'It's only late if you show up without coffee': Posts for perpetually late employees finally ready to clock in for just the laughs

Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor

Sep 7, 2025 8:00 PM EDT

Are you late to work once again and in a bad mode? Let the internet turn that frown upside down with these funny posts about the exact predicament you are currently in! It's okay to be late. Heck, there's a reason it's called showing up "fashionably" later. Because being late really creates a certain leadership energy around you. Like the queen says in The Princess Diaries, a queen is never later, everyone else is simple early. And you're a queen, bestie. So tell that boss to take a chill pill and hand them one of the coffees you picked up on the way to work that made you late. That'll make them think that you're actually just being efficient because you would've left for coffee any way. So you did it on the way to work! That's just being smart if you ask us. So embrace your lateness and be cool, man. Let's have some laughs about how time is simply just a human construct and life keeps rolling whether we show up "on time" or not.

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Sure, sure, sure, your job needs you to be on time. And maybe show up on time every now and then to throw them a bone, but don't let them make you forget who you really are! And that's someone who doesn't bend the knee to the social construct of “being on time.”
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