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gravitie asks: "I'm a developer in my local area. I'm on what is supposed to be 'flex time', so I can work the hours that my boss and I see fit for me to fullfil the number of hours I'm required to get a week. Besides this I must clock in at 7:30 AM every day I am at work. If I clock in at 7:31 I am late, no questions asked. If I am late 3 times in one quarter I get a verbal warning. Next time I get a written warning, then it just goes down hill from there (docked pay, etc..). Is this standard in todays business world? Should 1 minute late really be considered 'late'?"
In fact I just got in (09:50 BST) and after reading my mail, I went straight to SlashDot.
I'm supposed to be in at 9:00, but pretty much everyone gets in when they feel like. Then again, I don't leave work until almost 7, so I still put the hours in, and beat the traffic into and out of work.
If I clock in at 7:31 I am late, no questions asked. If I am late 3 times in one quarter I get a verbal warning.
Well, at least if you're running one minute late you can make the best of it and go out for breakfast, coming in 3 or 4 hours late.
More important crucial question:
are you working in some sort of slave labor camp?
No, this is not normal. Get away from that company as fast as you can. Soon they'll be requiring you to ask the line manager for toilet breaks.
Daniel
Carpe Diem
I've got a C compiler that doesn't like my syntax. I mean, I know I've read the spec and it lays out the syntax, but I don't really like it. I mean, can't they change the C spec to suit my code?
I know it costs $0.48 to mail something, but I only want to use my $0.47 stamps. Can't something be done? It's only $0.01 difference. Sometimes I'll be willing to pay $0.49 to make up!
Does anyone know how to go 130 kph when the speed limit is 100? I mean, people keep giving me tickets. Can't something be done about this? Really, the rules should be changed.
If your hours are stated in some form of contract, then honour it. If you don't like it, try to work with management. If that doesn't work, you can literally quit your job.
If you don't like getting there early and having nothing to do, bring a book, bring some music, bring an audiobook, etc, etc. The worst that can happen is that on days where there's traffic/construction, you won't be stressed out because you'll be 3 mins late for work. Instead, you'll arrive there 20 mins early instead of 30.
In all honesty, it does look disrespectful to other people when you get there late and most everyone else got there on time (or early). Especially those that travel longer distances to get to work in the first place.
Now, now. The line manager is a very busy man, and doesn't have time to field your every request. So long as you catch his eye as you clock out to go to the toilet, you'll be fine.
It's 8:13 AM, I'm "supposed" to be at work at 8:00 AM. I'm sitting here in my underwear at home reading Slashdot before I even bother taking a shower.
Then again I work until whatever time is required when a project is due and my boss knows that I'll bust my balls when it's needed.
I could work in a structured environment like that if I was required to, but I wouldn't put in the extra effort. If 1 minute late gets me written up, then 1 minute late clocking out would too. 8 hours, get up and go.
It's all in the relationship.
My reality check bounced.
Well Flaimbait, I've worked for assholes like this before. They're usually the neurotic type that have cat's instead of kids. (No offense cat people.) But here, in the real world, people have lives. Lives that involve other people know as 'family.' Some people even consider this 'family' to be more important than their 'job.' So the next time you decide to call and leave 13 messages on the answering machine Mr. Lumbergh, telling us that work starts at 7:30, remember, we just don't care. I could continue mocking you, but you probably think too much of yourself already.
Someone hates these cans.
Every Friday, just before it's time to leave, my boss comes up and says:
"Hey, Peter. How's it going? Yeaaaa. I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to come in tomorrow....".
Then, if I'm one minute late, when I get home there's a message on my answering machine:
"Uhhh, yeaaaa. I was just calling to let you know that we did start at the NORMAL time today. So if you could just get here as soon as possible, that'd be greaaat. Thanks."
I usually come in about 9:15, through the back door so Lumbergh doesn't see me come in. Then I sit at my desk and space out for a few hours.
Space out?
Yeah, just stare at my screen, make it look like I'm working.
Now for the rant. I'm really pissed off with cunts like you whose answer for everything is: "if you don't like it, leave". That's not a fucking answer. You're exactly like the braindead fucks who pretend that the way to fix a country is to get rid of all the dissenters. Fuck you.
Hey, if you don't like those types of answers, you're free to quit reading slashdot.
So what you are saying is that a McDonald's worker should be paid the same as a doctor?
"So, I have you down for one coronary bypass. Do you want fries with that?"
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Soon they'll be requiring you to ask the line manager for toilet breaks.
And you'll have to make due with the 4 single-ply sheet toilet paper ration they give you, no matter how dire your bowel conditions may be.
I agree, get outa there!
At my job, my boss tells people that "he's usually in between 8 an 8:30". I try to be in by 8
I've got flex time. My boss comes in at 8:00. I come in at 10:00. No problem. My boss leaves at 5:00, I leave at 5:01. No problem...
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!