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Student A has been asked by a Teacher to bring Student B to their
supplementary lesson. When confronted Student B remembers that the teacher
said something about a supplementary lesson and after failing to escape is
dragged to their lesson by Student A.  
Upon arrival Student B says

> さっさと補講とやらを始めてくれ

and the Teacher responds

> 遅れておいてその態度はいただけませんよ

I'm mostly confused with what the ておいて means because I thought ておく could only
be used with transitive verbs but 遅れる is intransitive.

I tried figuring out what it could mean and came to two possibilities  
_" Putting your lateness aside"_ (Let's bring up your lateness (遅れて) and then
put it down (おいて))  
_" You're late"_ with the teacher believing that the lateness is intentional
by Student B (The being late (遅れて) was put into effect and kept that way
(おいて))  
But they're really just shots in the dark trying to make some logical sense of
it and I still don't understand why ておく can be there.
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What's the meaning of 遅れておいて
First of all, (-て)おく as a subsidiary verb **can** be used also with
intransitive verbs. For example, 明日は試合だから今晩はよく寝ておく is a perfectly valid
sentence even though 寝る is intransitive. All [those subsidiary
verbs](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/18965/5010) can be used regardless
of the transitivity of the main verb.

おく has several meanings. The best-known is "to do something in advance", but
おく in the sentence in question means "to do something and leave/forget it".
You may know おく is used like this:

  * 彼には好きなように言わせて **おこう** 。  
Let him say whatever he wants to say.

  * あいつのことは放って **おけ** 。  
Leave him!

In your case, おいて in 遅れておいて is difficult to translate, but it indicates he has
done nothing after being late. This ～ておいて is a common pattern used to blame
someone for doing something (usually bad) and not worrying about it. Examples:

  * あいつは大失敗をしておいて反省すらしない。
  * あの人はたくさん食べておいてお金を払わずに店を出て行った。
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