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.

There is someone in our office who does this. Sometimes up to an hour.
I say nothing, not my business and I’m not covering their workload.
Not my place to raise it and I’ve nothing to gain from doing so.

If I wasn't their manager then I wouldn't be "confronting" them. If it bugged me, then I would raise it with my Manager. The other person may have an agreement to take shorter lunchbreak or perhaps to work shorter hours because of a childcare, public transport or whatever reason and the manager has agreed to this as flexible work request as long as they meet their work deadlines.
I would hate to work somewhere with so much clockwatching.

First response nailed it.

It's none of your business, stay out of it.

And don't start making passive-aggressive comments or recruiting other members of staff to join in with commenting, ringing the speaking clock, or any of that bullshit because it's not their business either.

Mind your neb.

I'd mind my own business. She obviously has an arrangement in place with the bosses, so I'd keep my nose out if I were you. Unless her leaving 10 mins early every day is having a dramatic impact on your workload, which somehow I doubt.

Mention it if it is impacting on you.
Eg them going ten minutes earlier very day means you have to stay beyond the end of your shift to finish bits off they should have done.

Then talk to your boss. Not her

I used to get annoyed by this sort of thing and it really was not good for me. Then I grew up and I couldn't care less what the other staff are doing, it is none of my business and many people have adjustments put in place that you wouldn't know about. I genuinely don't notice anyone else's work pattern now and I am so much happier for it

I'd mind my own business. Hope that helps.

Mind your own business you crank.

you don’t know it it’s been approved. And unless it’s affecting your ability to finish at your correct time/ you have to cover her work what is it to you?
Try being less of a miser

I wouldn't worry about 10 min. Other people's work arrangements aren't your concern unless you're their manager or they're affecting your work.

My work is flexible so people do what they need to manage kids and health etc and there's people coming and going all over the place. At the end of the day we all get our work done and communicate with our manager as needed and that's what's important.

keep your beak out

I'd stop acting like a playground monitor and concentrate on my own work.

why is the fact that they work three days a week relevant?

This is the sort of thing where if you say anything, you're opening yourself up to having your own actions scrutinised. So I'd leave it.

Previous colleague asked for a reasonable adjustment to leave work 10 mins earlier in order to catch a bus rather than wait an hour for the next one. Management agreed but so many people complained it was then withdrawn. She left for another job where hopefully people were less judgmental.

No, me either. Are you a bit under-employed, OP?

Are they still doing their job well/good enough? If so, I think it's fine. I used to leave about 30-45 min before everyone else, had an agreement with my manager that I'd catch up on emails and any work I could finish from home later in the evening.

Why is it frustrating?

I used to come in 10 mins late every morning and a colleague tried to grass me up. I had arranged with the owner that I would do this so I wasn't paying for an hours childcare for 10 mins on a morning so I dropped them straight at school and came in 10 mins late - I took 10 mins off my lunch but she never noticed that.

It’s not just 10 minutes though is it? It’s 30 minutes x 4 per 4 week period = 2 hours. So for argument sake, lets say OP on £15 an hour, that’s £30 per 4 week period.

Unless of course, like pp said they have an arrangement for this and it’s taken in to account.

I can only say it again: you presumably have a bit of time on your hands, and are quite possibly understretched, to be able to put all this time and thought into it.

As a person who had to leave ten minutes early to get the once an hour bus at 4 minutes past the hour, you are being unreasonable. Management most likely already knows the reason. I had an understanding with my manager that I could leave early if I came in slightly earlier or had a slightly shorter lunch.

Of someone else's money, who might very well not be bothered.

You don’t know that she doesn’t have a genuine reason and an arrangement in place. Last year I got permission from my boss to leave early for radiotherapy, but I wasn’t required to tell the whole staff about it! So I’d probably keep my beak out of it if I were you.

Good for her. What on earth is wrong with some people?

That’s a clear management failure. The correct response would have been to tell people in no uncertain terms to focus on their own work and stop wasting time judging colleagues and questioning management decisions that had nothing to do with them.