'[He] was not the brightest': Manager gets cheap, so career garage door repairman finagles himself and crew a 2-3 hour lunch and 7+ hours a person in overtime pay

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Nov 30, 2023 1:00 PM EST

Isn't it funny when managers try to act like the know what they're doing but it's actually painfully obvious that they have NO idea and they are just talking as a power move? It's so comical and, honestly, sad. If you're a clueless manager, let me let you in a on a little secret: nobody cares that you're in charge, they care about getting their job done efficiently and acting their wages. So, as a quick PSA to managers, stop making it about you being high up on the executive ladder, we all know nothing would run without the workers, so stfu. Anyways… Sorry, went a little off my rocker there. I got triggered by this Reddit story of a manager trying to pull some cheap manager stuff and getting it right where he deserved. 

Apparently it was a blue collar crew working on a garage door. The manager thought they were wasting his time and money (they were not, he just didn't understand the process), so he made this asinine rules that he thought would save him money. Joke was very much on him though, because the career garage door repairman saw it for what it was and now him and his crew got 2-3 hours for lunch instead of the 45 minutes, and each person 7+ extra hours of paid overtime. 

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    Posted by u/ReverendMuddy Grimes 1 day ago Go to the warehouse for lunch S OC
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    I am a career garage door repairman. About a decade ago I was working for a particularly cheap owner. He felt that the installers and I were robbing him with the amount of hours we were working. This
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    owner decided that the guys were taking longer lunch breaks than reported and clocking in earlier than he was willing to pay for. His solution was not the brightest. You had to clock in on time, and you
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    had to drive from wherever you were working back to the warehouse for your hour lunch. We always started. working about half an hour before clocking in. Loading our trucks and organizing our days. We
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    immediately stopped that. Our usual 45 minute lunch break (we never took the full hour) now could take up to three hours depending on drive time. Overtime went from roughly 2 hours a person per week
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    to almost 8. This lasted exactly one pay period. We all tried to tell him, but some people just don't understand until they see it.
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    JoeyJoeJoeJrShab. 1 day ago you had to drive from wherever you were working back to the warehouse for your hour lunch Wow.... even if it was only a 15 minute drive (which I'll bet it rarely is), that's still 30 minutes of lost
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    productivity per employee per day. That should have been super-obvious to even the dumbest of managers.
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    vintagecomputernerd. 1 day ago That should have been super-obvious to even the dumbest of managers. You overestimate the intelligence of people
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    JonVonBasslake. 19 hr. ago there's a reason for the terms middle manglement... Though not exclusive to middle management, as seen by OPS post, they seem the most likely to fall into this sort of mindset...
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    TheEPGFiles 1 day ago ● The older I get, the more I realize that a ton of people just don't want to be wrong. Oh, they don't want to use facts, or reality, in short to be factually correct isn't the goal, just not being wrong is all that matters.
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    This of course doesn't work well with also not wanting to hear "told you so". So, I've come to the point that words are meaningless and the process is to let people around and find out.
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    Problems aren't to be avoided, they are learning that are opportunities unavoidable for the stupid and stubborn.
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    StellarPhenom420 23 hr. ago a ton of people just don't want to be wrong. And if you point out why they're wrong, they'll just change what they're talking about. I've learned that discourse on the internet, especially social media, is mostly a pointless exercise.
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    litsalmon 1 day ago I would have been so tempted to take my lunch with me to the job site and eat it on the way back to the warehouse so I could do nothing during the "lunch hour".
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    SpringMan54 21 hr. ago · Back when I was a young kid, I had a job selling auto parts and driving a delivery truck. My route took me within 1/mile of my house. I arranged my route so that this would happen at about noon. Every day, I would stop at home in the
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    company truck and fix myself lunch. My boss thought I must be somehow ripping him off and made it a rule that I had to return to the store to clock out for lunch, about an hour round trip added to my route every day.
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    ecp001 21 hr. ago Some managers ● misinterpret "Take care of the small stuff and the big stuff will not need much care." They think it means micro-management but it really means be aware of the big stuff, especially the
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    stuff that is working, and then figure out and deal with the details that are getting in the way of productivity and morale. The mission of the business is paramount; the mission is NOT creating rigidity that increases costs, decreases
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    production and negatively affects morale-absolute time monitoring does all that and indicates the manager has too much time on his/her hands.
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    ScottBridge 15 hr. ago "Take care of the small stuff and the big stuff will not need much care." This and "the customer is always right" are two of the most misunderstood and commonly misused phrases in business today. First off, the
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    customer rarely knows what they want, they only know the problem they want to solve. And the "small stuff" they're talking about is to making each interaction profitable, and not just from a monetary standpoint.
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