I love all these guys who are like well if your late your late. In my opinion if the door is open then the gate has time to get you on. Where I work we have done this for probably every airline out there. If you commute you know what it's like to be running your ass off to try and make it home, possibly on the last flight of the day. It literally takes the gate 2-3 minuets to check CASS and get you on. If it is ten minuets prior to departure and they are still dealing with revenue passengers for that flight, then that flight is not going out on time anyways. It comes down to pure laziness and power. I have had Captains that have told gate agents that they would not block out until the jump seater was on; and guess what all of a sudden they get in done in seconds and you are out on time with minuets to spare. If the gate would have done it to begin with 5 or 10 minuets earlier it wouldn't have even been an issue. And for those of you who are like hey thats tough, shame on you. We are all in an industry where we are away enough as it is. We may not all see eye to eye on many issues but we should all be sympathetic to those who are just trying to get to and from work. I think we can all do a better job making sure that our fellow pilots get in our empty seats.