'How fast do I quit?': Boss emails employee scolding them for clocking in 1 minute late from unpaid break

• Life just doesn't always work out. Sometimes you're 5 minutes late or so, and there's nothing you could've done to prevent that. Like, maybe a car swerved in front of you on the drive to work, causing you to miss your exit. Or maybe the train you took to work stopped moving in the middle of a tunnel, leaving everyone stranded for a while. You can tell all that to your boss, and they'll nod, tell you to start working, then have you sign a write-up slip as soon as they can. 

  But why would this boss send a whole email over a one-minute time discrepancy? Was the boss right for this? Should the employee quit because of it? 

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  Boss asking employee why she's late returning from her unpaid break. 

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• I think we can safely assume that this person is an hourly worker. Just want to say, props to them. Minimum wage jobs are the worst! The hours are long. You're often on your feet for 8 hours straight (or longer). The bosses don't really help out, leaving employees to incur the wrath of cranky customers during peak rush times. A lot of these bosses just have a general tendency toward being suspicious of their workers, too. They don't want them to play music, or talk with other workers, or really have a good time at all. 

  The good news, possibly, is that almost every job you have in the corporate world will be 100x easier than a food service or retail job. So if you're in college or working towards a career like that, just keep in mind that these are the toughest working days of your life, and things will get better. Even if they don't plan to leave this type of work, they can always move up to management easily, and that is a lot nicer than being an hourly employee. 

  However, the question remains: should they quit over this one email? Is that enough of a reason to leave entirely, or is it just a simple email that can be ignored? 

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  I don't think it seems automated. But it could just be a form email of sorts, like something the manager has to do as a technicality, knowing that it doesn't really mean anything IRL. 

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