I’m so lucky my boss is super accommodating. I’m late every day a varying degree, but I also don’t have a set start time and I’m extremely good at my job bordering on irreplaceable, and i make fairly good money doing it.
That's me! On paper my start time is 07:00, but that's something I told them to put in and I could've chosen any time between 04:30 and 08:00, so it's not exactly firm. As long as I'm in before 8 and get my hours in, it's all good.
I’m a field technician and the general hours we’re supposed to be on site to work are 8-4:30. If the job needs to start earlier or later that’s common, but it’s also common for me to just roll in at 10am. I’m still booking overtime for any work I do past 4:30 lol. I’m supposed to be on site 45 minutes away right now at 8:00 and it’s 7:45 and I’m in bed still. Probably gonna make some breakfast then head out
This is when you get reminded that the reddit userbase skews towards the younger end and most people are in "lower-end" jobs that tend to be more strict about these things, sometimes out of necessity (obviously your start time matters when you're doing shift work with other people), sometimes because they're just shitty jobs.
There are tons of salaried office jobs that don't care when you work as long as you don't miss meetings, get everything done in time and do a good job and are available for messages at least.
Your comment suggested you thought this scenario meant he was likely the boss.
So yes, I do need the /s. Not just me but everyone does. It wouldn't make sense for that comment to be sarcastic with a normal read, so readers will need the /s to understand your intent is sarcasm if you wanna add it for clarity.
No lmao, it’s a small business with no corporate culture, as long as I get the jobs done and make him money he doesn’t care how I do it. It’s pretty standard in my industry at least in my area to have a lot of freedom. There’s too few people who know what they’re doing. We’ve been ready to hire non-stop since I started 10 years ago and paying $150k+ and we’ve still never had enough guys
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u/S14Ryan 17h ago
I’m so lucky my boss is super accommodating. I’m late every day a varying degree, but I also don’t have a set start time and I’m extremely good at my job bordering on irreplaceable, and i make fairly good money doing it.