My biggest risk as an employer

[Zundfolge]

Wow Sparky, what a micro managing, slave driving jerk. Your employees clearly need to unionize so they can stand up together against your abuses.

[SAnd]

If you normally get there early a delay won't make you late. I never bought into "traffic was heavy", or "I had a flat tire", or "it snowed" excuses. The starting time is the starting time.

[theGinsue]

While I was down in Kentucky when my mother-in-law passed away, I had the opportunity to see and learn a little about the nearby Amish community.

Lots of folks hire the amish to build and install custom cabinetry in their homes. When they are hired on and they are supposed to start at 0700, they have hammer (or whatever tool they're using) in hand and are swinging it @ 0700. They break for lunch promptly at the pre-identified time for punch, but not a second sooner. They return from lunch or any other break and a working when the clock meets the time they're supposed to be working. They continue working up the the moment that they are supposed to stop. If they feel they didn't give you 100% due to illness or what-have-you, they deduct the percent they feel they were off from their wages they charge you.

Sure, I goof off at work much more than I should, but I was absolutely amazed and totally respected their work ethic. Too bad we don't see even a small amount of that ethic in the rest of society.

JS (Just sayin)

[Anton]

When they are hired on and they are supposed to start at 0700, they have hammer (or whatever tool they're using) in hand and are swinging it @ 0700. They break for lunch promptly at the pre-identified time for punch, but not a second sooner. They return from lunch or any other break and a working when the clock meets the time they're supposed to be working

How do they know what time it is if they can't have wristwatches?

[KevDen2005]

If you normally get there early a delay won't make you late. I never bought into "traffic was heavy", or "I had a flat tire", or "it snowed" excuses. The starting time is the starting time.

EXACTLY. I purposely tell my girlfriend that the time we need to be somewhere is 30-60 minutes before we need to be there because I know she will cause me to be late otherwise.

Great gal otherwise, just never learned to tell time

[Sparky]

Wow Sparky, what a micro managing, slave driving jerk. Your employees clearly need to unionize so they can stand up together against your abuses.