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Sanmel:
I have worked in several establishment and one common thing colleagues can say about me wherever is that "I get to work late".. I feel bad about this though and I've done my best to stop but it ain't working.
Even when I try to leave home early, something must sha happen that will make me get to work late.
I'm beginning to think it's not ordinary. What should I do?

Leave home 2hrs before resumption

Get your clothes and shoes ready every night

Set alarm to wake up early and let it snooze every 5mins

Start waking up by 4:30am and sleep by 8pm

Sanmel:
I have worked in several establishment and one common thing colleagues can say about me wherever is that "I get to work late".. I feel bad about this though and I've done my best to stop but it ain't working.
Even when I try to leave home early, something must sha happen that will make me get to work late.
I'm beginning to think it's not ordinary. What should I do?

Sleep at work...

Ire o

Ninisun:



You don't have ion for the work you do, is it a government job with little to zero pressure? That's a bad habit that needs emergency response.

Yeah it's govt job. I'm more of a result oriented person. But I'm going to work hard and improve

It's sad that you've become a captive of a bad habit. It's the pathology of organizational incompetence. Africans are pathogical time wasters.But it's not all Africans. Yours sincerely worship promptitude. My sense of the hour is infectious.
You've got to discipline yourself. You've got to chase this demon out. Do u go to bed late? Do u oversleep? Cut out all those things that delay your sleep: electronic gadgets,phones etc.
There's nothing untoward spiritually about it. The problem,I submit ,is you. It takes a lot of organizational discipline to be time conscious in a space like Africa. But ,u can do it. Plan 2 hrs ahead of schedule if your working place is not far away.

I'm sorry,I came late op.
But I have to say this,if you wish to stop going late to work,Then you'll need to stop eating morning pie late.The earlier you ate your morning pie,the earlier you get to work if you get it,you get it,if don't then forget it

Set your alarm for 3 different times, 30mins interval to when you wake.
Example. I work in VI but live at Egbeda. I set alarm for 3.00 a m, 3.30a.m and 4 a.m. when its first rings, I'm still sleepy, the second one wakes me on my bed waiting for 3rd. Then I wake and prepare to leave home by 5 am. I reach office by 6-6.30 am. I can sleep for another hour before workers arrive by 7.30 and work resumes by 8

jericco1:


Shame no dey catch you

Why shame go catch me?

If it's that my parents are there for me, I'm blessed I still have them

Sanmel:
I have worked in several establishment and one common thing colleagues can say about me wherever is that "I get to work late".. I feel bad about this though and I've done my best to stop but it ain't working.
Even when I try to leave home early, something must sha happen that will make me get to work late.
I'm beginning to think it's not ordinary. What should I do?

Get everything ready the night before. Iron your clothes, put your shoes by the door. Pack your lunch, leave breakfast ready so you’ll just warm it and if your hair is braided that makes it easier to manage. When waking up, if you leave the house at 7:30, set your mind to leave at 7am, that way you give yourself an allowance of half hour incase you are late to prepare yourself & so you’ll still make to leave home on time.

I hate these sets of people � how can a grown up be talking about lateness?!?! That's so irresponsible!!!!

Sanmel:
Hmmm.. Thanks for the advice.. But like I said earlier, even when I wake up very early, I still get to work late.. There seem to be a spirit behind it, doesn't look ordinary to me anymore

No spirit. How long does it take you to get to work on a normal day? Set several alarms at the time you should have left the house and head out. If you like you can set one 2 hours when you should leave, 1 hour when you should be halfway and the exact time you should have been at office. After a while you will meet the times

Sanmel:
I have worked in several establishment and one common thing colleagues can say about me wherever is that "I get to work late".. I feel bad about this though and I've done my best to stop but it ain't working.
Even when I try to leave home early, something must sha happen that will make me get to work late.
I'm beginning to think it's not ordinary. What should I do?

Tell the HR department to start deducting heavily from your salary whenever u come late.
I think this will help

elohim24:
You're not alone, I am a perpetual late comer, I get to work late, I get to church late , I get to all my appointment late... the thing tire me no be small. I have never gotten to work before 10am ... I just can't seems to leave home early. Funny thing is that I can wake up very early and change my mind about going out for the day. I'm also late to airport but because naija airline no dey keep to time I never miss my flight before. Abeg pm me when you find solution

You dey late to chop?

Ayo081:


Why shame go catch me?

If it's that my parents are there for me, I'm blessed I still have them

How old are you again

just smoke some pepper leen az lol

Its a govt job and they don't deduct if you're 2 minutes late.. Thank your God.
If it were to be a private establishment... Some months you will go back home with like 25k.

jericco1:



How old are you again

That I still have parents?

Oga shift

Never joke with punctuality

When you lose the job and poverty use u play ping-pong,we will now know if it is spiritual or not.... Habitual late comer..... Even people wey dey leave for shagamu dey work for Lagos gan no dey come late to work...

Sanmel:
Hmmm.. Thanks for the advice.. But like I said earlier, even when I wake up very early, I still get to work late.. There seem to be a spirit behind it, doesn't look ordinary to me anymore

You're being vague.
What do you mean by very early? What time is very early?
In ideal conditions, it take me 45 minutes to get to work.
When lagos traffic sets in, it take 2 hrs.
Bad traffic, 3hrs.
Bad traffic starts from 5:15am.
So i get up very early AT 4AM, leave the house, be at the bus stop by 4:45am
and leave immediately or latest 5am.
5am + 45mins + bus conductor looking for engers, I get to work 6:00am-6:30.
Work starts at 7:30am.
So I get up early and arrive at work early.

TPound:


Sleep at work

Na im Na.
The OP will now enter office toilet at work, lock himself inside and still come out late for work.

My guy me n u b d same oooooo I swear....
Some times I wake up early I relax pressing my phone ...laslas I go still go work late....infact my own na inborn.. starting from secondary school I no dey ever attend early morning assembly..na after school assembly I dey enter school.infact the School flog me tire back then..infact I no even no my school anthem ,because na for assembly we dey sing the School anthem..
Even when I wrote my G.C E is still went late to exam center..but the good tin about me b say I dey brilliant then..so even when I go school late or exam late ...I still know what to right..because I on a daily baises I read my books at least three to four hours every day..so I know what I am doing.....o.p......infact me n LATE we b 5 and 6

Set alarm

Procrastination is the root cause, little nothings like when to take bathe, when to make a call, when to eat. If you can work on them and do them the exact time. It will help.

Best bet for me is having a to do list, keep it simple add extra time for procrastination and gradually reduce to the exact time they should be done.

It's difficult to overcome, I still run late and the bad part is we're good at making excuses spontaneously.

I get one close person in same shoe as the Op but the difference is that,she is breast feeding a baby currently and that's understandable.

elohim24:

Yeah it's govt job. I'm more of a result oriented person. But I'm going to work hard and improve

Yea, work harder cus government jobs make most to be redundant and incapacitated. Mine requires day to day intensive and impactful activities and so must go to work early. There is always a motivation to strive to work harder or transfer knowledge.

kolakolex:
I get one close person in same shoe as the Op but the difference is that,she is breast feeding a baby currently and that's understandable.

The bottom line is that there is less motivation/inspiration to go to work early. It also affected his other engagements.

Me too, even when I am in school I always come late and now that I am serving I am still being late. When going out too I am always late. But I like home alot

Sanmel:
Hmmm.. Thanks for the advice.. But like I said earlier, even when I wake up very early, I still get to work late.. There seem to be a spirit behind it, doesn't look ordinary to me anymore

Rent house near your work

Sanmel:
I have worked in several establishment and one common thing colleagues can say about me wherever is that "I get to work late".. I feel bad about this though and I've done my best to stop but it ain't working.
Even when I try to leave home early, something must sha happen that will make me get to work late.
I'm beginning to think it's not ordinary. What should I do?

You fit try my pattern, during evaluation at my work place they rated me highest for time management ranging from coming to work in time and finishing my bills before deadline.
I sleep latest 1 am, my alarm wakes me at 6am I snooze my alarm and it repeats every 10mins, I snooze till I leave the house ,I say the lords prayer drink a class of water from my fridge go to the toilet throw some shots while I roll my AZ after every in the toilet, I then commence my morning workout, each set of exercise will be accompanied by maybe dishing out my breakfast which is mostly garri and soup as I don't eat till I come back from work , the soup goes to the microwave. I continue my workout everything goes from 6 to 7 once its 7 I boil water for Garri and turn on the microwave eating and every goes till around 7:22 then to the bathroom I go brushing, bathing and listing to good music I'm still snoozing my alarm once its 7:40 I don push I mostly easily get a bike of N100 to work I get to work 5mins earlier or more everyday but never after 8am.

Though I'm fortunate to be leaving not really far from work, I pay more than some colleagues that live afar and paying less for rent then more on TP

MadeMan01:
Set your alarm for 3 different times, 30mins interval to when you wake.
Example. I work in VI but live at Egbeda. I set alarm for 3.00 a m, 3.30a.m and 4 a.m. when its first rings, I'm still sleepy, the second one wakes me on my bed waiting for 3rd. Then I wake and prepare to leave home by 5 am. I reach office by 6-6.30 am. I can sleep for another hour before workers arrive by 7.30 and work resumes by 8

See stress. Abegi.