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Betty can show up ‘on time’ and spend 40 min making coffee and shit talking with her neighbors, but I show up 10 min late and start working right away but I’m the bad employee somehow.

I can see it mattering if it's shift work and someone else has to stay late. If it's office work? Nah. Doesn't matter.

Keep pretending to pay a fair wage and I'll pretend to give a shit about being on time.

Stay late 10 minutes: that's as good as leaving on time. I can't be expected to pay you more.

Arrive 10 minutes late: how could you? 10 minutes of my time is an eternity!

Like most statements about work, it really depends on the job.

For shift work without overlapping shifts, being late keeps someone else on duty after their shift is up.

But if you're working an office gig and your work is getting done, it's fine. There's a reason I don't schedule any meetings within an hour of the start or end of the day.

Really depends what you are 10 minutes late for. A meeting with other participants, ok if your role is to sit and listen. Not OK if people are waiting for you to start. It's not OK to be late to relieve a co worker either

If you have a meeting first thing, don't.

So many well-intentioned posts in here are licking the boot. Traffic happens. IBS happens. Children emergencies happen. The company should shoulder the cost of contingencies to account for natural human fluctuation. If the job is mission critical, why are you demanding humans be robots?

10 mins late to an office job where they get their 10m back, AOK.

10 mins late to cashier/sales gig where you're relieving someone else, not great.

10 mins late to a meeting is bad

10 mins late to class is bad.

Do they minder if i stay longer? No? Then why complain when I'm late?

Its about the whole picture, am I always late? Is my work done on time and well executed ?

If so... WHO CARES ABOUT THE TIME OR PLACE I DO THAT WORK IN????

I recently did an essay on intergenerational work ethics for uni this semester. Basically, every generation except for Boomers don't care about being on time when compared to giving quality output.

It definitely depends on the job. I work in TV and live events. If your late you either miss the pre production meeting, or we all have to wait for you to start. If your later than that you are holding the team up and making people work harder to be ready by on-air time.

You ever ran late to a college class because you had to stay longer than scheduled at your shitty retail job to cover your perpetually late coworker who was supposed to relieve you?

Sometimes running 10 minutes late is no big deal, but sometimes it is. It becomes a problem the moment it causes someone else problems.

Gen X reporting.

Be like Gandalf. Fuck all that other noise.

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Bosses seem to think being on time means being 15 minutes early.

Thoses bosses can go right to hell. You want me working 15 minutes early, you better begin paying me 15 minutes early. I'm not your friend. We have a transaction going between us; I provide specific work between a specific period of time, and you give me money.

I have worked jobs that would dock you 15 minutes if you clocked in even 1 minute late, as a result everyone was always 15 minutes late. If you aren't getting paid then you shouldn't be working either. It's stupid policies that lead to this sort of thing, don't blame the employees for the dumb shit admin does.

Depending on the work, I disagree.

I work on a hangar deck supervising aircraft maintenance. At each shift change, all toolboxes are inventoried and all tools are accounted for. If people regularly show up late, either the few who do show up on time are always responsible for doing the tool inventories (or any other shift change items) or the previous shift ends up having to stay later, which is just disrespectful to them and their time.

Where my wife works, the clinic opens at 8 and the shift starts at 8 for all but the opener, so if her coworkers don't show up at 8, she's having to manage the patients by herself. On occasion for special circumstances, that's understandable. But as a general "meh, 10 minutes late is just as good," definitely not.

Basically, if tasks are expected to be done specifically at the beginning of your shift, being late is unacceptable.

Unless it's shift work, yeah. What's the problem otherwise?

Mid-millenial, elder millennial for a boss. Start time within half an hour of listed time is accepted practice. Things get done on time, nobody complains about staying ten or fifteen extra to properly wrap up a task. It's very refreshing after years of the boomer song and dance.

There is nothing that can happen at my job that, if not done quickly, will have a real negative impact on a human being. This does not stop my coworkers from acting like the sky is falling if something is delayed by a few days.

I wasn't going to do anything productive in that first 10 minutes anyway, so...

Depends on the job

Trucks leave at 7:15, you're either on one or not working today.

Depends on what your job is, if it's shift based timing is an issue. 9-5? As long as everything gets done and people xan reach you who gives a fuck

I'm a millennial and I show up an hour and a half late and I think it's fine. I DO put all my hours in so I leave later but whatever.

Also, just get some serious dirt on your piece of shit boss and you're golden. Fuck em'.

User “food safety isn’t important” is right. /s

I used to work retail where if I showed up on time, I was late and had customers waiting outside the store.

Then I finally got a desk job and showed up 5 minutes early the first day and had to wait for 15 minutes outside. I then quickly realized most people don't show up till 8:20-8:45. So that's my start time now.

Okay kids, this is what we call, micro management leading to a hostile work environment.

I don't think I've worked for a company that gave a shit if I was 10 minutes late.

One company had a time clock that only kept time records to one decimal place of an hour. The clock literally couldn't differentiate between someone clocking in 5 minutes early, or 5 minutes late.

Anyone who cares about how trivially late you are, isn't someone worthy of your labor.