Work related question

[Zcustom]

Your start time for work each day is 7:30am.

Your boss opens the building and once every 2 or 3 months he's 5 or 10 minutes late for various reasons.

Being an hourly employee, do you feel entitled to be paid for the 5 or 10 minutes he's late, since you could have been working and on the clock in that time?

Or, do you just let it slide because it's not that big of a deal?

I'm not the boss in this scenario FYI

[Mvp2014]

haha, i wouldnt try to get your $5 bucks back, not worth it

[The Saltman]

No

[mmmbeans]

once every two or three months?

[Darth Biscuit]

Do you have like a punch clock in this scenario? Otherwise, if I'm there at 7:30 to work, that's what I write down.

Do they dock your pay 5 minutes? Weird.

[88 Bronco]

If it's a big deal I would ask for the ability to open the building under the guise of "So I can be ready to work when my shift starts", but honestly I wouldn't stress it.

[sunbunny]

They don't round to the quarter or half?

[Carolina Husker]

10 minutes 4x a year is 40 minutes of unpaid time out of 124,800 working minutes a year.

I think the employee in this situation should Burton up and

[TarPanther9180]

Yes....hourly employees typically don't make very much money and they most likely live check to check. Every little bit helps and it isn't fair for them to have to work an extra 10 minutes those days because the boss was late. Plus, shouldn't the boss be there like 20-30 minutes before any of the hourly folks show up?

Edit: even though it isn't much money....probably more the point of the matter. If a company tries to dock me $.25, I'm pissed.

[mmmbeans]

you're losing 5 or 10 minutes every TWO OR THREE MONTHS?

i'd suggest using that time to rub one out and relax.

or take up smoking.

[Panthers_Lover]

Unless the boss is flexible on the other end (letting you slip out 5 or 10 minutes early every two or three months), I say you speak up ... but only if the benefit outweighs the potential harm.

[Zcustom]

What's going on is my assistant opens the building every day for me at 7:30. He used to come in ridiculously early to ride the clock so I had to make the start time 7:30 sharp.

We also have an accounting girl who likes to start early to beat all the reports spooling company wide, which is fine.

However, he lives in Lincolnton and sometimes traffic can be a bitch as we all know. About once in every 2 or 3 months he's late, but only 5 or 10 minutes.

On these days the accounting girl changes her time card to read 7:30 and it just bugs the crap outta me. She also gets paid extra to take the mail to the post office, which is 2 blocks away AND is something I used to do without expecting (or getting) extra compensation.

I just don't agree with how she handles it and was curious what the wise huddle thought

[Happy Panther]

What's going on is my assistant opens the building every day for me at 7:30. He used to come in ridiculously early to ride the clock so I had to make the start time 7:30 sharp.

We also have an accounting girl who likes to start early to beat all the reports spooling company wide, which is fine.

However, he lives in Lincolnton and sometimes traffic can be a bitch as we all know. About once in every 2 or 3 months he's late, but only 5 or 10 minutes.

On these days the accounting girl changes her time card to read 7:30 and it just bugs the crap outta me. She also gets paid extra to take the mail to the post office, which is 2 blocks away AND is something I used to do without expecting (or getting) extra compensation.

I just don't agree with how she handles it and was curious what the wise huddle thought

Doesn't seem like a battle I would care about, especially if she is a good worker. Consider it a perk of the job. We are talking about $100 a year or something?

[Happy Panther]

Getting to work at 7:30 would suck by the way...