Workplace culture rant from carfrom @zerodollarcoach

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Don't care if my employees are late. Hell, I don't care if you come in twenty minutes late and leave early. If all your work is done, your customers are taken care of, and nobody else has to pick up your slack, go home. I genuinely do not care. And I know some managers are already losing their minds because apparently sitting in a building for exactly eight hours is now considered an accomplishment. It's not. If you can do your entire job in seven hours while somebody else needs eight, why would I punish you for being better at it? Because that's exactly what we do to good employees. You finish early, here's more work. You're efficient, here's somebody else's work. You got everything done by 04:30? Well, you still have to sit here until five because, well, those are the hours. Congratulations. You just taught your fastest employee to slow down. Now that seven hour job is magically gonna take eight hours every single day, and I don't blame them. If the only reward for working faster is more work, eventually, everybody figures out how to look busy. Now, obviously, if you're late and customers are waiting, your coworkers have to cover for you, meetings are getting held up, or your work isn't getting done, we have another problem. But the problem isn't that the clock said 09:17. The problem is that I can't count on you. Those are two completely different things. I care about the work. I care about the customer. I care about whether your coworkers can count on you. I care about results. What I don't care about is watching a grown adult sit in a chair until the clock gives them permission to leave. So, yes, come in late. Get your work done. And if everything is handled, leave early too. If that makes me a terrible boss, I guess I'll have to find a way to live with it.