DCI Gene Hunt

Is there a need to always be on time? - Just typing this post is actually making me late

I have no formal start time - hence I make my own up.... but always feel I'm late

Camoscooby

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Im never late for anything, I always arrive exactly when I mean too

Jamie

Camoscooby late for work

tony de wonderful

I'm lifestyle unemployed so I get up what I want.

Jamie

What do you get up ?

Camoscooby

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Yes I am.

The Zohan

Just to add +1 and i do not even need to get up to sign on, classed as disabled so i do not even leave the house - that ingrowing toenail is a godsend!

Clarebabes

I'm still at home Awaiting our "redundancy or not notifications", so no one's doing much work at the moment...

Camoscooby

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Not mentally disabled then

Coffin Dodger

Had a meeting at 9am this morning (just finished) so if I was late for that I would consider myself late for work. Our official start time is between whenever the first key holder gets here to open up, before 8am typically, and 9:30am.

Personally if I'm in any time after 9am I consider myself to be a little on the late side mostly because I don't still want to be here at 6pm

tony de wonderful

I was joking, but I get lots of time off days where I do what I want.

The Zohan

Why not ask yo momma or sister as they see a lot of me!

Glowplug

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I can't be late aany more, asked my boss to sack me yesterday, so he did

Camoscooby

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oldsplice

I'm the same. We have flexitime, so it doesn't matter what time I get in, but if I get in past 8.45 (our 'official' start time), I feel that I'm late, because I normally get in at 8.30.

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

I used to work for various companies years ago and start time was always without fail 8:45 with a complete bollocking if past 9 a.m. Sometimes traffic whatever made that impossible and I would always worry about it.

Since running my own business, I now try and get in by at least 9:30 or 10 am because it means I miss some of the morning rush but always work later.
If there are meetings smeetings, then I will make the effort .

Part of the beauty of working for yourself is that I arrange most of my appointments for when it suits me. In the summer I also put my energy and emphasis on clients that have air conditioned offices or server rooms

Jamz3k

im never late because I always like to be early to get a parking space. In my last job working in Shopping Centres around NI, I was never on time as i just couldn't be arsed to do the job.

windyboy

The folks in work are surprised if they see me in early, I do have flexi time but it is supposed to be only within core hours but due to the shift I work I cannot start and finish at the core hours times. Usually I am 5 - 10 minutes late but I have been known to be 45 minutes early before the summer as I was doing a school run on the way to work.

I was late today too but only by a few minutes due to traffic and no real desire to get to work

windyboy

Jamie

bloodninja

Lisawrx

iTrader: (1)

I'm always about half an hour early for work, just so I have time for a cuppa before I start. Plus I hate to be late.

One of my friends at work has just been given a warning for poor timekeeping. I've never seen her more than about 1/2 minutes late, cutting it fine more than late allowing for watch differences.

ScoobyDoo555

I'm always on time - usually early. Work tend to frown if the classes don't start on time!!

J4CKO

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I get in for about eight and leave about half five/six, nobody checks and when I fancy working from home I do, when I fancy a lie in or an early dash I do, today am in the car (usually on my bike) as need to deliver a bike I have sold on Ebay, so had a lie in, read for a bit, had a brew and will leave early but I reckon I have covered my hours and like I said nobody is checking, really is a breath of fresh air, I dont take the p1ss so it works, I get my work done, I do things out of hours and it always seems appreciated, I put more pressure on myself than the managment ever do.

Booked myself on a couple of courses (one next week) and a seminar, booked some nice hotels, so a few days away, few beers and nice dinners, a nice family free chill in a hotel and then back when I start missing them, does me good, learn some new stuff.

I think with me, I get peed off with monotiny, so the variation and having the option to have a late start/early finish/odd trips/home working is fantastic.

SamUK

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lol..depends if you work for someone, they may use that as an excuse to get rid of you..and if you work for yourself, you either are not working hard enough or are making way too much money..

DCI Gene Hunt

I left the house at 08:08 and had to drive 20 miles, arrive at the office for a meeting that was scheduled for 08:30 - I walked through the door at 08:31 - if I was a razor I'd be a remmington

Jamie

If you was a boy you would be Beyonce

Gear Head

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My contracted hours are 8.30-5pm, but I am always in, at my desk with the computer on by 8.15am. I'll stay late if there is work that needs doing.

I'm a sad ******* really!

Gregsti01

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I drive anywhere up to 2hrs to get to site,always leave 1/2 hr earlier so I can have cup of tea/*** before I start,dont like being hastled soon as I arrive

Mitchy260

Flexi time for me anywhere between 0630-0930 +8hrs

DCI Gene Hunt

All these late mornings mean I should leave early - a ying and yang type requirement