At Least Look Like You’re Trying
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I am not the perfect employee and don’t claim to be. I do work hard and get my work done. If I do run late, which does happen when my daughter doesn’t cooperate or traffic gets snarled, I make doubly sure that I get down to work as soon as I get in and I get in as soon as I can.
However, this is not apparently very important to other people and I’m beginning to realize this. There are several people in our department that are habitually tardy. One fine example was this morning where one person, who is possibly the worst offender, was an hour and a half (!) late. She comes in with her fast food breakfast bag (stopped along the way) and gets down to checking her Yahoo! mail account. After firing off a six paragraph e-mail to whomever, she is ready to get down to business. It’s now two hours later than she should have begun working plus missing a weekly meeting held every Monday morning.
How does anyone justify this? I can see running late, though not at the frequency of some others, but at least make it look like you made an attempt to get here on time. Don’t have your fast food breakfast bag sitting on your desk showing that you even stopped along the way. Don’t fire off a six paragraph e-mail on your Yahoo! account the first thing. That can wait until at least you’ve done a little work, lunch would be even better. If you’re not going to work hard, at least give the appearance that you are. There are times for all of us when our productivity could be better. But don’t flaunt it by coming in 90 minutes late, then eating breakfast, then firing off personal e-mails, and then getting to work. Maybe.