Companies love talking about fairness, but the rules only ever seem to favor one side.
One workplace rolled out a new timekeeping policy that immediately caught employees off guard, docking a full 15 minutes of pay for clocking in just one minute late. Of course, this conveniently ignored any extra minutes worked past the scheduled shift end.
When someone asked management why the math only worked one direction, the answer landed about as well as you’d expect: staying late to finish tasks was simply “expected.”
That explanation didn’t sit right with employees, who started gathering by the time clock at exactly 4:55 every single day, refusing to give away a single unpaid minute more.
Keep reading — redditors had some strong opinions on this one!
My job rounds every minute in their favor and management actually put it in writing
We got a new timekeeping policy this month, and I thought I was misunderstanding it until my manager explained it.
The policy wasn’t so kind to the people actually doing the work.
If you clock in at 8:01 instead of 8:00, they deduct 15 minutes because you’re considered late for that block.
But if you stay until 5:08 finishing something, you still get clocked out at 5, because anything under 15 minutes of extra time supposedly doesn’t count.
Soon one of the employees bravely chimed in — and the employer said the quiet part out loud.
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