Employee Always Early, System Says They're Late, Boss Freaks Out

A worker was called into their manager immediately called took them aside and warned them that they were accruing a sizeable number of tardies. The thing is… the worker is always early. However, when the clock-in system fails, they end up clocking in late.

If you've ever worked anywhere that uses a system like this, then you know how strict employers can be about NOT clocking in early -lest you earn overtime and throw off their carefully budgeted labor costs. No, you must wait until precisely the moment your shift starts clocking in, but, on the inverse side of things, you'd better not even think about finishing your clock-in even a minute late.

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit by Redditor u/spraynprayin. They shared their experience with readers to vent and seek advice, which they were more than happy to do in the comments.

"Report them for wage theft due to their app not accepting your real clock in time," suggested user LooseSignificance166.

"This," replied user kirshi3. "A company payroll clock system not working properly 100% of the time all the time is NOT an employee's responsibility to deal with."

"My clock in process is 5 steps that take on average 3-8 minutes to complete. I show up on time, then spend those 3-8 minutes clocking in. It's not my job to begin working early because of a process I don't control."

"OP should indeed submit records to the labor board of every time they've missed out on pay because of this, otherwise the company won't learn."

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