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Late/Absent policy at your job

What is the late or absent policy at your job? Do you get in shit if you're late? Do your superiors expect a call if you're going to be late, or do you just show up late and say, "Sorry I'm late!"?

What about sick days, missing shifts, going home sick, etc?

Within reason, I arrive and leave whenever I feel like it. My boss is coo' like dat.

My sick leave and vacation leave is combined in what is called "comprehensive leave" and is accrued at a certain rate depending on how long you've been with the company.

they're super flexible about it at my job, as long as you're responsible and you don't abuse it.

i always call to let my supervisor know if i'm running late, even if i'm only running 5 minutes late. luckily it doesn't really matter, since our office is open from 7am-6pm every day, we can pretty much work whatever hours we want as long as we work a 40-hour week. for example, today is the 2nd day this week that i've come in 45 minutes later than i normally do (i usually get in at 9am), but i'll just end up working until 5:45 to make up for it.

sick days, going home sick, etc.. they're super awesome about that stuff too. we get up to 4 occurrences per year, and then after that you just have to provide a doctor's note if you're sick again.

i <3 my job.

I usually arrive 10 minutes late... but I also leave 10~15 minutes later than I should, so it's all right, I guesss

I can be absent whenever I need, as long as I tell my boss. I, for example, am going today to a seminar in São Paulo, and my boss didn't mind the fact that I'm going to be absent until Saturday.

The fact that I'm paid by the hour is certainly a reason why my job is not bad in that matter. If I don't work, I just don't get paid

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Originally posted by l�cid i <3 my job.

+1

I work from home and work however long i want with maybe 50 minutes of contact with my company / week. For example i'm in boxer-briefs currently, drinking coffee and intend to stay this way until approximately 10:00, at which point i will go downstairs and battle the mighty dungeon gladiators in Suikoden V.

I'd probably, say, in a given week, I probably do about 5 hours of real, actual work.

Whyyyy meeeeee Goooodddddddd, whyyyyyyyyyy?????

I make my own hours.

With regard to my employees... I'm pretty flexable, as long as they get their work done and we're meeting our obligations to our clients.

as long as i call in if im gonna be late my bosses dont really care as long its within reason

My work doesn't even care. I can get away with murder and they would be like " Oh, it was Tricia? awww she killed someone" I can't NOT come wihtout reason, obviously, I just call my boss and say " yap, I'm not coming in today.. see you tomorrow" If I'm going to be late I don't call, I don't have a job where I would need someone to cover my shift so I come in late sit down and start working.


I do the same with my assistant. If she's late she's late, no questions asked. If she's not coming in she just gives me a quick call.

I can show up anywhere between 8 and 10 as long as I finish what I need to get done on a given day unless I have meetings or procedures planned at a specific time. As far as not showing up, my PI is very flexible, sometimes even allowing me to take 1/2 days and not counting it against my sick days or vacation days.

Oh and I get 25 vacation days and 25 sick days a year, plus 12 paid holidays, not too bad!

unless you are coughing up blood, vomiting, or having explosive diarhea (sp?) you're expected to stay at work (i.e. no going home sick because of a headache or something simple like that).

as far as calling in sick, you better have the same items as above, or be in the hospital.

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Originally posted by tubularbills unless you are coughing up blood, vomiting, or having explosive diarhea (sp?) you're expected to stay at work (i.e. no going home sick because of a headache or something simple like that). as far as calling in sick, you better have the same items as above, or be in the hospital.

Heh yeah, pretty much the same for me.

also, we don't get sick days (i.e. you get paid same as if you had come into work).

and 30 days of leave a year

I just pencil in that I was on time and keep on truckin...Im my own boss.

they don't care


BUT take me for example ....

THe official work day is 8 to 12 14 to 18


I usually come in around 7.30 .... regurlaly work between noon and two ..... and I leave usually around 19


so if one day I'm late 3 hours they don't care ..... or if I randomly need to take a day off it's no biggie ( not that it isn't a big issue for our production at work ... but that's another matter ).


I get to leave, be late whenever I want but I make up for it big time with all these crazy ( unpaid ) extra hours I put in....

they DO care and i get fired relatively quickly if i fuck up. it's a point system-

1 point for being absent (but called in before shift)
.5 point for being late 4 hours or less (called in or not)
2 points for no call/no show

6 points and you're fired. no sick days, no excuses, that's what vacation is for, or so they say.

I am threatened with write-ups all the time, but my boss never follows through with them... yet.

More than 5 minutes late though, and someone is on my ass.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On More than 5 minutes late though, and someone is on my ass.

fuck we're supposed to be at our station by the time the bell rings, ready to work, so if we punch in even ten seconds late it's considered "late." half point. bunk shit.

That is excessively lame. I'd be looking for a new job, if I were you. Flexibility with management in most aspects of a position is one of the most important components of working, to me. It's practically on the same level as pay rate.

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Originally posted by tubularbills unless you are coughing up blood, vomiting, or having explosive diarhea (sp?) you're expected to stay at work (i.e. no going home sick because of a headache or something simple like that). as far as calling in sick, you better have the same items as above, or be in the hospital.

haha... that was definitely the truth...

i left work to go to the doctor one day b/c i had a 102 fever, this was only after telling my boss at 530am in person that i was sick... i had to tell him face to face and then it was his call to let me to go the doctor at 7am...

the Army doctor put me on 24hr quarters, but not before my boss made me MC a ceremony before 100 people and 3 Colonels... i felt special to get the rest of the afternoon off...(technically i was allowed to leave, but in my boss's eyes since i was there i might as well take one for the team and stay a bit)

broken colarbone and broken foot was just a 30min leave to get the doctor to write me a profile explaning why I wasn't allowed to do PT (physical training) as if each cast wasn't enough...

but yeah like Will said... 30 days paid vacation a year and whenever there is a federal holiday the military goes ahead and makes it a 4-day... so i guess that means like 40+ paid non-hoiday days off a year and there are also Passes which are days off that your boss allows that wont count against your given 30 days off... and i was able to use 10 of those this year... and those 30 days of regular leave do rollover..

both this year and last i took 60+ paid days off..(my days ON though this year though were 5am-7pm mon-fri and 5am-2pm sat, excluding the nights we had to sleep out in the field)

but that was then... pre-out of Army status...

with scheduled raises/promotions regardless of performance (pratically unless somebody died), free full health care, and extra pay for living expenses and rent,... 80% of the military get even extra pay each year for uniforms and for having kids/dependents...

I know i rambled on about military perks... all of it wasn't worth it... I'd rather go back to Iraq than be in the Army state-side...

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On That is excessively lame. I'd be looking for a new job, if I were you. Flexibility with management in most aspects of a position is one of the most important components of working, to me. It's practically on the same level as pay rate.

that's not such a bad idea now that you mention it. i've been laid off for the last three weeks too. hm. just gotta find something that pays as well as this one..

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Originally posted by UWM Oh and I get 25 vacation days and 25 sick days a year, plus 12 paid holidays, not too bad!

holy shit, that's like 3 months of paid time off (if you took all the sick days).

we only get 6 paid holidays, and 4 sick occurences (which basically means if you're sick for a week it only counts as 1 occurence, so you can do that 4 times per year if you need to).

i'm just happy that i get 15 days of vacation starting this October. yay for staying at the same job for 5 years. only thing that's been consistent in my life for that amount of time since i was a kid, lol.

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Originally posted by Omega_Blue that's not such a bad idea now that you mention it. i've been laid off for the last three weeks too. hm. just gotta find something that pays as well as this one..

It's so easy to fall into a submissive position at the workplace...I know all too well. Don't sell yourself short though - that's honestly what success means, to me at least. It's not really too important how much you make (within reason, of course) but whether you enjoy your job or not. On that note, people who say things like do what makes you happy in life really irk me, haha. Like, it's not so easy to land a great job that pertains to your exact interests in life - trying and all that is cool, but being content with the job you have is not such a terrible fate at all.

Not many people deserve to be stuck at a job that they absolutely loathe going to each day. You're likely not one of them. :P

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On It's so easy to fall into a submissive position at the workplace...I know all too well. Don't sell yourself short though - that's honestly what success means, to me at least. It's not really too important how much you make (within reason, of course) but whether you enjoy your job or not. On that note, people who say things like do what makes you happy in life really irk me, haha. Like, it's not so easy to land a great job that pertains to your exact interests in life - trying and all that is cool, but being content with the job you have is not such a terrible fate at all. Not many people deserve to be stuck at a job that they absolutely loathe going to each day. You're likely not one of them. :P

i don't like to bitch about my job because it seems to be the only thing i'm doing lately. anyways i'm in debt and i'm taking a semester off to get that shit taken care of. this job pays the most i've ever been paid before so i want to stick with it. HOWEVER, it takes me an hour to get to work, and i have to wake up at 4:30am every morning soo...

also, unlike 90% of you who posted in this thread, i don't work in a cubicle or whatever. factory work ftl. so no, i don't enjoy my job, but it's the only thing i have experience in (and is therefore hard to find a different, cleaner job). vicious cycle.

Ah, well if it's only a temporary thing, then that's different.

But like I said, don't sell yourself short! There's innumerable opportunities out there in the workplace for people who are actually capable of learning new things, as long as you are not afraid.

And I don't have a cubicle - I'm a concierge. I deal in fertile creature comforts and all that. :P

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