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I've always told my daughter to never show up on time because it sets a bad precedent. No one cars if the person whose always late is late. Everyone freaks if the person whose always on time is late.

the last 5 jobs I spend the first half an hour fucking around making coffee and stuff

I come in when I get to work. And leave when I'm done. Not at a time. So happy to work where I do, they don't care. one of my department comes in at 8 or before and leaves at 4:30 (16:30), I just try to make it in before 10 and usually leave around 6, so I can garden in the morning and yoga in the evening.

I give my private number to all my students, so they can text me if they're late for class. As long as it's not often, there's no problem.

Only one of MANY people have tried to prank call me, and he forgot to hide his number... And I could recognize his voice.

I don't think I've been on time to work a day in my life. I am an elder millennial.

I have staff that can be ten min late and it's generally okay (although if everyone did it the same day it would be quite bad). I have other staff where it is imperative that they be on time. Due to having some people that absolutely have to be there on time you kind of have to set a standard for the building though. It can cause some significant animosity between workers if some people have to be there on time and others it really doesn't matter. So like many people said it really depends on the job.

One of my staff does this routinely. Truthfully I don’t give a shit as long as it’s not impacting anyone else.

Showing up just as the ferry left really was a great conversation starter with the guy who was on shift

I was manager at my last job. My shift of guys ran well without me needing to hand hold them. They knew I would be in within a 30 min window. I was there for more than 8 hours and available by email or text about 18 hours a day 6 days a week so me showing up at 1130pm or 12:05am didn't matter much.

Employer here (yes, I know right?! Sigh). Being on time and punctuality is about respect of other people time not about suppressing workers freedoms. We have no time to arrive for anyone. You can use the office if you like or work remotely from wherever you chose. But being late for a meeting with anyone relayed to the firm (customer or coworker including me) has to stay a seldom occurrence. Having multiple people wait for you 10 min is a pain point for everybody involved. It happens, I get it, but it everybody does not keep it to once in a long while everybody waits at every meeting which is not respectful of their time and its wasting quite some money too (Yes my people earn well above average). Is it too much to ask some basic respectful handling of each other?

BTW: there are employees that can't handle that much autonomy yet. They specifically ask me to check their working hours and be at the office present for them to help them get their hours in and help with technical problems. But that's usually new staff which has not learned to keep a routine. With time they usually get it together sooner or later. Surprisingly most make use of the office pretty regularly and just don't come in if they travel to visit family or need to be at home for family reasons. Its a win all around as far as i am concerned.