I mean, as long as an employee produces outstanding results, why do employers get so angry and punitive when you show up late or don't ask permission before taking a longer break than usual?
As a business owner I get upset with both.
There is no excuse, or very few that justify you being late.
You are an adult.
You know when you have be there, how long it takes to get there, so get up, get moving and be on time.
You are costing them money.
I'm sure you expect to be paid on a certain day, what if your employeer didn't get around to it for a few days or a week or so?
i'm sure you wouldn't be thrilled about that.
Same goes for poor workmanship.
if you can not perform your job after proper training and time to learn then it is time to move on.
I have fired people for both reasons.
I had 1 girl that was always early by 10 to 15 min, got her stuff organized sat down and started working.
I didn't have to tell her what to do unless I had a special project for her to do.
Guess who continually got raises, bonuses and they were consistantly higher than all of the others.
I am not a baby sitter, as an adult you have certain expectations to you employer.
You show up on time, dressed appropriately, do your job to the best of your ability.
As an employer I have certain responsibilities.
Provide a clean safe work environment, provide preoper training, provided any needed supplies/tools for you to do your job, provide proper compensation/benifits based on the job, your skills, your performance, and attitude while in the workplace.
Just 1 employee that is always late to work, poor job performance, yet is always on time for their breaks, lunch, going home and expecting their paycheck can be very detrimental to all of the other employees.
They will start to dislike you for being late, not doing your job so inturn they have to pick up the slack, and eventually they may figure why should I work so hard.
She doesn't and is still here.
It can affect the entire work force.
like the old adage 1 bad apple can spoi the whole bunch.
That is not the kind of employee I would tolerate working for me.
Kinda puzzled me, too! When I used to work at Mellon Bank, okay, I was late a number of times, usually not more than a few minutes and mostly because of the buses I had to take to get there were either ALWAYS late or never showed at all so, I'd be force to take a later bus but, AT LEAST I SHOWED UP!! And, once there, I not only got my work done on time but busted ass to get it done!! And, if I had no work left, I'd go to another section and help them with their work! But, they fired me because I was late a few times!!
In the meantime, when I started at the print shop a couple years later, if I was late getting there, I'd work late that much to make up for it! And, they knew I was a good worker that busted ass while I was there!! So, when mom had her stroke and then my brother killed himself, that meant I had to stay home for the first few hours of the day to help mom get up and around. Once she was dressed and ready to face the day, I could leave and go to work. But, I couldn't stay late anymore to make up what I missed because I had to be home to help her make dinner so, even though I was only at work for about 5 hours a day, I still got my work done while I was there!! And, they al knew of my situation and were fine with it. Someone new once complained about me only being in for 4 to 5 hours a day and wanted to know why they didn't fire me because of that and she was told, "Because he does more work in 4 hours than you do in 8!!". In fact, when the new owner decided to move the company so far away, I couldn't get there anymore, he decided to have me work from home! He'd ship my work to me and I'd do it in the garage out back! That way, I could work any time I wanted and as long as I wanted and was usually doing more than 8 hours a day!!
Often it is because the employee is needed for that specific shift. That means if someone is an hour late they can't just stay an hour longer, because they won't need them that last hour.
Depends on the job of course.
If they needed them the first hour, and customer service suffered because of that, then the employer gets the brunt of it, for poor customer service, compensation and lost business, potentially forever.
My employer requires people work 40 hours a week during the scheduled shift. If your late, you use PTO, you cannot stay late to make it up.
If you don't have PTO, you get no pay... if you hit 24 hours of no pay in a calendar year, you get written up, if you get an additional 8 hours you get terminated.
The reason given is, if you are considered full time and they are paying for your health insurance and benefits, you need to be working full time.
If you want to change to part time status and not have benefits, then they are more lenient and you can get away with that and poor attendance far easier as they can hire a few more part time people and then send you home if they have too much staffing going on. Usually the person with the worst attendance would get sent home early if not needed.
They don't want to have to hire extra help, beyond what is needed and pay the huge amount of costs for benefits if they simply don't have to.
As for poor quality, they can work with people to try to improve that easier if they show up on time.
Not a lot they can do to work with someone who is consistently late.
I don't know I think is how much your boss actually likes you...
A couple times I didn't check my schedule properly and just didn't show up for shifts while ignoring his calls other times I would be late. I would just get wrote up because he liked my work :P
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I guess it depends on what the job is.
I've never had that problem in my career. I've always been rated on the quality of my work, not how many hours I put in, or my arrive/depart times. My career has been in engineering. If you're in retail or customer service, start-end times become more important.
Because that means you could have worked more and didn't. Your 90% might be ten times better than someone else's 110% but it's still just 90% of what you could give and they want everything from you. Corporations are vampires that exist to suck you dry, getting rich off of your hard work and will settle for nothing less than literally everything you have to give.
You're contractually obligated to turn up on time, and it's very easy to track timekeeping whereas it may be harder to track work quality. Also letting it slide for one employee means you'll be expected to let it slide for others and ultimately it leads to a drop in productivity.
I can teach skills. Quality will improve with practice. …but if you don’t show up for work, what can I do with you? Punctuality is important. Letting me know when you will be late is important. Poor performance can be improved so long as you have a good attitude and are willing. Showing up late does not indicate willingness or a good attitude.
Because it is much easier to monitor attendance and timeliness than it is to measure work quality.
Most work isn't cars. If you're building a sedan, it has a very easy metric of good/bad.
So, employers ding on timeliness because they can be right and look like they're managing/leading.
As soon as you let employees come and go as they please no matter how good a worker they are , productivity will suffer eventually. It is much easier to quantify attendance than it is to judge the quality of somebody's work
These are messing up their financial accounting, disrespectful, and showing to superiors that he/she can’t manage the staff. Easiest way to fire someone with continuous disregard for policy. Review dream come true if “manager enemy”.
It's old world thinking. Ever since the 9-5 had been thought up its all that mattered to employers. If you did all your work by 12 o clock they'd heap on more work rather than give you praise.
Punctuality is a simple concept: It means showing up when you say you will. When you are punctual, it signals that you care for your team members, you take your job seriously, and you care about meeting deadlines. In almost every workplace, punctuality is synonymous with professionalism.
Partially because it’s an employee breaking policy, regardless of which policy. But also partially it’s because coworkers notice so the employer must harshly enforce the policy.
To simpletons, physical presence is more important than actual mental function. Quantity over Quality, because you can use a dollar to measure Quantity, but NOT Quality!
It's still rude to be late if nothing happens like if you get caught in traffic but otherwise would've been on time
Why? Because you agreed to be there at a set time for a set time.
Because the workplace is nothing but a modern rendition of a slave plantation
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