NewStats: 3,262,191 , 8,176,427 topics. Date: Sunday, 01 June 2025 at 10:09 AM 4i2954

DrObum:
Write to your office, tell them to consistently deduct your pay significantly for everyday you show up late.

Before 2 months, you'll be the one opening the door for others.

Haaaaaaaa

Sterope:
How long does it take you to get ready for work?

How long does it take from your home to your workplace?


Calculate those then add 10 mins. Set your alarm accordingly!

Even with alarm, they are still late. It's just one of those weaknesses.

caesymore:


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

Hmmmm... You can't say same for someone living around Ikotun and working at Surulere

uuzba:

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.

My area is not that safe, I can't leave home before 6am

Kayczz:


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

Lol.. You're mean. I'm a likeable person, my HR won't do it

Nothing spiritual about it. Try to leave for work around 6:00am every morning nd see if u would still late!

hawksford:


Lol...

For you to have to bring it to a social forum means you really must be bothered

If you don't mind me asking...

Asides being a perpetual latecomer, do you also consider yourself a very disorganised person?

Do you get to do so many things you're not supposed to do (like unnecessary stuff) before setting out or you just kinda spend so much time on the activities you're supposed to do?

These questions are a good place to start

Cc : Sophiatheninth

Yeah.. I'm sometimes disorganized.. I scatter and rearrange alot..

Get an apartment that's close to your workplace.
Even if it's a self contain. Maybe a walkable distance, preferably.

Or better still prepare a night before. Pick out outfits,prepare documents and all items your taking along.
Prepare your shoe down,arrange money your taking along.
Infact bath and brush just before bed.
Do you prepare breakfast? If you do (try to make something that is less time consuming (cereal or bread and tea)
If you say you wake up early, reset your alarm like 40mins backwards.

In other words wake up rinse your face and mouth, put on outfits, carry all the necessary items , wear shoe and dash out.
Come back and tell me how it goes on Monday.

Then if your still late......ermmmm.....seek advice from your pastor

hawksford:


Lol...

For you to have to bring it to a social forum means you really must be bothered

If you don't mind me asking...

Asides being a perpetual latecomer, do you also consider yourself a very disorganised person?

Do you get to do so many things you're not supposed to do (like unnecessary stuff) before setting out or you just kinda spend so much time on the activities you're supposed to do?

These questions are a good place to start

Cc : Sophiatheninth

Haha. I'm disorganized to the core. I laze about, I procrastinate. Phewwwwww

Cooking,

Making your breakfast by yourself, in the morning, could be among the causes of the lateness,

Always try to have your breakfast prepared, at least half way, before you go to bed, you'll only put up in fire once when you're awake and in just 5min, guess what you've reduced time,


Workouts

Do you carryout any workouts on daily basis, you can minimise the time spent for that. Maybe if you always did , highest level, you bring it down to medium.

Trends


Don't operate your ohine in the morning, until when you're settled down at work., you can check it out fr messages or missed calls, but do not operate more that replying messages

Good luck, and pray -telling God your intentions- not unnecessarily long devotions at a time it's less required to do so.


Gand luck

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

domestic and international airlines keep to time in Nigeria as far as I know

Kennytowel:
Get an apartment that's close to your workplace.
Even if it's a self contain. Maybe a walkable distance, preferably.

Or better still prepare a night before. Pick out outfits,prepare documents and all items your taking along.
Prepare your shoe down,arrange money your taking along.
Infact bath and brush just before bed.
Do you prepare breakfast? If you do (try to make something that is less time consuming (cereal or bread and tea)
If you say you wake up early, reset your alarm like 40mins backwards.

In other words wake up rinse your face and mouth, put on outfits, carry all the necessary items , wear shoe and dash out.
Come back and tell me how it goes on Monday.

Then if your still late......ermmmm.....seek advice from your pastor

Hmmm.. I don't even eat before I leave home.. I just pick my food from the freezer already kept the night before and take to work and then microwave it when I'm ready..
As regards getting an apartment, I'm working towards that already before Lagos stress will ruin me..
Thank you for the advice..

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

Lol, I don hear.. The few times I had to be at the airport sef, my brothers are always helpful.. One time, my brother went to drop me at the airport at about 2pm for a flight scheduled to take off at 11pm, I felt so restless that day en

Nyenatetan:
Cooking,

Making your breakfast by yourself, in the morning, could be among the causes of the lateness,

Always try to have your breakfast prepared, at least half way, before you go to bed, you'll only put up in fire once when you're awake and in just 5min, guess what you've reduced time,


Workouts

Do you carryout any workouts on daily basis, you can minimise the time spent for that. Maybe if you always did , highest level, you bring it down to medium.

Trends


Don't operate your ohine in the morning, until when you're settled down at work., you can check it out fr messages or missed calls, but do not operate more that replying messages

Good luck, and pray -telling God your intentions- not unnecessarily long devotions at a time it's less required to do so.


Gand luck

Funny enough, I neither cook nor workout in the mornings when I'm on duty.. Even one day while I was still working at Ikoyi, I visited a friend at Ijede. I was to resume work by 2pm and I left the place at 11am, took speed boat to sandfill.. Till date I don't even understand what happened that day, we were just moving around in the water for such a long time and when I thought we had finally gotten to sandfill, we were back to where they picked us, they said something about not seeing clearly. A supposed 15mins trip o turned to over 1hr. We sha moved again, got to one other place, I can't now but still on the island and then there was now one strange traffic gridlock to ikoyi.. Got to work at past 4pm that day.. No be juju be that..

Chokhmah:

Stop looking for something to blame it on; take responsibility and be punctual.

Don't mind him. Giving excuses upandan.. He's not ready and he's lackadaisical about ensuring he's punctual.

avrilwisedata:
Don't mind him. Giving excuses upandan.. He's not ready and he's lackadaisical about ensuring he's punctual.

Ehen, so you think I leave home late and already have the mindset to blame it on Lagos traffic abi.. Well, it happens sometimes..

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?

When you start blaming something or someone else for your problem, you should then know that you're your own problem.

Start resolving your problem by getting to bed early, around 8pm. Put your bedside timer (buy one if you don't have it) on to wake you at 5am. Bathe, eat breakfast (1 hour is sufficient), and leave your house at 6 a.m.This works all the time if you keep to it.

Another thing is that, the distance from your home to your work place and your means of transportation (public or private vehicle) could affect or determine the right time you need to wake up in the morning.

Good luck!

Cooperations need to cut down on these 8-5 thing and allow as much flexibility as possible as long as the work is done.

Not encouraging being late but I wish your work could work around your schedule rather than the other way around. But then again it depends on the nature of one's job.

So yea Op like people have said, try to go to bed early and endeavor to wake up earlier than you would. Statistically, it takes 21 days for an habit to stick. Do this consistently for 21 days and hopefully you get results.

Pray without ceasing...

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

I actually tolerate stealing than perpetual lateness. It's frustrating. I've had many of your types as former staffs.
After 3 consecutive warnings, once you come late one more time, I tell you to pack your bags and go home. Fire you by text message and transfer whatever money you worked for in that month.

I wake up 4:30am every morning and by 7:30am, I am at work. If you come in 5minutes after 8:10am, everyday. It means you don't want the job.

We work in the health sector, your habitual lateness as a staff could kill people.

Write down your plans for the next day the night before, eat light, sleep early and when you wake up set out to follow what you've written down.
No morning TV, no Whatsapp

What l observed about late comers is that they like to give excuse about their bad habit.

I have a family friend, when she was teaching in community school, she must go to school late to the extent that sometimes she doesn't take anything reasonable salary home ( they must have deducted her money as fine for coming late to work).

Now, she has resigned and started her business. School bus will take her children to school by 7am, yet she will still get late to shop late. Opening around 11am. It is not spiritual, it is bad habit and they are not ready to change but to be giving excuse for their lateness.

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?

Plan your outing a night beforehand. EVERYTHING you need to do in the morning do it at night. The only thing to need to do in the morning is bathe.

Impregnable101:
I have a colleague like this OP.
Omoya can't just stop being late even if him life depends on it! Omoya fit wake up around 5am, me go wake up around 5:30am, omoya go put hand inside boxer begin play with him penis, me go pray then do press up, omoya go come carry Yoruba bible begin study, me go enter bathroom, omoya go come dey pray, me don come out from bathroom, omoya go begin sing Yoruba songs while still laying on his bed, me go ready go company restaurant go eat, omoya go come put on TV begin watch Emmanuel TV or, TVC news or Yoruba movie, me go return from restaurant, omoya go come finally enter bathroom, me go wear coverall begin go resume early morning safety briefing, omaya go come safety briefing 2minutes to end of meeting! Perpetual late comer!

. No be small tin

Sanmel:
Yeah.. I'm sometimes disorganized.. I scatter and rearrange alot..

Sophiatheninth:


Haha. I'm disorganized to the core. I laze about, I procrastinate. Phewwwwww

Lol,

If you're equally a forgetful person and you get easily distracted either during work or conversations...

Then chances are it might be an underlying condition.


Hard to say and hard to break it down.


But these things when constantly experienced (despite conscious efforts against them) may point to a 'possibility' of Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (Do a brief Google search if that could help).

Now, it's equally not easy to assume or chalk it up to this because everybody experiences these things from time to time and at various degrees, but when they occur too frequently and start affecting your daily life up to a point of concern then you may want to consider a medical evaluation.


It's very important you make confirmations before having assumptions however.

Because these things happen (as I earlier mentioned) to everybody from time to time and at various degrees; it makes it easy for it to get disregarded as an issue to be considered, and then people begin to tag you as lazy (as you've gotten to see through the thread).

Meanwhile you work twice as hard than the average person to accomplish the same things they do.


While my post may point you to a new direction, I'd implore that you filter the advices from the backlash on the thread. Some of them are actually helpful behavioural therapies (which though you may have to put double efforts to achieve) are actually very helpful.


I like to call them over-compensations.
Try to wake up way early even if it means by the time you'd be done and get to office you'd be over 1hour early.
Do it to save yourself and to be effective while you consider the medical aspect of it (if you choose to - depending on the degree at which it affects your quality of life).

By the way, if you can well relate to the post and you think you need more clarity or you're just interested in more information, Send an NL mail, we could have a good chat from there about it at no costs.

Cheers.


NB : This is not a medical advice. I'm not a medical practitioner or a psychologist, just happen to have good knowledge about the topic. Every action taken is at your own discretion.

Cc :

Olorilolo:
I used to be this person. I'm really proud that it's all in the past now. Nothing could make me go early anywhere, alarm , roommates, job interviews heck I was even late for my own wedding.

What I discovered was, I didn't know how to manage time.

Secondly, I wasn't organized.

iLoveYouToo:



I’m a meticulous person so even if I wake up 5am(which is impossible), I could spend 1hour+ tidying the kitchen and fixing breakfast for the dog.

Re :

Vertraulichkeit:


You can reach me through this moniker because I do not have access to the email I used to open that moniker.

Is this directed to me?

Are you Sophiatheninth?

You didn't quote me though

Have you tried taking your bath at night immediately before bed. It makes you wake up and simply brush your teeth and boom! You’re good to go! Try it. It works!

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?

It's because you are not in a company that has zero tolerance for lateness. If they are deducting 1k everyday you go late, all these excuses will.melt away. You will be the one to wake up the security man every morning.

But because they are condoning it, you think it's a spiritual problem. Continue

Sophiatheninth:
You're not alone. I used to be very punctual during my school days but immediately after school, it seems I stopped giving an f concerning being on time. NYSC was the worst. Church, same. Each time I try to discipline myself to report early, I end up showing up way too early. Even before the security.

I saw your PM. You can reach me via this email because I do not have access to the email I used to open this moniker.

Ayo081:


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