The warehouse I work at has a “strict” attendance policy. It’s only strict because my supervisor is way to by the book and offers no kind of window. I was late 5 and 8 minutes. the 5 because I was worried about my car getting stolen because the warehouse is located in a pretty unsafe city and 8 minutes because TRAFFIC COMPLETELY STOPPED THE FREEWAY. These points affect whether we get promoted and whether we can apply to other positions within the company but because of these little points that any other empathetic manager would let slide, I’m stuck making an 80 mile/2-3 hours round trips until August instead of April like planned. I’m so infuriated because I’ve asked them for a little empathy since I live so far and CONSIDERING it took them a whole month and a half to pay me for Covid related pay that they kept brushing off I don’t know why I expected any kind of empathy. I’m only a high school graduate so there’s not alot of high paying options for me and this place offers well over minimum wage and I really want to keep this job but it’s so unfair that even if I leave 2 hours early I’m still gonna get points if something out of my control like traffic happens. Tardies would be nothing if I didn’t live so far but I’m stuck here for even longer now scared that at any time if traffic does me dirty, I’m fired and all this was for nothing.