A Walmart manager's notice was heavily criticized on Reddit. The employee notice asked workers to clock out minutes early, presumably to avoid OT pay.
A viral Reddit post uploaded to the site's r/walmart sub shows a photograph of an employee notice sign posted in a Walmart store chastising workers for staying clocked in past their allotted work times.
The sign also appears to name some employees in particular, indicating that they need to re-adjust their shifts by a few minutes so that they aren't paid for any time past those hours, sparking speculation that managers are attempting to stop employees from potentially earning overtime pay.
The image of the sign, which was uploaded by user @Grizzlypupper reads: "Atte[n]tion all associates...everyone needs to only work as many hours as they are scheduled. (If you are scheduled 5 hours do not go over that)"
Going on, the employee notice read: "These are associates that need to leave early due to going over their scheduled hours yesterday. Make up this time before Friday if you are not here today."
The rest of the sign seems to show a number of employee names, all of them crossed out presumably to protect their identities, indicating who needs to clock out "early" in order to not go above their scheduled shift time allocations that range from 5 to 15 minutes.
It appears that the stringent time keeping practices are probably a means at reducing business expenditures for employees' salaries.
A number of commenters were shocked...
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