How to prevent Double-Late-For-Work Accidents.

I once worked my way up to management. Management sucks. I now have a UnionJob where I am part of the crew. As a manager, I learned that the almost universal policy of being able to fire employees who are more than 1 minute late 3 times in 28 days (20 workdays) exists just so that over half the workforce is fireable at all times. This makes cutting the workforce quickly easy.

As a manager, I decided on this policy:

1. If someone is late once in a week, let it slide because, as the old saying goes, fæces occur.
2. If an employee is late twice in a week, talk with the employee and point out that this is the 2nd time in a week.
3. If an employee is late 3 times, in a week, talk with the employee and point out that if the employee does not want to come to work on time, the employee does not have to come to work at all.
4. If the employee is late 4 times in 1 week, fire the employee.

I only had to resort to # 2 an handful of times, and never had to resort to # 3 or # 4.

I moved on to current job. Back in 2019, I was all set to leave the house and be at work 5 minutes early, so that I could punch into the clock right on the hour, when I could not find my keys. I wasted 10 minutes looking for them. I accidently washed them.) .I already had 2 tardies in the last 28 days, so had to hustle. Long story short, I ended up in a double-late-for-work accident. That is what the cop called it:

The cop after taking my statement, in the hospital said that he was 90% sure that it was a DLFWA (double-late-for-work accident, just after 9 AM. When he saw it, he was certain. Basically, over 90% of traffic-accidents within plus or minus 5 minutes of 09:00:00 AM are DLFWAs. He took the other guys statement at the scene, as the paramedics placed me into an ambulance (I had 3 broken limb).

40,000 people die in traffic accidents annually, in the USA. the officer said that about 10,000 are DLFWAs. The officer said that DLFWAs kill about as many people an year as drunk driving.

I could not work for 10 months. When I went back to work, I swore that I would not risk my life and the lives of others by speeding, burning rubber when lights turn green, trying to make yellow lights et cetera. Then my supervisor called me into his office:

I was late 3 times in the last 28 days. If it were not for the Union, he would fire me, but instead, he has to give to me a written warning stating the the next time I am late, he will fire me. I had no choice but to risk my life and the lives of others; or else, end up living under an overpass.

We could eliminate DLFWAs by a tardy to 5 minutes of lateness per week and shortening the period from 28 days to 7. I know that the 'Rona killed more Americans than DLFWAs do in a century, but still, they are avoidable deaths.

Never speed, peeling out on green lights, try to make yellow lights, et cetera, unless it is an emergency or one will be late for work if one does not (given the high-mortality rate of the homeless, being late for work is an emergency).

Comments

[BirdsBooksBrownies]

Where I work it's 10 minutes after is tardy, 1 hour without contact is a no-call no-show, you can have 6 tardies within six months. Probably just be easier for me if I set a pup tent out on the back loading deck.

[Walabio]

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You have it very good:

10 minutes before being tardy.

You have it very bad:

Tardies take 6 months to expire and you only get a 3rd as many for time-unit.