Gen Z workers think showing up 10 minutes late to work is as good as being on time—but baby boomer bosses have zero tolerance for tardiness, research reveals

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• blattrules@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If I’m always expected to work half an hour late, showing up to work ten minutes late is early as long as no one is waiting on me.

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• BatrickPateman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Late due to traffic? Who cares? Wanna leave early on a Friday and have overtime? Be my guest!

  Flexi time, baby!

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• Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m with the boomers on this one. You don’t have to start going 100% as soon as work starts, but at least be there. I guess it’s just a thing I feel personally is a good thing, when people are punctual. In a work setting I think it depends on the job. In relaxed office I suppose it’s whatever, unless you have meetings and shit, but don’t keep people waiting on you. It’s more about politeness and respecting people’s time for me, than us’ hyper capitalistic, ruthless industrial complex, void of decent labor laws with out of touch, powerhungry clueless boomer-bosses (adjectives!) who think being late is a curse upon their House.

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  • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Arriving 10 minutes late sometimes and being punctual aren’t related. (Don’t get angry, keep reading) If you aren’t making anyone wait for you, someone who really needs you, like a coworker waiting for a shift change, opening a store, a meeting, or attending a client, then you’re not late. It’s your time and your work, if the work is being done and delivered on time, then you are punctual, doesn’t matter if you arrived 10 minutes late that day.

    That’s why at my office meetings are not allowed exactly at 8 or later than 4 pm, nor at lunch times. We are adults, we recognize we all have personal lives.

    At my last job I worked with a boomer manager. She was always 15 minutes early, great, right? She had the worst work ethic I have ever seen. She usually left at 9 or so to do personal errands. Would take extended lunches for two hours or more. She would regularly cancel last minute or entirely miss meetings. Would leave late every single day, usually closing office (turns out she was embezzling money). Did she extend these courtesies to her employees? Not at all, she would give warnings and fire people, check cameras and comb timesheets to deduct wages, would complaint about bathroom breaks and fired a coworker for taking maternity leave. The point is, punctuality is a value about being considerate with other people’s time, not enslaving to a clock. Chairs have no feelings.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Punctual means arriving at a specific time. I think you mean punctuallity doesn’t always matter.

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• NABDad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The C-suite boss where I work complained about being in the office at 7 am and seeing empty desks.

  This was pre-pandemic.

  The thing was, policies in place at the time allowed employees to work from home up to two days per week, and flex hours were permitted as long as the core hours of 9am to 3pm were covered. It just sounded insane to everyone.

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Study shows researchers never worked for any of my awesomely tolerant boomer bosses.

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• Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m glad my job doesn’t care as long as your timecard makes sense.

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  • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same here. If I start around 12pm-ish, it’s totally and I guess nobody would even bother if I slept a little longer. At my previous job I got my ass handed to me if I didn’t show up early in the morning, and no one cared that the office was at the ass-end of the world or that I put in a night shift the day before…it was horrible.

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• BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I personally don’t want to hear anything about coming in late when I usually am the last one to leave the office in the evening.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m the other way around. I’ve agreed to work for these hours, so I’m showing up on time and leaving on time. They seem to value this higher than more total time spent.

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They can fuck off with that. Everyone else is there on time because they’re adults, why are you special? All those people left 10 minutes earlier than the absolute minimum of time in order to account for traffic problems, etc. So can you.

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve always heard there’s a 15 minute grace period before they consider you late and basically everywhere (except Wal-Mart) I’ve ever worked has honored that.

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  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In nursing if you’re not on time for report the outgoing shift will meet you at the door with pitchforks. But my guess is that at Walmart you don’t have to pass on six different people’s life stories accurately enough to not risk killing them every change of shift so I’m admittedly somewhat confused as to why they would care…

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, and in the same nursing job they will look at you as a bad nurse if you don’t copy the entire fucking chart on your little piece of paper. I don’t need merman’s apgar score. Gimmie the highlights and get the fuck out.

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s a power thing, their shoplifting policy is unbelievably strict for similar reasons. They will straight up ruin your life simply because the cashier forgot to scan a 50 cent lollipop.

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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How i felt reading that title

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• Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In the US all people are to be treated equally, that’s why large businesses have stringent rules. This is the way to not show favoritism to one person over another. Also why I’ve always worked for small businesses. They aren’t exempt just likely to get in trouble for it

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    in the US

    All people are to be treated equally

    You’re kidding, right?

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  • orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If the company president is late, there is no penalty. Obviously. Of course the rules are inconsistently applied at many companies…

    Were you describing your hope?

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  • michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There is not one grain of truth here its like talking with that guy who sits down to pee and wipes the tip of his Peter with tp because mommy taught him and everyone is too embarrassed to straighten him out.

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    • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I was with you at first but you lost me. Why do you care so much about how other people use the bathroom?

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• Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure most zoomers will outlive the boomers.

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• orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think that article means what the headline thinks it means. Is everyone who is 10 minutes late getting fired? If not, there is some tolerance.

  And of course sometimes the baby boomers are like to work, and they don’t fire themselves, so we don’t even have to do real research to call b******* on this one.

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