Hang on Gen X once the boomer population dies out you’re next in the ongoing war to keep generations hating each other. You may get lucky and the future articles will skip over you and go directly to the “uptight, low tolerance Millennials”
These articles are such overgeneralized bullshit just to get people mad at each other. I bet there are older workers that are always late to work and I bet there are young workers that are on time and do amazing work. Yet nuance like that doesn’t drive angry clicks and comments.
How i felt reading that title
If I’m always expected to work half an hour late, showing up to work ten minutes late is early as long as no one is waiting on me.
Sounds like the Peter principle at work, ensuring that Parkinson’s law will be exemplified.
If your employees are living their lives to the clock, they’re counting down the seconds rather than ticking off their tasks.
Can’t really agree here. If you have an agreement on when your work starts, you should honor it. If it doesn’t matter when you start working, have flexible hours put into your contract.
In some fields, this behavior would just lead to someone else having to do your work. Not very cool
Ok boomer
Ten minutes late to a meeting? Go somewhere else and make someone else’s life harder. Ten minutes late to holding a chair down? I don’t care if you’re on the moon, just get your shit done.
The mouth pieces for the ruling class really love pumping out articles to drive division between us…
Thanks for pointing that out. Its like we have multiple levels of control mechanisms ensuring our eternal enslavement.
As a millennial I’m on team, “Work starts at 9, show up at 9”… but if you’re a little late here and there, whatever. So long as the work gets done.
10 minutes is on time. Unless you work with shifts, where other people need to wait for you.
Yeah, 10 minutes where I work can snowball if just the right ingredients are in play. But at least the pay isn’t total shit. Just a bit shit. ($25/hour should be the national minimum, dammit!)
Depends on the work and if people depend on you being on time. Applying one rule doesn’t really make sense, but neither does RTO or a lot of work culture.
Fuck what baby boomers think. Bunch of greedy and selfish cunts.
You’re not getting a raise for being on time and people that are on time every day are being laid off too. In practice it doesn’t seem to matter that much.
Late due to traffic? Who cares? Wanna leave early on a Friday and have overtime? Be my guest!
Flexi time, baby!
I’m with the boomers on this one. You don’t have to start going 100% as soon as work starts, but at least be there. I guess it’s just a thing I feel personally is a good thing, when people are punctual. In a work setting I think it depends on the job. In relaxed office I suppose it’s whatever, unless you have meetings and shit, but don’t keep people waiting on you. It’s more about politeness and respecting people’s time for me, than us’ hyper capitalistic, ruthless industrial complex, void of decent labor laws with out of touch, powerhungry clueless boomer-bosses (adjectives!) who think being late is a curse upon their House.
I would guess the stats would be the same if you compared boomers at Gen z’s age. I have definitely worked with a lot of always late boomers. The generations aren’t as much of a divide as a timeframe and young people will do as they always have.
I’m glad my job doesn’t care as long as your timecard makes sense.
I don’t think that article means what the headline thinks it means. Is everyone who is 10 minutes late getting fired? If not, there is some tolerance.
And of course sometimes the baby boomers are like to work, and they don’t fire themselves, so we don’t even have to do real research to call b******* on this one.
