until 6 minutes after, but even one minute late goes in as a tardy and you can be terminated if you have 15 in one month.

 

[#1hockeymom]

I'm a teacher and always early. I was on time once, and felt very late. Turns out I was one of the five teachers there. Big storm that night and 475 was shut down, with me on it! <----that is what put me so far behind. We (teachers) slowly trickled in, with others watching the classrooms of missing coworkers. We didn't even make count that day there were so many kids absent.

Since I live so far from school I purposely leave my house to arrive an hour early. I get tons done in the silence of the school, and if an emergency crops up like it did that day I'm usually still on time.


***no, I am NOT a morning person, it just works out better this way!***

 

[TrixieBel]

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

WOW
I'm amazed at how many adults are working in jobs where the employers treat them like children! I work for a global company that has employees in the thousands. We don't have time-cards and don't have to clock-in.

Our company is very "big" in providing a flexible workplace, with policies in place that make it very clear that it is a manager's responsibility to ensure that their employees are given the opportunity of flexi-hours if needed. If anyone is a few minutes late nobody worries about it - everyone knows that if you're late you just make-up the time at some point. If you want to take time off to go to an appointment (dentist, dr, etc) we just have to let our manager know ahead of time, and then let her know when we've made up the time.

No wonder our company makes it into the lists of "best companies" to work for nearly every year...

This is very normal here in Australia and the only industries where people would still "clock in" are in the manufacturing/mining areas...

 

[Goobergal99]

WOW
I'm amazed at how many adults are working in jobs where the employers treat them like children! I work for a global company that has employees in the thousands. We don't have time-cards and don't have to clock-in.

Our company is very "big" in providing a flexible workplace, with policies in place that make it very clear that it is a manager's responsibility to ensure that their employees are given the opportunity of flexi-hours if needed. If anyone is a few minutes late nobody worries about it - everyone knows that if you're late you just make-up the time at some point. If you want to take time off to go to an appointment (dentist, dr, etc) we just have to let our manager know ahead of time, and then let her know when we've made up the time.

No wonder our company makes it into the lists of "best companies" to work for nearly every year...

This is very normal here in Australia and the only industries where people would still "clock in" are in the manufacturing/mining areas...

Yea... As a professional nurse, I am pretty insulted that I have to swipe a time clock as well... it's pretty insulting and they are the ones losing anyway... Why? well everytime we stay over now because a pt is going bad we are getting paid for the time we stay. In the past we would get paid what we were scheduled to be paid and most people didn't make a big deal out of it even if they were there until 8p instead of 7. Not anymore! We are getting out moneys worth now

 

[Mom2Nick]

WOW
I'm amazed at how many adults are working in jobs where the employers treat them like children! I work for a global company that has employees in the thousands. We don't have time-cards and don't have to clock-in.

Our company is very "big" in providing a flexible workplace, with policies in place that make it very clear that it is a manager's responsibility to ensure that their employees are given the opportunity of flexi-hours if needed. If anyone is a few minutes late nobody worries about it - everyone knows that if you're late you just make-up the time at some point. If you want to take time off to go to an appointment (dentist, dr, etc) we just have to let our manager know ahead of time, and then let her know when we've made up the time.

No wonder our company makes it into the lists of "best companies" to work for nearly every year...

This is very normal here in Australia and the only industries where people would still "clock in" are in the manufacturing/mining areas...

They're not treated like children and since I mentioned the production line doesn't that tell you we are a manufacturing company?

 

[Disney Doll]

Yea... As a professional nurse, I am pretty insulted that I have to swipe a time clock as well... it's pretty insulting and they are the ones losing anyway... Why? well everytime we stay over now because a pt is going bad we are getting paid for the time we stay. In the past we would get paid what we were scheduled to be paid and most people didn't make a big deal out of it even if they were there until 8p instead of 7. Not anymore! We are getting out moneys worth now

I'm a nurse as well.

It doesn't really bother me to punch in because I am quite sure that if we didn't punch in there would be people who would be habitually late, and with change of shift report and all, the nurse from the off-going shift has to give report to the nurse from the on-coming shift. I could imagine working nights when all you want to do at 7AM is go home and you have to wait for Suzy Snowflake because her hair didn't come out right the first time and she had to redo it so OF COURSE she'd be late.

Human nature is what it is. Ours is not a "as long as the work get done they don't care" type of job, unfortunately.

And, as you pointed out, then I get paid for what I actually work, instead of getting paid a salary and being "expected" to stay for as long as it takes to get the job done.

 

[Goobergal99]

I'm a nurse as well.

It doesn't really bother me to punch in because I am quite sure that if we didn't punch in there would be people who would be habitually late, and with change of shift report and all, the nurse from the off-going shift has to give report to the nurse from the on-coming shift. I could imagine working nights when all you want to do at 7AM is go home and you have to wait for Suzy Snowflake because her hair didn't come out right the first time and she had to redo it so OF COURSE she'd be late.

Human nature is what it is. Ours is not a "as long as the work get done they don't care" type of job, unfortunately.

And, as you pointed out, then I get paid for what I actually work, instead of getting paid a salary and being "expected" to stay for as long as it takes to get the job done.

I too have issues with waiting for the day nurse to come in and I am still sitting there waiting... however it still seems to undermine the profession when you are expected to clock in and out. Most of my colleagues are pretty respectful about being on time, however being threatned with corrective action for being 2 minutes late is frustrating despite the fact that I am never late... the stress of it makes me mad

I have alot of issues with nursing in general though, even nursing unions are weak and unfortuantely we are still treated like blue collar workers... But I am getting of topic now so I will save my thoughts for another thread

 

[Planogirl]

I tend to work longer hours and give more time if the company is more easy-going about time. If I have to clock in or Management fusses a lot about being a minute late, I work the expected time and nothing else. It's a trade-off for me.