WWYD? Colleague skiving off early.

[downundergirl]

Works three days a week. Leaves ten minutes earlier than finish time every day and none of the bosses seem to notice!
So frustrating for the rest of us.
Would you report it?
Hope that eventually one of the bosses actually notices?
Confront the person yourself?
WWYD?
Thoughts please.

Nothing. You don’t know if they have flexible working in place. It’s the boss’ job to notice.

This is no different to people who start work then spend ten minutes making a cuppa.

This

Yeah it’s not your place to notice. I’d think management realise.

All our hours are the same …

You don't know what individual arrangements someone else has got.

Just leave it, if it causes a genuine issue it'll get picked up by managers.

I’d probably make a few comments, is your watch fast kind of thing. Would I report her? No

I would do nothing. If the person isn't getting their work done, the boss will notice. They may be working through their break or logging on at home. Stay out of it. It's 10 minutes ffs. Lots of people chat, have a fag break or a tea break for this amount of time.

Maybe she has to catch a bus or a train or something and she has an arrangement with the management?
I might be inclined to comment to her about leaving early again but I wouldn't report her. Does she take ten minutes less of her lunch break, or does she arrive ten minutes earlier?

Manager's job. Maybe she is getting through her work as required.

Are you sure you use every single minute of your working day working? From what I see, it’s very normal for people to spend a few minutes each day answering personal texts, making a cuppa, going out for a vape, reading a couple of news articles online, checking their bank account, etc etc etc

Do you police all that too? It seems tiring. If you’re not her manager, then it’s not really your problem unless you have to cover her work.

Lots of good advice. Thank you all. 🤗

You’re not her manager. Stay out of it and focus on doing your own job.

It would annoy the ass off me, but I think the best way for things to not bite you in the butt is to leave it be. Go full 'let them' on the person. Breathe.

My friend does this but he’s there extra early and doesn’t take a full lunch break. Managers are happy with it.

If you're 100% sure they're leaving early, as in without any permission or arrangements and it grates on you that much every time it happens say "oh home time already, been a long day".
Pack away your stuff and walk out with them.

There was someone who used to do this where I worked. Would elope off early on a Friday to go to her caravan, without logging it as leave/flexi. Not just for that but other days too. Would turn up late too saying she felt unwell but would be in a bit later, then would come in with her hair freshly coloured and cut. This was public sector too, so tax payers funding this!

The manager was informed and did absolutely nothing. Fobbed colleagues off saying to stop her we would all have to attend a tribunal and give evidence! Said person has now retired, so has got all the time she wants to go off wherever!

You start leaving 10 minutes early and see if it gets picked up! In fact leave with her 😆

I couldn't bring myself to give a toss about someone leaving 10 mins early.

Is it impacting on your workload? Do you have to cover her role in those 10 minutes, and is it interfering with your ability to complete your own work? If yes, go to your manager to discuss the impact on you. If no, then just ignore and get over it.
Maybe one day you'll need flexibility for something you don't want to make public (I know there are people who cannot conceive of such a situation, but they do exist).

Does it impact your work? If not then why are you worrying about it, surely there are bigger issues than someone leaving ten mins early…

If it bothers you all that much then all of you should leave with them. That’ll bring it to the boss’ attention.

I’ve worked in an office where whenever someone started getting ready to go early, someone would put the speaking clock on speakerphone pretending they were just checking their watch was right.

Needs an office where people get along and muck in though.

One thinks you need to get a grip.

As a manager I’ve often approved 10/15min variations either unpaid or taken out of a break. Often it’s the difference between public transport lining up for a nursery pick up, or bus times. Personally I’ve also been in a place where if I duck out 10 mins early I get home 50 minutes earlier due to transport timings and traffic. It would never occur to me to flag it to the rest of the team (though I might offer a curt ‘i can’t discuss flexible working arrangements’ to any busybodies who asked 😂)

If they’re not allowed to do it, management will catch on pretty quickly anyway and many places consider it gross misconduct (and a dismissable offence!) if it’s not agreed, so unless you want that sat on your conscience if you’re ‘right’ I’d just leave it.

It would probably annoy me, but for ten minutes, I would just suck it up and hope that you get the same flexibility if you needed to leave a bit early.