'He's contradicted himself... his face went bright red': Retail employee begins clocking in four minutes late every day to protest boss's time-clock policy

How bold of this company to take a few minutes of every employee's day for free! U/afazihdob had a great workplace tale to share from their time working in retail. The OP laments that although they worked at numerous retail chains in their career, their bosses at one store were notoriously strict about latenesses.

If I were ever a manager at a retail or food place, I wouldn't be able to take clocking in seriously at all. I just don't think it's the end of the world if an employee is two minutes late, like the OP of this story was. Every employee should get at least five minutes of a grace period, ideally, if not more.

Unfortunately, for retail jobs, these minutes do matter, because what if someone leaves at 3pm and their replacement doesn't show up until 3:15pm? Those few minutes mean that managers have to fill in the gaps, instead of lounging in a back room playing on their phones. They have to be militant about their time clocks so that they can keep up with managerial busy work instead of having to ring up customers or sweep the floors. Check out this employees' story below, then read about how these people got back at their next door neighbors.

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