I’m an IT manager for a tiny non-profit org. I had one employee, older guy who was fine at what he did. Didn’t want to learn any of the new tech but was reliable at answering tickets and kicking things he didn’t know up to me.
He got caught by HR clocking in and leaving to go home for a few hours before coming back…as far as we can tell going back years. HR knew he clocked in way sooner than they saw him pulling into the lot. He admitted to going home to get some coffee.
I just had to sit their while my boss doled out the termination…but I still feel like shit. I was the one who was lenient when I started and said “I won’t be on your ass like the last guy, if tickets get solved and you’re nice to our users, that’s all I care about” but I did not expect this from him.
It’s honestly king shit, steal from your employers all you can…but don’t talk to the payroll person as you’re walking in from your time home. He’s union but since this is considered a severe infraction it doesn’t go through the progressive discipline process.
I hate this world and hate that I contributed to its perpetual suffering.
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Like you said, you just had to sit there while your boss fired the guy. Gotta be more clever when doing shit that’s explicitly fireable because expecting your immediate supervisor to lay down their job to protect yours is naive and selfish.
RIP to a real one, still cool as shit to appropriate company time for your own purposes
Well said. Thanks, friend.
Any time. It’s never fun to have to wear the mask and do the dance even if you’re only there for show. I’m a really bad foreman because I won’t enforce any rules regarding production
It’s a shame that this is basically what all work from home employees do, but he got fired because he had to be in office
i got fired once for doing a phone job interview in my car without clocking out lol
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ROFL that rules. Did you get the other job?
i did not but I got hired for the same job i was interviewing for somewhere else shortly after. worth it.
I did that for about a year because I had no one over me and where I worked was just big enough that no one would bother to keep track, would clock out and then back in for lunch then go home for a few hours.
The giant irony is I could probably do it too and get away with it because I also have nobody really watching over me either…
This guy would have too if he didn’t talk to HR on the way in! HR is never your friend, folks.
In one of the first places I’ve worked, you were supposed to clock in and out of lunch but they didn’t have a good way of controlling how long your lunch was, so I would purposefully clock my lunch to be 45min even though my lunch is supposed to be an hour. It worked because the clocking software basically took the times of the beginning and end of your shift and subtracted that by how long your lunch time duration was. You technically could have a 0min lunch by clocking in lunch and immediately clocking out lunch and the software would think you worked 1hour overtime, but that was way too obvious.
So 45min lunch it was. I did something like clocking in lunch at 12:07pm and clocking out lunch at 12:52pm. Of course, I wasn’t actually taking 45min lunches. People didn’t all go to lunch at the same time, so I would begin eating food at my desk at 11:30am in order to signal to people I’m at lunch, clock in lunch at 12:07pm for my official lunch that I was supposed to clock in at 12pm, and clock out lunch at 12:52pm that I was supposed to clock out at 1pm. Since my clock-in lunch was 45min, the extra 15min is overtime pay (well, on paper anyways except I also liked showing up 10min late, meaning most of the 15min gets used up to make up for showing up late lol).
yeah it really sucks to have to make these calls. for me mine felt like it was for the good of the team, but i couldn’t fully do it
so i left management and haven’t gone back despite pressure (also the money is shit)
