Being on time

msdrdg

How important it is to you that you be on time?  What about other people?  Is it upsetting/insulting to you when other people are late (chronically late).

I ask because my co-irker is always late, like maybe 3 times this year she has made it here within 5 minutes of when she is supposed to and never ever has she been early.  She is supposed to be here at 9:30.  It is currently 10 after 10.  Our boss notices and he and I have spoken about it, but he won't do anything about it because he doesn't feel that it is a fire-able offense and that really is his only recourse.  It pisses me off because I end up covering for her with clients all the time and doing her work while I should be doing my own (or bumping).  We went to training last week together and she made me late to every event because I stupidly thought it would be rude to leave her in the room so I waited for her.  We were there with the VP of our company so of course this made me look bad.

For work related things I strive, don't always succeed but strive, for being 10 minutes early.  At the very least on time.  I get very upset with myself when I am late even if it is out of my control.  In my personal life, I tend to be late, but I blame that on a 3yo. 

myskyegirl

Being late drives me NUTS.  I make sure that I leave myself 1/2hr buffer to get places, I don't drive, I take public trans and I'm not counting on them being on time.  I'm early every day to work, I can forgive 5mnins, but to be late 1/2hr to 1hr late is not professional and the boss needs to be more strict.  My husband is late for EVERYTHING, our wedding, parties.  It's a joke that he's going to be late for his own funeral.  

ByeBabyBunting

I used to be on time a lot more, but my GM and business manager, my bosses, are almost always late. The GM is generally at least an hour late and the business manager is consistently 20-30 minutes late. So my goal is to be here before them, 10-15 minutes late. I don't always even make that, but I do try, Today was a win

secretsout

I hate being late.  I always try to arrive early, especially for work things.  I also have a co-worker who is late for every thing.  She is late to work every day, she is late to every single meeting, training session, webinar.  Everything.  It drives me crazy.  And she never has a good excuse--nothing we do is so critical that she can't walk away from it for a scheduled meeting.  I've sort of mentioned it to my boss, but she isn't much better.  When we all have to go somewhere together, we are always late even if I've tried to get them out of the door earlier.  I've started making up excuses to avoid having to go with them--like if we have a meeting somewhere else, I devise a plan so that I will just have to meet them there.  I just find it really disrespectful.  And the other thing that bugs me is when she shows up late for something and then starts asking stupid questions because she missed the first 15 minutes and then we have to have a repeat of everything we just talked about. 

This is an obvious sore spot for me. 

Helenahhandbasket

Ugh.  I feel your pain.  You are pretty much describing the situation I have with a co-worker.  We have to be in at 9-- the earliest I have seen my CW is maybe 9:15, but it's usually closer to 10.  She does not get reprimanded because she sometimes stays late (she has no kids).

It's frustrating, but I would say just keep doing what you are doing. 

msdrdg

For the record she just strolled in the door.
Now she is eating her breakfast, then she will re-arrange the sales counter (everything must be to a 90deg angle), then she will spend 30ish minutes in the bathroom.  Then she might get around to doing some work. 

It is just frustrating that it happens every freaking day and she doesn't care and nobody can/will do anything about it.

monkeybutt61612

It drives me BSC when people are late, especially without a heads up.  Even with a child, I am rarely late to something.

chardonnay24

I hate being late. It stresses me out a lot. I don't really care if other people are a few minutes late, but I have a friend who almost always is at least 30 minutes late for our dinner/happy hour/coffee date/shopping trip and it drives me crazy.

The Nap Taker

I cannot stand people who are late. My BFF is always late, always. I have left her many many times and she still doesn't get it. It drives me BSC.

I'm always early

virgin4lyfe

Two of my aunts it got to the point where I would tell them an event started an hour or two earlier than it did so we knew they'd get there on time.
I'm mean.
I have no respect for chronically incredibly late people.
I am occasionally five minutes late but it's rare.

robinsokj

If I'm not 10 minutes early I'm late

LuckyDad

For any event where food will be served, weddings, and work meetings, I am extremely punctual.

If I'm supposed to meet my friends at their house to hang out, there's a flex range of 20-30 minutes where I don't consider myself "late" if I say 9 and get there at 9:30.

MamatoA2010

I always strive to be punctual. I HATE it when people are habitually late, I mean HATE!

wiggyslilsis

I have found that I am either going to be a half hour early or twenty minutes late so I always err on the early side. I can't stand being late. It makes me anxious. I have a friend who is always a half hour to an hour late and it drives me up the wall. SIL is always late and blames it on her kids. She told us we would understand when we had a kid. Now we will understand when we have two kids. and it is like but SIL seriously you were notoriously late before you ever even had kids.

nancy30005

I think I asked this on here before, but yeah. I hate being late, and I hate people being late. 

We made these plans three effing weeks ago. Be the fark on time. And I'm not saying emergency situations and such. I came very close to avoiding things with a friend because of her chronic lateness; it was killing my anxiety. 

OP, that is sheer disrespect. Is she young/first job?

msdrdg

nancy30005 said:

 OP, that is sheer disrespect. Is she young/first job?

She is 28 or 29.  This is her first non-internship job, but she's been here for 5ish years.  You would think something would change.....but, no.