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Shouldve elaborated but days absent and late were printed on the appraisal with a chance to explain them and whether you thought it was acceptable. Not you having to list days down you thought you were late.

Now I'm home I can delve into other things.

If you were more than an hour late with no reasonable explanation you were likely dismissed. If you were absent without calling in due time then you'd be dismissed again. Unless you had very good reasons for not being able to make a 5 minute call.

I did have something similar to your case. It came under amount of days absent with reason. You had to answer whether the amount was reasonable or not. Luckily I'd never had any.

Because it was a yearly appraisal my company would discipline people excessively late when it occurred though and the same for abscences rather than allow that employee to sit on it for a year. Not me personally but a co-worker got a written warning via post and I believe that's the most serious discipline that ever occurred from the forms. As above though it seems daft to wait to dismiss someone they thought was off too much. It did leave you on 1 of three strikes though, so left you open for instant dismissal further on. Naturally you've been given one of those strikes now leaving you vulnerable further down the line.

I can understand the verbal warning part in the end given their dubious system but the amount of unsigned abscences vs signed ones is low enough for it not to really be an issue. It seems a bit extreme to me. I doubt anyone in my old company wouldve even got a warning for that.

Just sounds like an easy way to cut staff at the end of the period if they need too.