If you are a small business owner and you are looking to make it in this economy, some of you may be forced to lay off workers. Then the tough part .. who do you lay off? I'll make it easy for you. Find the person who is late to work. Bingo. There you go. Ice story ... some calls to say they can't make it in. Move them to the front of the list.

I say this to you only because I just read that one out of every five workers in the United States are late to work at least once a week. That, my friends, is pathetic. And one out of every ten workers are late at least twice a week! Can you guess the most common excuse?

Traffic.

Others include lack of sleep and getting children ready for school or daycare. Look, folks, I understand that things happen. But a person who is not willing to get to work in the dark and drive home in the dark .. much less show up on time .. is not the kind of employee you need to keep around. Especially during times like these.