So, among many BS policies my job is enforcing on everyone because “things got to lax with work from home” is enforcing the 7 minute rule. Meaning if we are late seven minutes or try to leave over 7 minutes early, they take a full half hours time from our vacation hours and if we don't have extra hours to spare, we get written up/ potentially fired after 3 occurrences.
Almost everyone commutes to my job because there is no employee parking for most of us and to park on company property or in a company lot still costs $450+ a month for an unassigned spot in one of their garages.
I take the train into work but it's ” slippery rail” season and trains are frequently delayed and you don't really get any notice about when a train may be delayed. That's why there are signs posted everywhere saying this.
There's also a lot of repairs being done to the trolley tracks around here so the trolleys have to take longer detours. When we tried explaining this to the cooperate supervisor, she told us exceptions will only be made if we get a signed note explaining the situation from the bus driver/ train conductor/ SEPTA operator. A signed note mind you, so she can check the credentials. When I said that, in all my life I have never seen/ heard of a bus driver signing a note for someone, the supervisor, who just moved to the suburbs outside of my city from somewhere in the Midwest, insisted that SEPTA will give out notes and that's ” what professionals do”. She doesn't commute mind you, she has a company parking spot.
I'm just wondering how she thinks this works. Am I supposed to ask the driver/ conductor while they're driving the bus/ train, or do I ask them to pull over first? I honestly can't tell if she is being smarmy or if she is so out of touch that she believes this is a thing that happens if you talk to the right manager/ driver.
I just asked one of the toll operators whether or not SEPTA signs tardy notes, and he just started laughing and finally “no we don't write notes” and I asked him if he could please put that in a note for me to give to my boss tomorrow.