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If it's shift work and someone is waiting on you then arrive so they can go home or start to work and a team its a big deal cause you're wasting someone elses time.
Yeah, but how many Americans are actually doing that kind of shift work anymore? I know it's not none, but I don't think we're worried about the shoe factory shutting down over this. Those factories already shut down, and managers in places like that don't hesitate to shitcan anyone chronically 10 minutes late as an example.
More than you'd think. Any facilities that need 24 hour coverage like medical,, care and of course corrections. All of which have in common the staff really don't want to spend an extra 10-20 minutes waiting for a 20s something to show up and take offense when called out. And in my experience these 20s somethings hate any reason for them to be kept late at work.
Aaaaahh, you're right. I totally didn't think about medical and care facilities. I was only thinking of factory-style shift work.
How does shift work not account for overwhelming an overwhelming majority of jobs? Customer service is all shift work. That includes everything with a store front or call center. It also includes a lot of workshops. From my understanding, that is the majority of jobs.
"Shift work" in this case is more like the type where someone has to do a specific handover to another human. Not just anything that isn't salaried work. So the meaning is more in the context of the Industrial Era 24-hour factory type of meaning, where it's coordinated that 1 entire group leaves and another punch in at the same time. It's just another meaning of the term.
Also, this is some clickbait garbage hating on Gen Z vs. noble brave smart Boomers with zero tolerance for tardiness - it's their take on a survey of 1,000 adults in the UK and completely in the context of working in an office.
It depends by the job entirely, and I've only once as a lone bartender needed the next person in order to leave, never any other customer service jobs. You mention call centers, and I've never seen one that required someone else to take your place so you can leave other than Pig Butchering camps where they may or may not kill you for not performing. Call centers typically let people log in and get in the queue taking calls. Even ones with under 10 people.
Retail. It's 100% on the companies for doing this, but cashiers, for example, usually have bare minimum staffing. If one cashier is late coming in, that probably delays someone's lunch or someone getting to go home on time.
It's not right, it's not everywhere, and in a lot of places when you show up doesn't/shouldn't matter. But people should be mindful of the other people they impact. Slack off all you want at work, I don't care unless it starts making more problems for me and the rest of the team.
Very true. I do not do "shift work". So I have no clue there.
Closest for me would be: being on time for meetings because of the same reason. Do not waste other peoples time.