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This really depends on what you're doing.
If you're in IT nobody should care. If you're doing an artillery barrage then being late could mean a lot of your people die.
Highly dependent on what you do for work. But if Bob the Bookstore Manager wants me to treat a cashier job with the same respect as a military mission then he better be willing to issue me a rifle and a 400,000 dollar life insurance policy
I'm gen x. I'm always anxious about being on time because of how I was raised (thanks Mom). My partner is older than me and she's ok with being late. This isn't an age thing. It's a personality thing.
They're trying to divide us by sowing division amongst generations. The most wealthy are the enemy. They own everything and we must join together to take it back.
Downvote if you will but it is just rude to show up late regardless of your performance or the situation. Period.
It's a job. Imagine having literally any respect for it.
I actually think I’m with the boomers on this one. You should strive to be on time. No need to make a federal case out of occasionally being a little late, but it’s wrong to be constantly late.
If I need to be 100% on time, then I'm 100% leaving on time.
Every job I've had I'm one of if not the first to stay late. Need me to work a double even if it's not my job next? Not a problem boss. But be cool with me being 5-10 minutes late. I'll try to be there on time, but shit happens.
But if your gunna come at me for being a little late, I'll be damned if I'm gunna stay late to help you. Pick your battles
I wasn't arguing any different. By all means leave on time.
But this is part of why it is disrespectful. Look at nurses. If you are late, patients in a hospital can't just go without care. So that means the prior shift is asked to stay later. That's just one example.
I was solving a DNS issue that I resolved at 5.12 yesterday. If I had knocked off on time the website would still be down until January 2nd.
For the want of a nail...
So, you should get overtime.
I mean for that I'd have to be hourly, I'm salaried, which often works in my favor tbh. If I charged my hourly rate they'd find ways to nickle and dime me and be watching my productivity much more closely.
I get where you're coming from. It is nice to your fellow employees to be on time to relieve them. That's just being a solid team player.
But again, every team or job I've had understands if I'm a little late cause they know I'm putting in the work when I get there. Shit, after I got into a motorcycle accident and was bleeding down my side I still had the driver take me to work to talk to my boss. Stayed until the concussion made me leave haha. My boss at the time would tell that story to people who were a bit sluggish. Saying how even on the worst days there's no reason to not give it your all since YourPartnerInCrime came in half dead.
In hindsight it was a bit dumb. But, don't complain about me being 5 to 10 minutes late. I'll be there and I'll give it all.
I understand if it’s occasional. But constantly means you are not giving it all. Sorry, I just hate lateness. I am almost never late, but am constantly waiting on people that cannot meet at an agreed upon time. It just wastes my time and shows me they think their time is more important than mine. It’s a pet peeve.
I’m all for flexibility and flextime when it can be granted. But if you agree something happens at a certain time, it should happen at that time.
It really depends on what you do. If you're in a factory and the entire line is held up or someone is staying extra time from a previous shift then it's a big deal. If you're late to the daily IT stand up meeting you can get the notes from Brad.
The mouth pieces for the ruling class really love pumping out articles to drive division between us…
Baby Boomers, if were going to generalize, often feel the boss has ass-grabbing privileges with the attractive employees, so their opinion may not amount for much in the 21st century.
Except among the ruling class, of course, where we leave demented and senile representatives in power until it is wrested from their cold dead hands.
Just common sense should be enough.
If your job doesn't require you to be there on the dot, who care?
If you keep being late for meetings and you're wasting your colleagues time, get your ass out of bed earlier.
It's not hard. But it's super annoying to be waiting for people who just don't care to be on time.
"i don't appreciate you being tardy"
"Say what? What did you just call me?"
Hang on Gen X once the boomer population dies out you're next in the ongoing war to keep generations hating each other. You may get lucky and the future articles will skip over you and go directly to the "uptight, low tolerance Millennials"
These articles are such overgeneralized bullshit just to get people mad at each other. I bet there are older workers that are always late to work and I bet there are young workers that are on time and do amazing work. Yet nuance like that doesn't drive angry clicks and comments.
A lot of these differences are regional and industry specific. I worked on the east coast in more traditional industries and 9am on the dot was expected. Moved west and switched to tech and I was the only one in the office at 9am. I had coworkers showing up at 11 and noon. Despite the late arrival, people would still leave at 3 and 4pm. Were they working any less hard? No, in tech people are online til midnight and 2 am regularly. Tech attracts a lot of folks with night owl chronotypes. Their brains are literally not functioning optimally until 7pm rolls around. Boomer work ethic doesn’t have a lot of understanding of this fact.