Staff lateness - and blaming traffic.
Discussion
I start at 9am and live aprox 10 miles from my work.
I leave my house at 8.05am knowing that the road I travel can and does have the odd delay.
I usually get into work around 8.30am, make a cuppa, Sort out my run and wait on my helper turning up.
If he arrives before 8.45 he can have a cuppa and wake himself up.....But if he arrives after 9.05am he knows I am away on the van without him.
He has been late only once and got sent home because I had left and there was no other work for him to do.
I leave my house at 8.05am knowing that the road I travel can and does have the odd delay.
I usually get into work around 8.30am, make a cuppa, Sort out my run and wait on my helper turning up.
If he arrives before 8.45 he can have a cuppa and wake himself up.....But if he arrives after 9.05am he knows I am away on the van without him.
He has been late only once and got sent home because I had left and there was no other work for him to do.
mandos_01 said:
red_slr said:
Back in the day when on training courses as a young whipper snapper you had to sing a song if you were late. If several turned up late the rest had to do a dance whilst the last one in sang.
Imagine doing that now. Snowflakes would be straight to the daily mail!
I had to sing "A Whole New World" from Aladdin when I turned up late on the last day of a 4 day course after we'd all been out on the lash the night before.Imagine doing that now. Snowflakes would be straight to the daily mail!
That was 6 months ago!
I hope its on YouTube somewhere
My old job was basically 9-5, I would sometimes be late in, but was often last out and would always stay late if asked to do so in times we were busy. My boss would still complain if I was a couple minutes late in the mornings though, even though it had zero impact on anything.
I think it depends on the situation, if it affects deadlines or anything then fair enough to complain, but otherwise as long as time is made up later then no big deal. Complaining all the time wont win you any favours if/when you need someone to stay later than normal to help out with something urgent.
Thankfully where I work now we have flexi time, I can turn up anytime of the day between 6am and 4pm (Latest time to finish work is 8pm) as long as we do 4 hours minimum each day (3 on a friday) We have a set number of hours to do by the end of the month and as long as this is met then its all good.
We also get 2 home office days a month which is a nice addon.
Much better!
I think it depends on the situation, if it affects deadlines or anything then fair enough to complain, but otherwise as long as time is made up later then no big deal. Complaining all the time wont win you any favours if/when you need someone to stay later than normal to help out with something urgent.
Thankfully where I work now we have flexi time, I can turn up anytime of the day between 6am and 4pm (Latest time to finish work is 8pm) as long as we do 4 hours minimum each day (3 on a friday) We have a set number of hours to do by the end of the month and as long as this is met then its all good.
We also get 2 home office days a month which is a nice addon.
Much better!
My current commute is 65 miles from Canterbury to Essex which usually takes 1hr 30mins on average but can be anywhere between 1hr 15mins to 2hr 15mins depending on how bad the A2/M25/Dartford Crossing is.
My standard hours were always 8:30-5 but when I moved further away I just had a word with my line manager saying I'd be leaving at 6:30 each morning aiming more for 8-4:30 which he didn't have a problem with. Gives me a bit of slippage so even if there is a bad accident or road closure I'm very rarely clocking in later than 8:30 anyway.
As long as the hours for the week add up as they should then I think it's good to have a bit of flexibility, obviously depending on the type of job as discussed.
My standard hours were always 8:30-5 but when I moved further away I just had a word with my line manager saying I'd be leaving at 6:30 each morning aiming more for 8-4:30 which he didn't have a problem with. Gives me a bit of slippage so even if there is a bad accident or road closure I'm very rarely clocking in later than 8:30 anyway.
As long as the hours for the week add up as they should then I think it's good to have a bit of flexibility, obviously depending on the type of job as discussed.
Robertj21a said:
Clearly, if you don't have a set starting time then the time you start is rather irrelevant !!
I think we might be talking at cross purposes. If you have a set starting time, or your start time is critical to the role then fair enough, you should be there on time. I was more talking about the fact that having a set starting time for roles where it isn't required is a bit pointless 
Flat-6 said:
The reality of life is that you cant plan for unexpected events.
I live 6 miles from where i work on my current contract - usually it takes me 15-20 minutes.
Sometimes due to that fact that there is only 1 route, "s
t happens" and causes a good chunk of my colleagues and a large amount of Rolls Royce employees to get caught in the exact same jam - there is no point turning around as the alternative route is a good 15 miles and it probably as jammed.
Sometimes said 20 minute trip can take over an hour.
But I am not leaving the house an hour early just in case - I just stay late to compensate.
As this is such a common occurrence amongst the staff, there is absolutely no way to foresee or plan for it, its just accepted that some days a large number of us roll in a bit late, apologise and stay late that it's accepted as just the way it is with this location.
I would love to for once have a job that was close enough to home to not actually have to drive...
Even better work from home, alas WFH opportunities are nearly never advertised in IT/Web.
I live 6 miles from where i work on my current contract - usually it takes me 15-20 minutes.
Sometimes due to that fact that there is only 1 route, "s
t happens" and causes a good chunk of my colleagues and a large amount of Rolls Royce employees to get caught in the exact same jam - there is no point turning around as the alternative route is a good 15 miles and it probably as jammed. Sometimes said 20 minute trip can take over an hour.
But I am not leaving the house an hour early just in case - I just stay late to compensate.
As this is such a common occurrence amongst the staff, there is absolutely no way to foresee or plan for it, its just accepted that some days a large number of us roll in a bit late, apologise and stay late that it's accepted as just the way it is with this location.
I would love to for once have a job that was close enough to home to not actually have to drive...
Even better work from home, alas WFH opportunities are nearly never advertised in IT/Web.
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