Written warning re: Timekeeping, suggestions please

outsetsailer

I can in 40 mins:
. Go to the toilet
. Have a shower
. Have breakfast (Oats So Simple as on a soft food diet due to painful jaw problems). This adds 2 mins longer than if I grabbed a bowl of bran flakes
. Clean my teeth
. Get changed.
. Apply a little make-up
. Grab my bag, keys and lunch from the fridge

On days where I don't need to wash my hair, 35 mins.
You just need to step up a gear and get a move on. I am a woman as well and I don't need to spend a lot of time getting ready for work. Providing you are wearing clean clothes/uniform and look fairly presentable, that all employers want from you. They aren't going to say one day, that you missed your mascara.

seven-day-weekend

Well minnie, you see this is precisely what I don't understand.

If you know you are always two or three minutes late, why don't you start out five minutes earlier???

Kavanne

I get out of bed at 7.25 and have to leave the house at 7.45, hehe! I don't wear make up and I shower in the evening you see, so all I need to do is eat, brush teeth and get dressed! Very efficient, I think.

Reds-on-Sea

Horace wrote: »

I found your excuses rather pathetic to be honest - to say that you are a woman and that is why you are nearly always late for work is complete and utter tosh. Really, what you are saying is that you are a lazy bint:rolleyes:

Despite the name I use on this forum, I am also a woman and in the not to distant past used to spend a lot of time in London in fact, I used to drive there after work just to go to the theatre (I live and work in Birmingham), I would stay over at my boyfriend's house and set my alarm for 5.00am and I could be at my desk at 8.00am ready to start work, I also used to get up at 4.30am to be at my desk at 7.30am when that was my start time - in case you didn't know London is 120 miles from Birmingham. Many a time there were incidents in London which meant that my route out was often diverted - the police weren't helpful, they just closed roads so I had to get my map out and find a way out, I was still never late for work.

Your persistent lateness is stealing time from your employer and I feel sure that after 5 years' they are getting fed up of it as are your colleagues. I wonder if you want your employer to sack you as that will leave you free to laze at home all day thinking about the new job that you want.

So what if your hair is long - other people also have long hair but it doesnt make them late for work. I think that you should perhaps grow up and have some consideration for your colleagues who have to cover your absences.

Get yourself a decent alarm clock and don't put it beside the bed where you can roll over, switch it off and carry on sleeping - put the thing on the opposite side of the room so you have to get up to switch it off. It is also utter nonsense that you have to wash your hair each day - stop using Pantene and use a different shampoo (over washing makes it overly greasy), wash your hair every other day or even every 3 days. Stop making excuses.

I do wish people would at least read the thread before getting up on their high horses.

I'd also appreciate if you didn't call me names.

Nobody needs to cover for me, somehow the company doesn't go out of business due to my 4-6 minutes of absence a week.

If you bothered reading my reply, you'd see that I do have an alarm clock, and never snooze it.

p.s. SO didn't mean to thank you either!

to Callisto, do you go to bed with wet hair? I'd worry that I'd get water stains on my pillows

Kavanne

Reds-on-Sea wrote: »

to Callisto, do you go to bed with wet hair? I'd worry that I'd get water stains on my pillows

Don't know about callisto but I personally use a hairdryer if my hair is still wet when I want to go to bed.

minnie123

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Well minnie, you see this is precisely what I don't understand.

If you know you are always two or three minutes late, why don't you start out five minutes earlier???

I don't know I do aim to but then it never happens because I am always rushing around in a mad rush - I just can't explain it. I am so not a morning person. I think it's like a bad timekeeping curse. My boss has been saying the same thing to me for 6 years. "just leave 5 mins earlier"

Sharon87

Kavanne wrote: »

I get out of bed at 7.25 and have to leave the house at 7.45, hehe! I don't wear make up and I shower in the evening you see, so all I need to do is eat, brush teeth and get dressed! Very efficient, I think.

That sounds like me! Unless I'm starting a new job (which is pretty often, as I'm only temping at the moment, well when there is work!).

I think that's a habit I still have from uni. Some times I only left 15-20 minutes between getting up and going to lectures! (I lived 5 mins from campus).

I worked in a factory a few years ago (tempory work), where I started at 6am, the agency picked me up 5:05am! I constantly slept in as I wasn't use to such early starts.

I used to be terrible for sleeping in, especially during college and my weekend job, but now I know the one major rule for getting to work on time... go to bed earlier. It makes a world of difference, as you don't feel so groggy in the morning and you get ready faster.

SandC

I wash my hair every other day. This morning was a hairwash day so I was up at 6.50. In that time I also have cereal and orange juice, manage a couple of fags and am out the door at around 8.05-8.10. I live close to work but still start out at that time, so I'm here for 8.20-8.25 most mornings (8.45 start) but every so often something weird happens with the traffic and it can take me 25 mins bizarrely.

On a non hair wash day I don't get up until 7.30am as it's the hair that takes the time.

I think the key is to do nothing aside from getting ready to leave the house. Just do what you have to do. No household chores, never mind the dishes etc.

I find it quite odd that someone would not want their company to have 30 mins of their time. I suppose different places have different cultures. It does make a difference when you are hourly paid compared to salaried though. I suspect you have people at the same firm who don't have to clock on who are as regularly late as you OP, it just isn't as obvious. But then those same people are likely to be those who don't leave the workplace at the exact finishing time. I'd say if you want to leave at finishing time then you must start before start time. It's only fair.

bestpud

Now, I'm not known for my time keeping in general, but there is no way I could regularly turn up to work late! I like to give myself at least 10 minutes to get in and sorted before I need to start. I'd be terribly stressed on the journey if I knew I was cutting it fine too.

I'm glad you can see why you do it though and are prepared to make changes.

What I can't understand either though, is why people are still messing about in the current economic climate? DHs employers have got rid of a few wasters of late and I am sure it's no coincidence that the work is also drying up a bit.

DH thinks it's a good thing as these idiots are essentially preventing redundancies and allowing the employer an easy way of cutting the wage bill!

But neither me nor DH can understand why they are so darn stupid when it is obvious they are being very strict right now and efficient with warnings etc.

Two from a couple of weeks ago have young families too, and yet they were still taking the p1$$ after warnings and are now out of work just before xmas!

And there are still people having time off and being habitually late and ignoring the warnings they are receiving.

Why would you?

Rocking horse $h1te for brains, clearly!

Reds-on-Sea

I was on salary till a couple of years ago, I would quite regularly work an hour or more extra a day.

but yes, the culture here has changed, people are standing by the clocking machine at 4:28 now (we finish at 4:30) every day. I think the under appreciation of our efforts has dragged our morale and loyalty to the company down somewhat.

Anyways, having my disciplinary meeting in 15 mins.

Anyone dare me to show up late? *hehe*