A colleague that always comes late for work

sounds like your colleaque is experiencing some depression to the point he are she don,t care if they are on time.everyone knows that if you are constantly late on your jod soon you will not have one.some is very slow to act in dealing with this.don,t get mad it a waste of energy.one day he will come in and he will not have a job if this keep up.

It is strange that your employer tolerates this sort of behaviour from one employee if you have fixed rather than flexible working hours. Of course there might be a legitimate reason why this man always starts ate and if he does not work late, then he might be getting a reduced salary. In general I do not think it has anything to do with any other employee if there is some sort of agreement with the employee, but at the same time it does not make for good working environment it if seems that one employee is receiving favourable treatment. As far as I am concerned if we have set working hours then it is up to each and every employee to arrive at work on time. For one person to be continually late, it means they should be looking at their time management skills or maybe it is lack of skills. It can often place an unfair burden ion other employees who find themselves having to cover and do additional work which rightly should be done by the person who is always late. If someone is regularly late arriving for work, then generally they are late for many other events and that is just plain and disrespectful as far as I am concerned. We do not have specific working hours with my employer but if we were repeatedly late making deliveries then we would need to have a darned good reason. At least 95% of the time we have more than enough time to take our required breaks and still make the delivery on time. However on Sunday night I was late leaving the Brisbane depot as the other driver was several hours late and he was going the first leg of the trip with me. However it turned out not to be his fault because of heavy rain and road closures and as it turned out I was still able to make the delivery in the morning although not as early as hoped. What happened was rate though and was completely unavoidable. Other places I have worked in the past when I was just doing local deliveries I had a set starting time and was expected to be there and get the first load out on time. That is the way it should be too. If any action can be taken about this man’s tardiness, it would have to be done by the employer but if this situation has been going on for some years now, it is hardly likely to change at this late stage. Also I doubt the employer could dismiss the man very easily since he has condoned the behaviour over along period of time.

Well I guess you're employer must do something to make this person be responsible enough about time management. I think you're employer should implement policies that discourages their employers from becoming tardy all the time. Sometimes its the employers fault that there are employees that becomes like this is because the employer does tolerate them to be late and does not give disciplinary actions on these workers.

Your admin must be in a very bad shape not to have an immediate boss to look into his affairs. Every department has a head to whome the department is answerable. Is your boss also so late he does not realise this. Do you not have to punch in your entry and exit times. This is amazing. My company would throw out such a person in weeks. Give him a warning or two and out. Funny how some people have not a care in the world where their jobs are concerned and still get away with it.

definitely not...it's such an unfair situation... we work harder.. but that 'moron' gets same income as we does... totally not fair

Hahaha! I remember myself back when I was working. I'm always in a rushed everyday, I'm always running for me not to be late. Sigh! That is why I don't like to be employed because I am always like that eversince, running, rushing every minute. but sometimes I enjoyed doing such thing. I'm really weird! I'm glad I stay at home now.

Maybe he explained it to the head why he is late and they have a understandment about it. If it is a time thing maybe people should give him a alarm clock s a gag gift for Christmas. I wouldn't put up with it if it was me unless I knew the reason for it and understood it and agreed but If it just happened to be happening I wouldn't stand for it at all.

If I was paying someone to be at a job by a certain time. I would expect them to be there. Otherwise they would not have a job. It was ahppening for a number of years. It sounds like this co oworkers has worked something out with the boss.

When a person is late all the time, it is him/herself that is under stress. His boss may be mad at him/her for a little while, but the boss will get over it, and if the person is persistently late, the boss can sack him/her. I have found that if I give myself plenty of time to get somewhere I have promised to be, then I get very little stress.. :-) Derek

If I am the admin I would never tolerate such wrong doing. It's unfair for other employees who are on time. I don't understand though he's been doing this for years and the head doesn't even know about it? It's either he's ignoring that employee or the head is in favor of this guy.

yeah i have worked at a lot of places where people were laid back and came in late and no one seemed to care where as if i am not at least 10 minutes EARLY i freak!! im always afraid i would be late and so it is really annoying to see me fight to be on time and then they get away with doing what ever they want and not even get their money docked or anything!!

I am also very punctual person and i expect same thing from my colleages also. I faced this problem. What i did was i indirectly gave him message of not to come late. Still he continued. Then i warned him directly once. After that he started coming in time or if he is coming late he is informing me.

Well it all depends on teh boss. he is taking advantage of a lenient boss. If the boss tightens the screws on him, he will become ok. Some people have the habot of takign advantage of a situation. They have no conscience of their own. No two people are the same. leave two people individually in a shop when the owner is away for a while and sure enough one of them will be thinking of ways to pick up some thing without paying. The other may ensure that he looks after the shop till the owner returns.

i think your colleagues'behaviour is very bad.they are not only irresponsible but also spend others'time.they are not respectable.

It would bother me if the work were not getting done. If they had a good work ethic and got their job done, then that is all that would matter to me more or less. Now f they're lazy, that is another story.

I'm a very punctual and reliable person too, and it makes me really mad when people are late! It's rude and disrespectful - and they ought to get themselves more organised. Your colleague should realise he's always late, and factor some extra minutes into his waking up and breakfast routine - especially as it's not a one-off occurrence. It's amazing your Head hasn't reprimanded him (and lucky he doesn't have early classes!) I'd be a very hard boss and fire people who behaved in this manner. There are plenty of people who want jobs who are willing to be courteous and diligent.

Hi Ronaldinu, I'm curious as to whether his boss took any action about his lateness. I try to be punctual always; even if late, it's only by 5-10 minutes. Anything later than that, I would call the office to inform them. If I have an employee who's consistently late, most likely warnings (verbal and written) would have been issued. And in your colleague's case, he would have been dismissed (unless he has a very good reason that is acceptable to the management).

Hi ronaldinu, No i wouldn't, I wouold dock his wages and give him a warning for his lateness and if he continues this, then I will get him the sack,(dismissal) Tamara

I would not mind his behaviour as long he was performing his tasks with quality and in a timely manner. If he was getting paid by the hour, I would confront him and ask him whether he could please come into work as it is not fair by the other workers. I would schedule a meeting early in the morning so he would have to make it to work on time. Again, I would do all this if I were in charge.

Keep the faith...as a supervisor I know this does not goes unnoticed. It may not be mentioned right away nor exposed to coworkers but it is our job to document our cases.After a period of time it will be confronted.Your work ethics are recognized and appriciated.Remember that.