tardiness - Democratic Underground

MissMillie

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Tue Jul-22-08 12:40 PM
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Poll question: tardiness

pretend you're a supervisor (or be the supervisor that you are)

Ok, so I know that people are supposed to get to work on time... but doesn't it happen that every now and then something comes up?

So at what point does the occasional mishap turn into habitual tardiness?

What would you consider to be a tardiness problem from an employee?

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La Lioness Priyanka

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Tue Jul-22-08 12:41 PM
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1. more than 10 mins late everyday

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kick-ass-bob

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Tue Jul-22-08 12:41 PM
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2. 1st vote.

Edited on Tue Jul-22-08 12:42 PM by kick-ass-bob

And, yeah. ^ what she said.

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mainegreen

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Tue Jul-22-08 12:42 PM
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3. We really don't have set hours around here.

Edited on Tue Jul-22-08 12:43 PM by mainegreen

Show up within an hour or so of when work starts. If you show up late, either work through lunch, or go home late. Make up the time, that's what's important here.

Edited to add: I only once had to bring up working hours because the person showed up 1 1/2 hours late all the time AND left early.
Not OK.

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skygazer

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Tue Jul-22-08 01:01 PM
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4. Depends on the job

If your lateness directly affects the people you work with, then five minutes or more 3 times a week (ballpark figure).

I work at a grocery store - if a checker is habitually late, it screws up all the other checkers. I, on the other hand, run my own department so if I'm late (which rarely happens anyway) it only affects me.

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Iggo

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Tue Jul-22-08 02:50 PM
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5. Put in yer 8 hrs.

That's the way we do it around here. A few (1-29) minutes late? Work a few minutes later. No big deal. Half hour late? Call in to let people know, then make up the time at the end of the day. An hour late? Hmmm...don't make a habit of it, buddy-boy.

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Crazy Dave

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Tue Jul-22-08 02:57 PM
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6. A couple of times a week

If the rest of the people, with and without kids and driving through the same traffic as everyone else, there better be a good excuse but over the past 26 years I've used hundreds of excuses, then later on in life I got to hear every one of them all over again.

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Redstone

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Tue Jul-22-08 03:06 PM
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7. When I was a manager, it wasn't a big deal to me. As long as my people were there

when the customers expected them to be, I wasn't going to make a big deal about five or ten minutes in the morning.

Yeah, I know, pretty sloppy management style. But hey, I grew that company from $2.5 million in annual sales to $18 million in annual sales in 11 years, through two ass-kickers of recessions, so I must have been doing something right.

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BOSSHOG

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Tue Jul-22-08 03:07 PM
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8. WHEN YOU ARE ON TIME YOU ARE LATE

That was my philosophy in the Navy. If we started work at 0700 then we started work at 0700, we didn't show up to work at 0700. My "philosophy" was "shared" with Young Sailors upon their indoctrination. If you let tardiness slide too many times you have no leg to stand on when attempting corrective action.

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