How would you explain getting fired for being late?

My husband was only late 25% of the time he was accused of being late. All the tardies were for 1 or 2 minutes! How should he explain this to a potential employer? He has timecards from a time clock to prove it was only 1 or 2 minutes.

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Late is late, and rules are rules. No potential employer wants to hear a sob story like that when in reality, since it was a regular problem, he could have simply left for work 5 minutes earlier and avoided the tardiness.

However, what's done is done, and I would recommend not even mentioning the fact that he was fired to potential future employers. Let them try to find out on their own, which they probably won't. If the company that fired him is large and has a dedicated human resource department, they will likely only verify dates of employment when contacted for a reference.

If the former employer is a small company, and they would be calling the secretary who he was in the office with every day, that could be another story, as they can be blabbers and relish that kind of stuff.

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