As we all know, being late is unacceptable in any working environment. We see it happen on an everyday basis. Whether you’re stuck in traffic, dropping your kids off at school, or you’re just late. It happens. It goes on in everyday life and people just let it slide. But being late in the military environment is a whole different story. This could mean the difference between the way people see you and how they treat you, promotion and demotion, and also the difference between life and death. Through this paper, I’ll show you that being late is a big problem in military life, and how it affects the working environment… ESPECIALLY a military environment.
“Being late shows a lack of respect for someone else’s time,” somebody was quoted as saying. My 1st Sgt. Is probably a believer in that saying as well. If your late to work, it’s like breaking a promise. People who are always late to work and to their meetings are regularly breaking promises. We are all sometimes forgiving about those who are late, but a big message is still being sent by the employee, in this case me, that whatever the reason for standing up a command, or in this case my 1st Sgt. or my testing team, is seen as more important than what the command has to offer. Whether your command sees it right away, eventually it will begin to strain working relationships with that employee and probably other team members as well. So basically if I arrive late to work, I’m not only breaking a promise to my 1st Sgt., and saying that his time is worthless, I’m also letting the team down. Also giving myself a bad name with them.
Another thing about being late is that fact that I would really like to move up in the military. I would like the respect and to get more pay for my family. But I can't expect to move up very fast, or at all even, if I'm not following simple rules such as being on time. Promotion is what everybody in the military looks forward to, so you have to make sure your evaluations and...