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Work starting times

  • If you start at 8am you get to work at 7:55

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  • You walk through the door at 8 but dont start until 08:05

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  • I get to work at 8, get a drink then log on ready at 08:10

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  • Stop being fussy lol

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marc

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This is one that bugs me.

Say you are meant to start work at 8am, does this mean you walk through the door at 8 or you are at your desk ready to start at 8.

I get to work at 7:55 so come 8 I am ready to start.

It really bugs me as the person I work with always arrive a few mins late then gets a drink then logs on. So every day he does 10 mins less work than me.

What do you all think.
 
I have to be at work during certain times.

I log on as soon as I get through the door, but always have a brew and a fag before doing any actual work. Thats the nature of this job.

If I arrive five mins before my proper start time, I'll still do my usual fag/brew routine and answer the phone if I have to.

Then again, I do spend a fair amount of time on the net and having fag/tea breaks, so I can hardly complain!
 
We're supposed to be sat down and making an effort to be working at 8:30 - i.e. in our seats with the PC switched on.

As some of our PC's are old now and take over two minutes to boot up and two minutes to log on - it's not fair to ask people to come in early just because the PC's are crap.

So you have to be ready to go at 08:30.

However, having a child under 6, I get flexible working. However, running the IT systems, I don't use it (more trouble than it's worth).
 
We have to be clocked in at the time we start, give or take maybe three minutes. So I usually get to work about ten minutes early, take care of everything I need to take care of, chit chat with people for a minute, and then go up at the time I'm suppose to start.
 
Lol, if I'm due to start at 8, I get in at like, 8.03, then by the time I've put my apron on and tied back my hair etc it'll be around 8.06. So yeah, I'm always a few minutes late.
 
If I'm opening at 10am I arrive at quarter to, because then I can make a coffee and set up and generally wake up before the doors open.
 
marc said:
It really bugs me as the person I work with always arrive a few mins late then gets a drink then logs on. So every day he does 10 mins less work than me.
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Does someone in charge not notice this and would that person not get a warning for doing it all the time?

In my job we can clock in anytime between 8-10am so I usually come in about 9.30 and then read the paper and make a cup of tea before I actually start my work. Everyone else does it and most workers here are pretty lazy anyway. There is no way we would get away with that in a private company. Thank god for flexitime and the civil service.
 
In my old job based in an average office I was due to start at 9. I would always get in a tiny bit early as I liked to be working at 9 and starting the computer up would take about 10 mins. So I used to gets drinks etc while I waited for it to start. I do believe that company actually logged at what time we logged in on our computers.
 
I expect my staff to be there and ready to work by their start time. Lateness is absence in my world, and its treated and managed like absence. Fortunately, I have good staff.

I don't have a start time and a finish time however, because i'm salaried, so I start when i'm ready, and work my hours :p
 
Our official work hours are 9-5, but it's pretty relaxed. There are many occasions where I'm working until six or seven, and I usually have my lunch at my desk between working. That said, I might also do some random Internet browsing during working hours.

If I'm late in it's not an issue and I don't have to phone ahead or anything, we just know not to take the piss. I would have thought that on average, I do a lot more than my 7.5 hours a day allocation, so it doesn't really matter.

Same with time off really, we have a holiday allocation, but if you need to take an extra day off, it shouldn't be an issue, I get paid my salary as long as I get my work done and deadlines met.

It works well, everyone's happy and the work gets done.

I don't like being late, and if I am, it's not deliberate at all, that's just not the way I am, but if I am late, it's never really my fault, it'll be because of traffic or something, so in which case, why punish me? It's just pointless.
 
As long as we clock in 2 minutes either side of the time we are sue to start, it's okay. They are quite strict with lateness at our Tesco, so I'm never late.

So if you clock in more than 2 minutes late, you miss 15 mins of pay since it is done in quarters.
 
Martyn said:
I don't like being late, and if I am, it's not deliberate at all, that's just not the way I am, but if I am late, it's never really my fault, it'll be because of traffic or something, so in which case, why punish me? It's just pointless.
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I hate it when you get in after being late because of traffic or missed bus and they say "get an earlier bus/train" just digs the knife in further.
 
I'm always really early.

I detest being late, and I would rather be 60 minutes early than 60 seconds late.

Therefore, for my early shifts, where I have to be in the briefing at 9am, I'm usually in at 8am (though technically I don't start working until around 9.30)

for late shifts, I don't need to even be in until 2.30 (my start time) but I'm in at 1.15 so that I can catch the late briefing (1.45) which I'm not required to attend.
 
^ That's ridiculous.

I remember when I'd have to take the bus directly from school to work because if I went home and took the bus, I'd be late, and I also couldn't drive back then.. I'd be like, fourty five minutes early and I'd feel like a fool :p .
 
I assume that "starting work" for office based professions means being on the premises by 9am, and by premises, in the building you actually work, not in the car park. If the computer takes ten minutes to boot, then that's not your fault as you're booting up the computer in order to work, not for a personal benefit. Immediately getting coffee or having a cigarette or toilet break is taking liberties though.

That said, I normally get in about half an hour early and leave later than the boss - you can't suck up enough when it's salary negotiation time, but your attitude to work is something that marks you out above your colleagues anyway, so there's no harm in always being punctual or slightly early.
 
Yeah, exactly, and attitude to work certainly plays a big part when managing someone. Its obvious whether someone cares about their job or not, and when it comes to lateness, the people with a good work ethic are going to be the ones with genuine reasons for being late, and the ones with a bad work ethic are the ones who are late with no proper reason, and generally more regularly late too. It all comes down to manager's discresion, and any decent manager will know when someone needs a talking to or not.
 
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