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Late? Your boss won't believe your excuses

 The next time you arrive late for work, don't start giving excuses to your boss, for a new study has found that employers don't believe excuses for not coming on time. The study involving 1,000 employers showed that just seven percent of them trusted the reasons that their employees give for being late. 

One in five respondents said long, over-complicated stories were the biggest giveaway. Almost a third said avoiding eye contact was another hint. A fifth of bosses said hearing the same excuse again and again made it less convincing, while 12 percent said any excuses given on a Monday morning were even less believable. Nearly two-third of employers believe that they were experienced enough to tell when an employee is lying about why they were delayed. 

"As a nation, problems within our homes certainly seem to be a common reason given for lateness" . "If we are to believe even half the excuses included in this study, then we anticipate a lot of calls about emergency home cover or claims for accidental damage this winter," 

But few of us will say like this :

 I am very punctual in coming late to office. My management asked me to be punctual. But im on my own way. But if there is any internal meeting, client meeting etc. Im before time. For me business is business. Professionalism is not to have any excuse for clients. Other than that quality work n delivery matters. Management is comfortable on that.  Comng late or soon is not the matter of professionalism. Once given responisblity to lead a team. Be on time. Even work or no work( :) )

Finally , 

Why to give a false excuse..?, just say the truth that i spelt for a long time. In india we work for 10-12 hours instead of the 9 hours. When most of the techies stay late & work for more hours till late night, the bosses should also expect that some times comming late is not a problem.
I worked for  ***  working 12-14 hrs a day from 9 Am to 9-10Pm  & again go to office at 9 but some times i & my team mates reach at 10 or even 11 my boss doesnt had a problem with that since he knew we were working more that the usual office times just to complete the Project in time.