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How late is, well, late?
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| Lira |
I was actually surprised by this.
Yesterday was my pay day, and I received the money from the school principal (who is the boss of the lady that hired me, so she is my 2nd degree boss or something :p). She then complained saying that I was always late, and sometimes I arrived as late as 10 minutes.
Naturally, it does mean that, from now on, I must try to arrive as early as possible but, is this really considered "late" when you work in an office? I had never had this problem before... |
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| Beatflux |
| The ultra strict Walmart will let me come in 9 minutes and 59 seconds after I am scheduled to work. |
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| UWM |
| I can show up pretty much whenever I want on any given day as long as I get what needs to be done, done. |
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| THE_Chris |
| If you're supposed to start at nine, start at nine. Not ten past nine. |
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| Zoso |
I guess "technically" speaking, late is anything past the time you are supposed to start. Now, I wouldn't be an ass and say 8:00.01 (assuming you start at 8:00) is zomg you're late, but every work environment is different.
My favorite thing is when someone bitches about other employees being late when that person herself (in our case) is habitually late. |
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| Omega_M |
If you are expected to come in at say 9:00 AM, make sure to be there by atleast 8:55 AM. Nobody will complain. There is no generalization of how late is late. It's highly subjective. A minute before time is on time. But you never know how people will react if you are a minute late. Get to know your boss so that you have an idea of how late is late for her.
Our Department chair teaches a class which starts at 5:00 PM. He told us that if you think you cannot make it by 5:00, don't come even if you are late by a couple of minutes. Other professors are not so particular. They tolerate even if you come in half way through the lecture. They don't care. |
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| DigitalPhoenix |
| quote: | Originally posted by THE_Chris
If you're supposed to start at nine, start at nine. Not ten past nine. |
My boss lives by this rule, 1 minute late and I'm toast
therefore I get to work at least 10-5 minutes early |
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| Boomer187 |
| if you work in an office you should be 30 - 15 minutes early everyday. especially if you plan on moving up any positions. |
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| Ygrene |
Even though I don't work in an office, I am at my desk no later than 8am every morning. And when I have scheduled trainings in the field, my rule of thumb is to be there at least 20 minutes early. For me, late is not getting there 10 minutes ahead of time. There is typically a bit of set-up involved before my work begins.
Sometimes I even get up at 6am, send a few e-mails, and then go back to bed just so people think I am hitting the office early. :clown:
I will agree that the definition of 'late' will change depending on your environment. |
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| Ian |
| I showed up late every monday & wednesday to school by about 25 minutes so I didn't have to go into the religious-preaching-hell-on-earth assembly where we were expected to have 200 people standing perfectly still or singing hymns with the exception of the jehovah's guy & the islamic girl who got to hold their fingers in their ears. |
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| phuzzyfish12 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
I was actually surprised by this.
Yesterday was my pay day, and I received the money from the school principal (who is the boss of the lady that hired me, so she is my 2nd degree boss or something :p). She then complained saying that I was always late, and sometimes I arrived as late as 10 minutes.
Naturally, it does mean that, from now on, I must try to arrive as early as possible but, is this really considered "late" when you work in an office? I had never had this problem before... |
You answered your questions already....she thinks anything after the time you are scheduled to show up is LATE!!! and since she is your boss that's all you have to worry about. Doesn't matter if it isn't late at other companies or even departments at your job. |
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| inconspicuous |
Depending on how long of a trip it is (see: how much can go wrong), you should always be early. I usually figure at least half of the trip length, but no less than 20 minutes. So if it's an hour away, I leave at least & hour & a half early. If it's 10 minutes away, leave a half hour early.
Cutting it that close looks like procrastination, which people figure you carry over into your work. If you can't even plan ahead to get there on time, what's going to happen when you have real deadlines at work? |
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