‘HR was even on my side’: Penny-pinching manager sneakily docks 1 hour per day from employee's timesheet, employee reports her but manager makes excuses to save face

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Dec 10, 2024 1:00 PM EST

During the holiday season, many customer service employees might be trying to get some extra hours in so they can make ends meet for all of their Christmas events they plan on attending, or their gifts they plan on giving.

Every hours counts when you're an hourly employee, so a toxic manager trying to commit wage theft shouldn't be taken lightly. You work for the money you have, and any higher-up trying to steal the money from out of your pocket should be reprimanded. Employees in positions of power try to pull fast-ones all the time, so nipping their entitled behavior in the bud is integral to keeping your workplace honest and fair—you are the crusader to protect your fellow employees! The battle starts now.

In this next story, an employee noticed an hour was docked from their time card every day they worked in a week, so they immediately went to HR to report it. The employee expresses that they don't get full lunch breaks during the busy holiday season, so they get their hourly rate during their lunch break to make up for the lack of downtime. HR was on their side and immediately went to the employee's direct manager to remedy the situation—but this entitled manager had a bunch of excuses that explained a whole lot of nothing. Scroll to read.

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    "She's just trying to get [us] to work holiday hours without the overtime."
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    Caught one of my bosses messing with my timecard then tried to gaslight me when I got her in trouble
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    My work is in sales and repair services. During the holiday season, it gets busy, so we can't take our lunch breaks and usually just grab quick bites from our break room during
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    downtime. Management even announces that it's to be expected. But there's one manager who's a real penny pincher and will try and find a way
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    to charge people for anything and everything. Yesterday, while clocking out, I noticed that there was an hour docked for every day of the week, so I
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    contacted HR, thinking they did it. HR was even on my side and said a manager broke protocol and just did it on their own accord and would fix the issue.
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    Show up today, and this manager came up to me and said it was my fault for not writing my lunch schedule in this file we have, and she messed with my timecard because
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    I was away from my station when she walked by at one point. Here are my obvious issues with this. She didn't take it from any of the sales staff,
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    that file is for sales staff because they have appointments I don't have appointments, she knows if I'm on break I put up a sign saying so and if
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    someone is looking for me on my break I always get a phone call bothering me, and I if I was on break why didn't she talk to me about not clocking out or if I even took a full hour break
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    which I never do. She's just trying to get to work holiday hours without the overtime.
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    4kray 21h ago Ask for your timesheet and hrs from previous paychecks. Might not be the first time your manager did this. Better yet talk to your peers, it could have happened to them.
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    Obxyz • 18h ago She got in trouble for stealing from you and breaking the law, that's on her
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    • Somethingissh... 21h ago. Illegal of them, taking time away like that. I frequently have to modify timesheets for some of my staff while I'm reviewing/approving every week as they mess up a lot (use wrong codes, forget to put things in, things on wrong days, etc - I keep
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    having to retrain the same staff over and over and over). Though I sometimes have to move things or slightly correct math, I never take time they actually worked away. I always inform them of all changes I'm making before submitting, and if they're unclear why the change happened, I explain.
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    • shadowimage 16h ago. Take your full hour lunch from now on and see how fast things change. Also update your resume because this person is going to be a pain in your a
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    Interesting_Ad_9... OP.16h ago I'm using this as a stepping stone. I'm supposed to be sent to a school for my job; hopefully, this spring, then I'll be sent to a different branch. This branch is definitely the shadiest of groups. Nothing they do is on the up and up. I even have a supervisor who
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    openly states that she hates men and is extremely passive aggressive because I won't let her break the regulations that involve me. If some of these companies find out we are not following their standards, they're allowed to terminate our contract, costing millions. And my career relies on a good standing with them as an individual.
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    Helpjuice · 14h ago Full audit time from the entire time you have been working at the company. A manager doing this is malicious and they should never modify your time card or make any changes without you authorizing
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    them unless there is documented and recorded evidence of an employee putting in incorrect hours. which would have the blessing of HR, and Legal as a part of an investigation.
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    Ok-Horror-42... • 48m ago. what do parents say when they catch a kid in a lie? if you've done it once, you've done it 10 times...100 times.
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