'I can make it work': Employee finds a loophole in strict new clocking system, forcing management to pay him 3x overtime than any other employee

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    Overtime FED TAX 145- FICA 9413 STATE/PROV TAX 37 30 UNEMPLOYMENT Gross MISC/SO Deduct 29120 MISC/INSURANCE 1477 No 939 0 START WORK STOP IN OUT ACCUMULATED HOURS TOTAL TASA COMMENTS 8:00 4:00 8 8:00 5:00 9 8:004:00 8 8:00 6:00 14 004.00 8 IHR Pages Paid through De And the number of withhol The amount of income tax to $158 164 170
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    ""We don't pay extra time if it's under 15minutes" - Okay, I can make it work"

    I was a software engineer for a company and out of nowhere they implemented an eletronic control on our work time. Before that we would work extra on good
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    faith, if I had to do 2 more hours one day, the next day I could get in 2 hours later without a problem. In the new system I had to clock in
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    at 8am (if I didn't it would consider I was late and "lose" the entire first hour) and clock out at 5pm. With 1 hour lunch break.
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    Work laws here in Brazil are different from the ones in the US and most of the posts here. If the company tracks your work time, they HAVE to pay you extra time
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    on anything over 40hours/week. Sometimes I would get in a bit earlier like 8:50 or something and leave at
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    5:10pm. At the end of the first month I was surprised my extra hours were 0 ( on the previous system I wouldn't care, but they were the ones that decided
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    to track this). I decided to do some digging on how the tracking software worked and found out that anything less than 15 minutes per check in was
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    completely ignored (99% sure that was against the law but I could work with that). From that day on guess who arrived 16 minutes
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    earlier everyday. Came back from lunch 16 minutes earlier (if I was done and had nothing else to do) and left 16 minutes later.
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    At the end of the second month management called me in to explain why I had over 3 times more extra hours than most of the other workers. I just told
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    them to check their system, I'm not the one keeping track of that anymore. To my surprise they actually did pay everything that was owned (I could sue and
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    easily win) and DID NOT change how the system worked. I kept doing that for another 3 months before changing jobs to a remote one.
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    Overtime1 Overtime2 3 Rate FED TAX STATE/PROV. TAX 145- FICA 9413 MISC./SDI 37 30 Gross 1230 50 UNEMPLOYMENT Deduct. 29130 MISC./INSURANCE 1477 Net 939 30 2 M (For Wages Paid through De And the number of withhold 34 5 The amount of income tax to $297 303 $251 $205 $158 309 315 263 263 211 164 217 170 223 176 182 $122 10 107 2281 188 194 200 206 212 125 111 110 119 123 131 218 224 135 START STOP WORKED ACCUMULATED IN OUT HOURS TOTAL TASK COMMENTS 8:00 4:00 8 8:00 5:00 9 8:004:00 8 16:00 10 IHR. O
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    Korinin38 Inflexible systems are made to be broken. Nice to hear that the employer actually paid you afterwards.
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    pancaf My brother used to work a job that rounded to the nearest 15 minutes. If you come in at 6:07am you're paid as if you came in at 6am. If you leave at 1:53pm you get paid as if you left at 2pm. So guess who came in 7 minutes late and left 7 minutes early every day XD
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    zyyntin When a system is broken. You must show them that it is broken and let it fail.
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    Togakure_NZ I had to clock in at 8am (if I didn't it would consider | was late and "lose" the entire first hour) Well, no point turning up at 8.01 if they were going to dock your pay for the whole hour.
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    Stupid rule by the company, trains everyone to either be on time or an hour late, without fail. No getting in five minutes later than the due start time anymore.
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    nogue2k OP You could get until 8:14 and not be considered late. But most people didn't even know how the system actually worked and though it tracked the minutes correctly
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    reygan_duty_08978 Beating the system and getting away with it always feels nice, specially if you get more money for free for it

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