Our company has an attendance policy where you accumulate points for being late or calling off sick, get 7 points and you are out the door.  Call in sick get 1 point, come in 2 minutes late get 1/4 point, up to 1 hour 1/2 point, anything more get a full point.

Every freaking day we have the same few people to come running through the door trying to log into their phones so they are not late.

First of all how the hell do they time it so well that they pull into the parking lot 1 or 2 minutes before they start work.  These people do not live close, they all live 30+ minutes away. When they are late they blame traffic.  I have an answer for them.  GET OUT OF BED EARLIER!!! One guy started bitching to me about it and just said ” nevermind you are on their side “.

Its not that I am on managements side because I am not, because I think that if you are 2 minutes late you should not be punished for it.  Traffic can get anyone from time to time, but when you are late EVERY DAY, you might wanna consider getting up a bit earlier.

I start at 6am, it takes me 1 hour to get to work in the morning so I leave at 4:30am just to be sure I get here in time.  I give me myself 30 extra minutes each day just in case there is traffic.

In the 6 years I have been here I have only seen 2 people get fired for anything other than attendance issues.  And there have been some people who were so bad at their jobs they needed to get fired but they showed up on time, so all was well.   On the other hand we have had some really good people get fired because they got 7 points and just had to go.

We don’t have to like the rules, we just have to live by them.   If people wouldn’t abuse the rules they wouldn’t have to put the rule in place to begin with.