What's the most reliable alibi if you are late and your boss caught you ?

hi, when i arrive in my work late and my boss will know it the first reason that i will tell is the road has a heavy traffic and suddenly blocked me on my way,i also greet my boss even i am late and of course i will smile even he looks angry with me.

Never give an alibi rather speak the truth. Who knows, your honesty might reward you for a gesture worth emulating. It won't make you less of an employee though...

Coming late at work and worse with your Boss already in and was able to witness your tardiness is very embarrassing indeed. I believe no amount of alibi can save your face in this kind of situation, unless of course your Boss has been seeing you really punctual every day except on that particular day. I don't believe in making alibi. Whenever late, then accept your fault and do better the next time around. You know what you should always remember this quotation: "A Boss is someone who is late when you are early and early when you are late." This quotation is almost always true and hence we should be on time always so that our Boss could find no reason to terminate or discredit us.

If I were you, I suppose tell them that I was stuck in traffic, and I wasn't intentionally to be late for today. Would your boss buy this lie?

There is really no excuse for being late. Whatever that is, you can't change the fact that you are late. Just don't do it often, as this may have a bad impact on your evaluation let's say for your annual increase. What I find good in my company is that they are flexible when in comes to timing-in. It doesn't mater if you come in late as long as you've rendered the required 8 working hours. Lucky me!

Hahaha! I can see myself in you. Before I always came late at work. I cannot use traffic as an excuse because I should allot more time to prepare. So, I'll just greet him, say sorry and then assured him that I will finish all the assignments for the day (or even in advance) to make it up being tardy :-)

Car trouble - if I really have car trouble. Or weather, like freezing rain, in which alott of other people come in late too. Basically, I'm not late for work. I believe it's easy not to be late. You find out what time you have to leave your house to ge tot work in time, and you leave at that time. And better early than late. I live about a half hour from work. I have to be there at 9. I make sure I leave twenty after 8 the latest, usually 15 after. So I never have o make up excuses.

Hi Lei, You said you are arriving late in your title but then in your discussion you say you are arriving ahead of time so I'll answer as if I were in both situations. I've never been an hour and a half late to work without my boss knowing way way ahead of time that I might be or would be and why. I respect my boss and if I did happen to come in that late I would feel I owed him an explanation. I could not just come into work that late and not have a reason and my reason would be the truth along with an appology. I would hope that he would understand since it isn't something that would happen as a rule. Now showing up ahead of time...done that a few times. Famous for looking at the clock wrong. Once I showed up over an hour early and ran and thought I was late. I ran in and appologized for being late and said I'd lost track of time. He just laughed. I didn't. I work out of town so it didn't make sense for me to go back home just to come back in but I did have a lot of other things that I could have been doing besides waiting for my shift to begin!

being late is actually a big no no for me... coz i wanted people to come always on time. especially my line of work is into events, i see to it that everybody are all in before the scheduled time. before the event will start. honestly, when someone is late, i feel disappointed because its an act of irresponsibility. if there's really an unavoidable circumstances happened, a very valid reason, just be very polite to apologize if you're asked why your late... but if not, just go to your designated working area and work hard...

Just like exactly what you did. We can think of a lot of things to say but the boss will always find a way to contradict it. If it is because of traffic, he'd say , then you could have at least left earlier. If it is difficulty in getting a ride, you could have find another route or taker a cab or wake up at dawn when less commuters are still sleeping (rude!) Even if we are going to make alibis , the fact is we are late and that's what the boss sees. So, it is better not to say anything at all about your being late.Nd yes, work as hard as you can to compensate for your unintended shortcoming.

I'm a little confused with you here. Your topic asks if you're late, but you're saying that you arrived ahead of the schedule, meaning you arrived EARLY, hence you're NOT LATE. Anyway, to answer you're discussion topic, best alibi would be broken down car, or you were part of a collision somewhere, or you had LBM and waited for it to subside. To answer you're supposed 'elaboration' of your topic, if I'm really early (as in the case you mentioned that I arrived really early), I'll just go straight to my workplace and browse the Internet or catch some sleep

I told the truth, even when it was because I was lazy in getting up. But I would add that was because I did not have a good sleep the night before.

I think everyone has been late for work.If I happen to be late and the boss found out,I will not hide and continure to work hard.