A Cure For Tardy People?

This is bonkers and childish.
It's VERY simple...
Just don't wait for them, either carry on without them or simply go back to doing some real work.
Del

We have someone notify us of the approach of the "Tard", then we start laughing and snorting. When the subject opens the meeting room door, we all become silent and guilty-looking.

Actually, we do nothing, because it is a dynamite factory and we are just grateful that anyone shows up on time, if at all.

if this is an "employee" of the company, i dont think the wage and labor people will allow you to dock anyones pay by more than what they would have made by working the time missed. You dock me $35 for a minuite late, the dept of labor would be my first call. You can, however, offer bonuses for perfect attendance, and subtract from that. A boss of mine once did that you made $1 a day toward your christmas bonus, and lost $5 from your bonus every day when you didnt show up.

A bonus ia always better than a penalty. I have a few rental properties. I give a family a turkey at Thanksgiving if all their payment are on time. It works.

PRbobimm

Be aware that turkey's should not be dropped from helicopters!

It really depends on the meeting. While most meetings are useless BS, there are some that do matter. FWIW it's not up to the invitees to determine if the meeting is worthwhile or not, it's strictly the purview of the person signing the paychecks.

As an employer if I schedule an important meeting during the work day for the people I employ, I expect them to be there *ON TIME* -- Failure to report on time is equivalent to direct insubordination. When did we become blind to this particular form of employee disrespect?

I would ask if the $35 fine is worth being discharged for cause???

It's also reasonable for the tardy person to offer an explanation for lateness -- Yeah, I think I'd give the reactor engineer a pass, but the guy who was waiting on the fresh pot of coffee has his priorities messed up!

Are you saying dynamite as in "really great" or is it truly a dynamite factory? That could have some <cough> explosive ramifications.

Actually it was a joke, I do not work in a factory. If I where to talk about the countless meetings my company has, due to the new 6 sigma black-belted lean and every othe tag the new management has brought with them from their arsonel of ascendent tools for corporate laddder climbiing, I would get depressed......Dam!

We went from making and sellling things that work with few meetings to countless meetings about why our sales and morale are down due to introduction of "new, improved products" that don't work.

Read parkinsons law on attending meetings

crm

I used to just lock the door at the start time. Late comers got to stand in the hall if they wanted...usually got the message across after one or two times.

getting the idea 1 or 2 times. They must be slow learners if they need to be taught more than once.

How could you possibly enforce this???????????????

Force the person to part with they're cash. That's called robbery in some countries.

Has this become part of peoples employment conditions? If so it's absolutely ridiculous.

We regularly end up going from one meeting to another. So even if the first meeting finishes on time (most do), you still have a couple of minutes to walk between meeting rooms.

Then there's the bizarre fact that the phone system clocks in my building run a couple of minutes later than the ones in the main building so it "takes" me over 5 minutes to do a 2 minute walk...apparently. The PC time is different again...and few of the meeting rooms have clocks (just the ones I've bought).

And then they wonder why you don't answer emails/phone or get any useful work done....

At least in this state (NY), this would be considered unlawful labor practise by the State Labor Dept. The company (and officers) that does this would be open to imposed fines, possible imprisonment, and possible litigation.

And who is this money paid to? At our company meetings, the CEO is the biggest culprit of all!

Offhand, this sounds childish and stupid., but...

BUT, if it is all done in fun -- i.e., if everybody agrees to the 'rule' and if the money collected is put to an important use (like to cure cancer, or to buy beer) -- then I say no harm, no foul. A pint of Smithwick's for me, thanks.

Well, he didn't "come up" with this, this is an old bad practice that I've known of in a number of places.

Besides, if this problem would have required the intervention of an engineer, in my humble opinion, it should be approached in a more technical way; for example, have every one write down the most embarrasing, disgusting or nearly ilegal secret about his co-workers, label the file with the person's name, encrypt it, store it into a flash drive and send the password to a separate database, pay an external IT administrator to co-relate the XXXfiles with the corresponding passwords by means of a custom application that will unlock the files of the person who doesn't press the "cancel" key on time every morning.

NOTE: the information doesn't even have to be proved, it will have the tremendous power of gossip.

Yahlasit

I can think of lots of "fun" things that could be done...

For instance (for meetings where attendance is more than a handful) the first 2 to show up will be the designated "throwers". At precisely the time of the meeting, they now stand on either side of the door with cream pies. You can guess the rest.

Slightly more practical, simply make the latecomers fetch and distribute the coffee.
Del

All of the attendees (with the exception of the latecomers) suddenly bolted from the meeting under gastric distress.

they now stand on either side of the door with cream pies.

Your just asking for trouble there where free food is available...........you'll have to lock the door.

Sorry I'm late the engineer explained, wiping cream pie from his continence, It's the reactor, the coolant pumps have failed and we are having the dickens of a time removing the fuel rods.

Please excuse my tardiness in replying to this thread. I took a little part time work this week, and a little time was lost due to confusion about the start time. The employer called me five minutes before I was due to leave my house, to remind me that her clock is five minutes fast, so I should be there when her clock says I am on time, or five minutes earlier than originally agreed. She explained that I should remember that her clock is fast, and that she keeps it fast to make sure that employees are early not late, so that she herself can be on time.

So what happens when the boss is 10 minutes late for a meeting with 10 employees? Who tells the boss he owes $100?

I used to have a manager who would always distribute candy at the beginning of his meetings (i.e. generally chocolate...or I wouldn't attend). This technique had an incentive because with our group, no one leave any on the table for the late comers.

Actually, I work for a subliminal advertising agency and although we can't explain how we all ended up in the meeting room, we are never late.

I would recommend the chairman to start collecting the reasons from late comers. You will be surprise for the result. Any one has done that?