First day at work

[Icykhool]

It was normal Monday morning for all of us. There was one deadline for proposal, so lot of traffic in our office. I came to our front desk to grab something and saw one young man in his early 20s standing in front it. He cleared his through and ask me very politely about RFQ. I told him that it is last day of submission and if you take RFQ right now there is very small amount of time to work on it for hm. He said nothing and took the RFQ from front-desk. 12:00 am was end time of submission. all our contractors submitted their proposals to us except that young boy. 12:10 that guy came with his proposal and requested to except it. When I told him about deadline, he said that there was traffic and he is just 10 minutes late. I still refused it. i saw his face turn red and confidence vanished from his face and he stated looking really pail. He requested again and said this is his first day at work and there was big confusion.
In this economical situation, I can understand loosing this contract means for him is losing his job.
What I should do here? What would have you guys do in such a situation?

[Georgea]

Hi there,
I think you are a little bit to tight with your deadlines. I'm not saying that he is excused, but 10 ain't much (now depends on the nature of the work).
I would have had received his labor but in the same time i would have had a discussion with him. Nevertheless the first day of work is not an excuse, you can loose your job and receive a bad feedback for this situation.
All the best!

[Kiprida]

Dear Icy,

There are systems, of course they are online submitted by potential contractors, where deadline is precise and system gets closed at fixed time.

If I were you I would accept the documents in case if I didn't need to record the time of documents received. 10 minutes according to Fuzzy Logic is nothing :)

Last year we gave ads to newspapers regarding a tender. Many companies took part in Info Day and get informed and had bussiness cards where they could send tender documents. The deadline was fixed. But 2 days after the deadline we received a call from one company. IT's responsible representatives kindly asked us to accept their documents and we decided not to refuse them. Guess what! Eventually that company won the tender, because it was the best one!

Giving chance to someone we give one more chance for ourselves I think.

~Phoebe
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[Icykhool]

Guys,
I really feel bad about that guy because it was his first day. Every had their fistday and everyone got a chance to make second day. i just pray for that guy because my manager refused to accept his proposal. :(