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Originally Posted by fredr123
We just need CaptainCrunch to come in and complain about kids on his lawn and the thread would be complete 
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Dude why be hatin?
From working for a company that provides payroll solutions, I see this all the time, and its not just the young workers, its all workers, and its called time theft.
Depending on what you pay, and how many people you have, 5, 10, or 15 minutes a day can become a pretty sizable drain. And its one of the biggest complaints that I receive.
So I have to ask, what kind of work is this? Is it retail, manufacturing? Office?
The first thing that you have to do is sit them down and lay out the expectations. Ok, you start at 8, that means your at your workspace at 8, your done at 5 that means you leave your workspace at 5, you get a 30 minute lunch, make sure that you take into account coverage, and you get two 15 minute breaks. Thats it thats all, if you can't live with it, then this relationship isn't going to work out. But at this point you can't joke about it.
Maybe you need to look at a time and attendance system. If you put a time clock in, you can then use the data at performance evaluation time, especially if they have to punch in as they're going to their workspace.
Look employee, you punch in at 8:10 every morning, and leave at 4:50, so I'm going to adjust your grace period to under 10 minutes, that means if you arrive at your workspace 10 minutes late, or leave 10 minutes early you will not be paid for that grace period.
As an employer you have a right to a agreed upon level of productivity, and the old saying goes, 10 minutes here and 10 minutes there and soon your paying someone an hour and a half a week not to work.
Be firm.
But its not just a teenager thing.