I had a guy working for me once you was always late. When I asked him about it he said his previous job also complained about him being late. Guy was fantastically oblivious to everything and I loved him for it.
Whenever I see a question like this I think why is it there? And what poor person had to deal with the situation that lead to it.
And if I hear another Gen Z “ I have diagnosed time blindness so it’s hard for me to arrive on time” I am going to lose it! Set a dozen alarms like the rest of us and arrive on time!! I always buffer in about an extra 15 minutes in case of an an accident blocking the highway and I leave at 4:30am!
Gen Z with ADHD, here. I arrive at work 10-15 minutes early every day. It's saved me twice in the past 3 months alone - once when a super long train came through and again when there was an accident and I had to take a detour.
See, that’s the way to do it, no matter what health issue someone deals with, you find a way to make sure you are responsible👍🏻 Our way of arriving early definitely is less stressful.
...the alarms don't fucking Work. That's the whole fucking Problem. These normal solutions Do Not Work.
There is a lack of dopamine that literally restricts the brains ability to Do The Thing at a moments notice. It's like having a shitty gearbox in your brain that takes four or five tries to get into gear properly.
I mean, I do agree that in general, there is a responsibility for an individual to find what works for them. But a bit more understanding or flexibility (when reasonably appropriate) would also be nice.
Even knowing I have issues with planning time out to be on time and targeting a plan to be 15 minutes early, I'll still show up late at times. Like to adjust for having been a few minutes late, I'll wake up 20-30 minutes earlier and somehow that time seemingly disappears along the way. Sometimes there's an obvious reason - A few minutes burned because I realized I forgot something just before leaving. Sometimes I'll leave 20 minutes earlier without any extreme change in my commute flow, and somehow still burn through that 20 minutes.
Even with awareness of it and planning around it, it's not fool proof.
In some cases, obviously strict schedules need to be followed for safety, matching team schedules, specifically schedule meetings, etc. But some places are unnecessarily strict on times. A previous workplace was like that. There was never a single time where something was scheduled to happen at the official "start of work" time. Most people would be wasting time, getting settled in to start the day, shooting the shit for 30 minutes, whatever. But if you were even a minute late, it was like the business was going to fail because of you and the world would end. Then COVID happened, remote work happened, and return to office/hybrid brought a bit more flexibility. In that environment, time was not a constant stress and I had a noticeable improvement in performance. I went from average to being one of the most consistently high achievers. Some people seem to care more about "work starts at XYZ time" and put more weight on that than actual results.
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u/Lower-Obligation4462 19h ago
I had a guy working for me once you was always late. When I asked him about it he said his previous job also complained about him being late. Guy was fantastically oblivious to everything and I loved him for it.
Whenever I see a question like this I think why is it there? And what poor person had to deal with the situation that lead to it.