I’m very very slow in the mornings. Alarm at 6:30/6:45, stay in bed sometimes until 7:30. Shower, breakfast, try to be out by 8:30 but often don’t manage it until 8:45 or later. Consequently despite living a 15 minute walk from work I often get there well past 9.
Think I’d explode or burst into flames or something if I had an actual lengthy commute to work in the mornings
How strict are your bosses about timekeeping? (to the floor)
BTW morgen. I’m sitting outside with an iced coffee!
We have core hours of 10-4 and can work out our contracted (37/week) hours around that.
Never had anyone strictly enforce it though.
My current line manager is at the other end of the country so I’ve got no supervision on this.
not at all. if i’m 45 minutes late i’m still probably the first one here
Yeah usually really late for everything. I think I always try and work out the optimal amount of time I need to leave to get somewhere but always underestimate it and end up 10-15 mins late. Worst was when I lived on my uni campus like 10 mins walk from all my lectures but still managed to be late for every single one.
Anyway. Working from home again this morning then off to see Tame Impala in Dublin with my dad and my ATD later! 
as long as i do my hours and they’re generally around the 9-5 area then it’s fine. same for the people under me, as long as they get their work done and don’t take the piss then it’s fine by me.
have a couple of people here who do 8-4 and get viewed suspiciously (i.e. management don’t believe they get in at 8 and actually just do 9-4), but they do actually do their hours (i sometimes get here around 8:15 and they’re always here, one of the management guys intentionally got here early once to try and catch them out but nope, they were here)
I regularly get in at 10/10.30. Only way people would know is if they checked my skype status regularly. Because we’re often travelling I don’t think people pay too much attention to it for my job role. Having said that, I’m ending up behind with my work because of it so I need to nip it in the bud.
Ugh that’s such chronic behaviour. Trusting your employees is key.
It depends - if I’m late for classes regularly, I’d get in trouble but now teaching has finished I can kind of work when I like.
A colleague of mine was offered a discussion about flexible working as a result of his poor time keeping. The manager in question wanted him to flexibly work somewhere else and saw the meeting as a first step towards achieving this.
Baba that’s awful but also kinda funny
She was a bit of a tyrant and really didn’t like him; he was chronically unreliable and barely did anything while he was here.
That’s also an elevator pitch for the romcom I’m writing about them.
We’ve got flexitime and core hours of ten until four so as long as we’re here for that that’s the main thing.
There always has to be a manager here though so now that I’m in an acting role I’m here covering holidays more than I’d like to be.
Very strict, which is slightly perverse given that I’m my own boss/self employed.
hate bullshit core hours.
“oh yeah you can come in whenever you want, but you’ve got to be here from 9:01 until 4:59”
Comic writer whose work I like posted this recently
https://twitter.com/brianwood/status/1135485370655752192?s=21
Reminds me once again that I absolutely would not have the discipline to be self employed
Yep, pretty-much ^this. I have a give-and-take approach though - most of the people in my team will be happy to stay a bit later on occasion, on the understanding that if they have to leave at 3pm one day I’ll be okay with it.
See, I love it - but I do have to be very disciplined. Effectively I’m squeezing in work around dealing with kids and dogs. Work kind of plays second fiddle to school drop off/pick up, and 3 dog walks a day. The result is that when I’m in front of the computer, I have to crack on.
It also probably means that, when I am in front of the computer, I shouldn’t be pissing about on DIS…
Ten until four isn’t too bad. If I can rock in at ten and fuck off six hours later I’m happy with that.
It can be a bit of a pain in the arse when you’re trying to arrange things as a team though (what with people’s flexi arrangements, WFH, core hours etc). There’s about a four hour window in any given week where everyone in our team is around at the same time.
Regular email subjects are so emoji heavy these days. they all look like spam