Good story. I have always been one to be early, but worked at a job some years ago, for which one of the employees was chronically late. This was frowned upon, of course, but the only penalty was people frowning about it. She decided to turn over a new leaf and try to be on time more. After she had been on time for 8 out of 10 days in a 2 week period, the boss went all nuts making a big deal about how wonderful she was. Man, was I PISSED about that.
Maybe that is why she was paid less??