The mouth pieces for the ruling class really love pumping out articles to drive division between us…

Baby Boomers, if were going to generalize, often feel the boss has ass-grabbing privileges with the attractive employees, so their opinion may not amount for much in the 21st century.

Except among the ruling class, of course, where we leave demented and senile representatives in power until it is wrested from their cold dead hands.

Just common sense should be enough.

If your job doesn't require you to be there on the dot, who care?

If you keep being late for meetings and you're wasting your colleagues time, get your ass out of bed earlier.

It's not hard. But it's super annoying to be waiting for people who just don't care to be on time.

Hang on Gen X once the boomer population dies out you're next in the ongoing war to keep generations hating each other. You may get lucky and the future articles will skip over you and go directly to the "uptight, low tolerance Millennials"

These articles are such overgeneralized bullshit just to get people mad at each other. I bet there are older workers that are always late to work and I bet there are young workers that are on time and do amazing work.

"i don't appreciate you being tardy"

"Say what? What did you just call me?"

A lot of these differences are regional and industry specific. I worked on the east coast in more traditional industries and 9am on the dot was expected. Moved west and switched to tech and I was the only one in the office at 9am. I had coworkers showing up at 11 and noon. Despite the late arrival, people would still leave at 3 and 4pm. Were they working any less hard? No, in tech people are online til midnight and 2 am regularly. Tech attracts a lot of folks with night owl chronotypes. Their brains are literally not functioning optimally until 7pm rolls around. Boomer work ethic doesn’t have a lot of understanding of this fact.

As a millennial I'm on team, "Work starts at 9, show up at 9"... but if you're a little late here and there, whatever. So long as the work gets done.

10 minutes is on time. Unless you work with shifts, where other people need to wait for you.

Sorry, but if you're expected at 10 you should arrive at 10. Doesn't matter if it is work, a meet-up with friends or family, a date, or whatever. People schedule things around you, they'll expect you at 10, not 10 minutes later. So if you come late, it means you're not respecting other people's time, which means you don't respect other people.

Ten minutes late to a meeting? Go somewhere else and make someone else's life harder. Ten minutes late to holding a chair down? I don't care if you're on the moon, just get your shit done.

Zero sympathy.

Be at work when you're supposed to be at work. That's why they told you what time to be there, not around what time to be there.

but public transportation!...

Account for it. You took the job. If you aren't the right fit, just say so.