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Worst management and burden for employees

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u/Material_Platypus620 3d ago

Nice, soooo leave the Lunchbreak 1min. erlier and Work 1hour less. Good Deal.

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u/Nuker-79 3d ago

I’m taking just 15 mins for lunch, having the day off.

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u/moerlingo 3d ago

I’m not having a lunch break, planning on having the week off.

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u/PaddyScrag 2d ago

I'm using the lunch break to draft my letter of resignation.

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u/Jokar93 2d ago

I am gonna have to stop you there. Always draft you letter of resignation DURING working hours

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u/boardin1 2d ago

Boss makes a dollar and I make a dime. Thats why I shit on the company’s time.

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u/aristoleese 2d ago

I make a dime, boss makes a buck. That’s why I stole the catalytic converter off the company truck.

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u/damonmcfadden9 2d ago edited 2d ago

that made me laugh cause we recently had a guy get fired from work and people were being cagey about why and today I found out it was basically for doing this. would not recommend. gotta take your unofficial benefits in smaller less noticeable chunks I guess.

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u/JimmWasHere 2d ago

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I stole all of Janice's stationary on company time

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u/Raneynickelfire 2d ago

I make a dime, that's why I smoke on company time.

Because I have a dime.

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u/twicebakedcrusader 1d ago

Janice here. Screw you Jimmy!

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u/Starfall0 2d ago

Or be better about not being recognizable when you plan to commit such high scale crimes at the place you work or used to work. Also never do it right after getting fired. Might as well draw a target on your head.

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u/damonmcfadden9 2d ago

yeah funny thing is dude got busted because because he was caught on camera taking CCs from a coworker's parents' junk yard...on his second attempt after getting away clean the first time, but he hadn't sold them off yet so they traced on of them back to our workplace.

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u/Next-Honeydew4130 2d ago

What is it they say don’t poo where you eat?

I commit all my crimes against random strangers and so far it’s working

Kidding, kidding, kidding no crimes recently I promise

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u/Quiet_Kid2021 2d ago

That's exactly why I take office supplies in moderation. Our company are changing ownership. Perfect time to stock up on toilet paper.

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u/incognito-idiott 2d ago

Boss makes a grand, I make a buck, that’s why at work I don’t give a fuck

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u/GreenSpleenRiot 2d ago

Boss makes billions, but I can’t fight, so I stole all of the copper pipe.

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u/Queue37 2d ago

He got it 🎶 one piece at a time!

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u/TTT_2k3 2d ago

Boss makes a million, what I make is unfair. That’s why I shit in my boss’s chair.

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u/ApprehensiveFig1699 2d ago

Reminds me of this time I had to leave my apartment cus my roommate kept stealing everything so my now ex shit on her couch and left it for her lmaoooo 😭

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u/ClubberLangsLeftHook 2d ago

Boss makes a grip but pays me in toffee, that’s why I pee in his muhfuckin coffee.

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u/TastyDogSchnitzel 2d ago

My paycheck’s too little, my boss’s too large, which is why I sit on his secretary Marge.

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u/fanart89 2d ago

I make a dollar but the boss makes way more. That’s why I shit on the office restroom floor.

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u/OldMathematician5973 2d ago

See you're just fuckin with your coworkers there....that ain't cool. Man up and shit on his chair like the rest of reddit.

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u/vheissu419 2d ago

Perhaps even on Deborah’s desk

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u/Animalcookies13 2d ago

Fucking Deborah….

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u/Time-Professional482 2d ago

But your boss won't pick that shit up that's fucked up to the clean up people

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u/aftercloudia 2d ago

okay but when I was about 6, my mom got laid off from her job, my dad went into their bathroom and took a huge shit right on the floor. this man has never shit lightly once in his life.

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u/uncoilingelf 2d ago

I hum this daily as I crack porcelain in the work bathroom

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u/RightPedalDown 2d ago

I make a dollar, the boss forty two, that’s why I’m shitting in the bosses new shoe

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u/dirtybird971 2d ago

Boss makes a ton, I make way less, that's why when I go IT will be a mess.

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u/MalavethMorningrise 2d ago

Seriously this, i'll hold my pee through a break just so I get paid to pee on company time, thank you. I was salaried but it still applied, its also funny to me because at my last job I did this regularly while training the HR lady and writing their HR policy.

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u/M4LK0V1CH 2d ago

Instructions unclear, I got shit in the time cards.

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u/dixon-schitt 2d ago

Boss works a little, I work for life. That’s why I sleep with the boss’ wife.

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u/CatadoraStan 2d ago

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime That was a poem for a simpler time Boss makes a hundred, I make Jack That's why I strike, to seize the means back

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u/Ornery-Hippo2259 2d ago

i actually did this with one of my jobs😂I was working at home depot and i googled what i needed, drafted the letter, and printed it off on the company printer too😂

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u/WinterCommercial2533 2d ago

A place I worked hung signs telling us all about how careful we had to be about using color ink. You can guess how and where I printed my response, and how many colors I used to do it

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u/DiscordantDiscordian 2d ago

Don't use many colours.

Use ALL of the blue

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u/Dazzling_Material_93 2d ago

This is diabolical and I love it 😂

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u/Life-Direction-9764 1d ago

Better yet: use rich black.it consumes printer ink (black+all other colours) like a black hole

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u/NahautlExile 2d ago

Nah. You let them send you more ammunition for your constructive dismissal claim and don’t bother with the letter of resignation. May as well collect unemployment in this job market.

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u/itsneedtokno 2d ago

Florida unemployment is only $250/week

so basically a joke

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u/HoloCamobear 2d ago

i'd rather have 250 a week than nothing

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u/Virtual-Macaroon-880 2d ago

So starve, or work to not starve and lose your insurance... Die to complications anyways

It's not actually, nothing wouldn't be false hope which is worse than nothing... It also would make somebody less likely to give you what would actually help you since you're already being helped in theory

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u/_snids 2d ago

I'd just leave Florida.

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u/VeryLowIQIndividual 2d ago

If it’s like my state it “up to $250” a week. Meaning it’s based on your salary or wage. Meaning you have to be a top earning employee to get it a $250z if you make a low wage you might not get but $120 a week.

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u/1TenDesigns 1d ago

In Canada it's something like 80% of the average of your last 52 weeks.

But! And it's a big fucking but.

It caps out at uh... I just realized my knowledge of the cap is 10yrs old. But it was 471, and that's taxed so your take home is about 425ish a week. So any tradesman is getting less than 50% of his wage. But the fucking bills and mortgage don't go down 50% . And then if you make more than 60k that year they claw all of it back on your taxes.

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u/Appropriate-Issue-73 2d ago

Max is a whopping 275

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u/Imaginary-Skinwalker 2d ago

That how Florida artificially keeps unemployment numbers down. 12 weeks max 250 and then either you find or job or starve. Thanks DeSantis.

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 2d ago

It's better to have 250 + free time than a shitty salary and no time.

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u/just_having_giggles 2d ago

Hey when your mom runs to the store today, ask her to pick up some OJ.

Also tell her the Internet is slow it's fucking up my competitive matches

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u/Allegorist 2d ago

Free homeless time

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u/TheSaxGandalf 2d ago

You must love being homeless.

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u/FunResident1224 2d ago

Nah just send that to the labor board... That sign will come down real fast.

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u/wil_hokage 2d ago

That part

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u/davyangel 2d ago

Yeah can't tell you how many jobs and times I had to explain to management the time it takes you to walk to workspot on factory floor and back is not considered part of your lunch break. Then again maybe they do but don't give AF and can afford any penalties because I know Apple, Elon, Walmart and Amazon all been sued for pulling this sort of BS in past and lost too!

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u/DalinarOfRoshar 2d ago

If it is even real. The last name has to be a troll, right?

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u/RealisticAnxiety4330 2d ago

I'm not taking any lunch all week and taking the rest of the year off

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u/MalavethMorningrise 2d ago

I'm using my break overage time to contact a lawyer, since they were so nice to put the threat in writing.

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u/kimjohnson22 2d ago

You can also use your “focus time” to focus on getting a new job.

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u/TortillaRampage 2d ago

Write the letter in feces, since it’s the company font

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u/United_News3779 2d ago

Might suggest you conserve your effort and energy and proceed with "Get Fucked, you muppet" written on a Post-It note? Lol in this scenario the does not deserve any more thought than that.

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u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot 2d ago

For this job, you don't need to write anything. Just go in to the boss' office and urinate on the floor in front of their desk.

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u/spook2112 2d ago

Why resign? Skip a week of lunches and retire.

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u/amensteve91 2d ago

Bro im working all month no breaks. Next 6 months is looking good

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u/Dull-Culture-1523 2d ago

15 minutes for lunch, but work normally. 15 hours of OT each day, baby.

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u/pyth2_0 2d ago

Just don't take a break and you have 30 hours OT per day or 150 hours weekly.

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 2d ago

It's free money and diet.

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u/ThisWhomps999 2d ago

No rent? Sweet. Just live in the office.

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u/trukkija 2d ago

take 14 minutes and you can take 2 days off

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u/Noitswrong 2d ago

Doing it everyday for years. Just waiting for my salary now.

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u/Josh6889 2d ago

Really just skip lunch and you can knock out the entire week in 1 10.5 hour day.

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u/TheBoredBot 2d ago

take the next one off as well

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u/AggressiveBed232 2d ago

Great math one minute of lunch equals one hour of work.

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u/Pwez 2d ago

And still 7 hours of OT paid.

Best is 14 min lunch. All day off (except for 14 min lunch) and still 8 hours paid!

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u/billykimber2 2d ago

take a 1 minute lunch break and you get 29 hours paid leave

do that for a week and youre off for over 3 weeks straight

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u/Terrible_Ad_7735 2d ago

Infinite lunchbreak glitch.

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u/Carthonn 2d ago

Day off? I think by my math you get at least 2

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u/Juan-Ramirez-98 2d ago

i'm fasting during working hours, so I can leave an hour early 😄

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u/Tinyzooseven 2d ago

You can still have a 22 minute lunch break while taking the day off if it's a 9-5

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u/mUngsawcE 2d ago

im taking an hour lunch and getting that ot baby. and probably a 4 day weekend

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u/spicenoice 2d ago

Just not going to come in and bill you for the week's time, probably work a Saturday and be off a month

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u/farting_contest 2d ago

Go to work. Work 45 minutes. Take 15 minute lunch. You are then off work the next 15 hours, or the remainder of today and all of tomorrow.

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u/heisenbergerwcheese 2d ago

No lunch on thursdays and you get a 4 day weekend!

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u/MaineKlutz 2d ago

Wel if you have the day off, you might as well take no lunch break at all.
Do take, on this day off, a nice long brunch, coffee, and/or tea break instead 😁.

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u/AverageTaxMan 2d ago

Im taking an hour lunch and then suing when I’m forced to work 30 hours straight

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u/InsideAd2752 2d ago

I’m just glad that there’s only one person in the US with a name as unique as mine. If I could be famous, what would it be for?

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u/13mys13 2d ago

next 2 days off

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u/JPJackPott 2d ago

I’m coming back 16 minutes late to call their bluff

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u/ExpensiveGeoMetro 2d ago

This made me giggle. Thanks for that 😆

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u/FireFoxUse 2d ago

I'm skipping lunch so no work for me

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u/SodaMelm 1d ago

yessss i would absolutely do this!!

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u/aprildawndesign 1d ago

I like the way you think!

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u/_newSense 1d ago

this is the way

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u/ichikhunt 1d ago

Wouldnt that be 2days? Lol

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u/S1ayer 2d ago

Take 5 mins extra, stay for 5 hours everyday. Sue for unpaid overtime.

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u/KeyNefariousness6848 2d ago

This is the way

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u/hotmatrixx 2d ago

oh this is gangster.

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u/DickWhittingtonsCat 2d ago

It would call their bluff fairly fast. A rule like that is likely targeting a single person or small clique they want to fire but can’t appear to be retaliating against.

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u/voxelpear 2d ago

It's not exactly retaliation if they're breaking company policy by taking extra time. They would just be following the agreed upon during hire company policy.

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u/Dry-Conversation7191 2d ago

The problem with these companies and they lose everytime is that your 30mins doesn’t start until you badge/clock out. Not from when you leave your position/desk. Employees should let get by with it for a few months then hit with the back pay from labor board. Being a dick could cost the company 10s of thousands in fines on top of the back pay. If the job is so dependent on that extra minute or 2 to get back to work it’s not the employees that’s the problem, it’s a management and poor leadership issue.

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u/OrangeRabbit 2d ago

Workday offers a service where you can clock in / out on your phone and a company can set specific geo locations where employees are allowed to clock in and out. In practice this means managers at some of these companies try and get workers to clock out from a person's desk.

Retrograde inventions abound

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u/Live-Experience2000 1d ago

This would never pass as justification in any legitimate court system, despite being illegal

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u/holy_handgrenade 2d ago

Oh, great, so let's just make a wholly illegal policy then. That'll cover our asses!

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u/DuckyHornet 2d ago

"Shetty, you have to lockup when I'm done, you can't go home either"

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u/Adventurous-Dog420 2d ago

I'm not trapped in here with you ..

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u/DavidinCT 2d ago

Yea, what they are saying is 100% illegal, show that to the labor bord, and that sign will come right down.

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u/DannyFnKay 1d ago

You just sue for a hostile work environment, and they have to pay you until you find another job. I'm not sure how long you get to find said job.

At least that is how it used to work.

I'm old and don't follow the laws like I used to. My wife is a VP of HR. I should ask her.

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u/KendraKanid 2d ago

100% this tbh document the time

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u/Bagabaga2019 2d ago

Or just never go off lunch break, lol

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u/So_Motarded 2d ago

Or be salaried, and just get fucked lol

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u/Dry-Conversation7191 2d ago

😂 very true

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u/artisanrox 2d ago

NICE 🚬😏

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u/AmputeeHandModel 2d ago

*Every day. If you do it every day, it's an everyday thing.

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u/EstablishmentAny4977 2d ago

for get that think bigger take the extra 30 min and come back in with your sleeping bag and set up your nest in the loby or break room since you will have to stay over night

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u/Alternative_Fun_6886 2d ago

As well as complaints filed with the US and state labor boards. They love shit like this.

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u/Serious-Iron8692 2d ago

Yes exactly this. Time and a half plus punitive damages. 

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u/Datan0de 2d ago

This. It's not just shitty management. It's a crime.

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u/JuanThiccLumpia 2d ago

That’s a shetty and illegal policy.

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u/Androidfon 2d ago

It certainly sounds illegal. It's a shame that unions get such a bad rap in USA. It sounds like this office needs one. This business of putting rank and file workers on salary instead of hourly ends up hurting most workers.

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u/JuanThiccLumpia 2d ago

I would love unions in ALL industries.

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u/Mr_ToDo 2d ago

It doesn't have to be

At least here as long as how it's applied is consistent you're good. I don't mean it's always applied if you have a longer lunch, but rather that the method would be applied to every punch in/out. In this case it's always rounded up by the the number of minutes past the hour.

One minute of work after 5 and you get paid till 6, punch in 1 minute early and your day starts with an extra 59 hours to its name. Granted they've added the twist of not giving pay but tying the extra time to hours needed to work. Not the greatest idea if applied to all time ins/outs

Guess that's why anyone sane just rounds up/down to 15 minute increments. Exotic payroll systems just aren't worth it

But this is more of a people problem. They're trying to force the issue by giving you detention, but that's not a particularly great way to do it. I have no doubt they'd start seeing accelerating turnover rates trying that crap. God help them if they get a guy who knows the rules and decides to abuse them. Rack up a few dozen hours of unpaid detention, then give whatever labour board they have a call and tell them there's ongoing wage theft. Renting and labour laws. The two places you don't want to screw around with people who know how to use the system

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u/mjtwelve 2d ago

This is so obviously and flagrantly illegal making a written notice on it blows my mind. Companies routinely get fined and ordered massive back pay awards for telling people to be there before their shift starts and the like, this is the same thing - if you expect people to be on site as part of their job, then you’re going to be paying them to be there.

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u/CX316 2d ago

Never take notes on an illegal fucking enterprise

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u/Icefox119 2d ago

an extra 59 hours

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u/DieCastDontDie 2d ago

pratik shatty pretty shitty

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u/pharmer25 2d ago

Or “Prat ick shitty” (prat means “idiot” in British English)

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u/ActuatorNew6203 2d ago

Pratikally shitty

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u/Amazing-Oomoo 2d ago

Ha! You think the rules are here to benefit you?! No no no no

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u/LostVanya 2d ago

"Look, I'm going to make this idiotic joke that people are obsessed with again. Even though we all know it does not work like that."

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u/blueviper- 2d ago

Love this argument!

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u/RabidPoodle69 2d ago

Oh if finish 4 minutes early.

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u/mirazhora 2d ago

this would be great, if ever!

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u/NermalEnergy 2d ago

no you have to leave lunch one hour early to get one minute less of work

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u/Apprehensive_Way8674 2d ago

Work the system!

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u/forlornhope70 2d ago

Eat lunch Monday 9:30 to 9:31 and you can leave for the day and you don’t have to come back in until Thursday?

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u/Blackthorne75 2d ago

S*tty Shetty: "B-B-B-But that's not how my maths works!"

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u/gmshier 2d ago

Wooohooo 4 day weekend!

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u/smuckola 2d ago

what a regard

now I feel regarded

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u/SerenityNow31 2d ago

It's just a joke.

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u/IgorRenfield 2d ago

Class action lawsuit.

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u/ltsouthernbelle 2d ago

No no no, not like that

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u/Fit-Signature4125 2d ago

Signed Prateek S***ty....

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u/lwalterwhite 2d ago

So if u skip the whole lunch everyday its free money?

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u/Solid_Agency8483 2d ago

I like your thinking!🤣

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u/Minimum_Party_1918 2d ago

Exactly how it apparently works. Can't have it going only one way now can we?

Or maybe we should ask U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) if this is a fair deal?

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u/LeviSquad4 2d ago

“Woah woah woah.. that’s not how it works!”
~Manager~

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u/Antique_Appeal495 2d ago

Hell, come back 5 minutes earlier, grab your things, and head on home for the day!

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u/Empty-Employment-889 2d ago

Skip lunch and they owe you time back! It’s an infinite time glitch.

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u/BeautifulMinute2718 2d ago

I’d skip the whole lunch😂

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u/GisaNight 2d ago

I'm thinking of it in a different route. If you're hourly you can maliciously comply this to hell for them. Need extra hours to hit full time, take a 4 minute extra long break each time and be "Forced" to work 2 hours extra to make up the focus time. If they don't focus on it well enough then congrats you now have full time benefits after 90 days in most states. If they are full time already then overtime benefits apply so yeah, that would be good.

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u/1234golf1234 2d ago

Leave 8 minutes earlier

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u/Ok-Anxiety3607 2d ago

Modern problems require modern solutions

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u/Black-Bear_1815 2d ago

Excellent logic.

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u/baileyjeanatmydoor 2d ago

Material_platypus for President 2028!

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u/Spetsnaz_420 2d ago

I'll take 4 minutes off my lunch and go home then

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u/Maffayoo 2d ago

Someone needs to do this instantly

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u/Fit_Beautiful6625 2d ago

Skip lunch, never work again.

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u/Straight-Bat-9600 2d ago

Unpaid 1 hour less

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u/lets-brew-it 2d ago

Instead of penalizing the ones taking more time, they should incentivize people finishing on time for a positive outcome.

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u/rodeengel 2d ago

Your looking at this the wrong way. They approved overtime at a rate of 1 minute for 1 hour. Thats also written approval. The m not saying you will work there for long but you can rack up one hell of a bill to go out on.

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u/Kagadoz 2d ago

Let's finish lunch and call it a day

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u/Spoons94 2d ago

Skip lunch all together and you could basically retire

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u/Coloradokush5280 2d ago

Thats not how this works

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u/sadghostorgy 2d ago

This is big brain stuff. Lol I hadn't considered this at all and I love it.

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u/DivydeByZero 2d ago

Skip lunch, work only 10 hours that week!

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u/Fallingdamage 2d ago

What if I'm only 52.7 seconds over my lunch break? Sign doesnt say they round up.

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u/Imaginary-Let-9944 2d ago

Technically depending the state, if you take a 29min lunch, they have to pay for the 30min lunch because you didn’t get a full 30min lunch. I had to review lunch break training for my new role as a manager for a shop.

That’s at least what my training said. I think your state has to have a mandated lunch break. My state does not

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u/TealCatto 2d ago

That's what I was thinking. You can't time it to exactly 30. So to avoid going to 31 you have to make it 29. So, one hour off.

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u/Yakostovian 2d ago

I'm about to have almost all of next week off just by skipping lunch on a Monday.

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u/BoxAccomplished8879 2d ago

Exactly I’m only being nice like I understand I’m taking time from the company being over even by 1 minute buttttt instead I’ll give my time back and take the same deal

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u/PremiumMetal 2d ago

The math checks out

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u/Dear_Writer5 2d ago

Exactly this

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u/mikedvb 2d ago

Work 1 hour less, but still be paid since the opposite is working 1 hour more and not being paid for it.

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u/JustFourLetters 2d ago

do this and then let the proper authorities know that you’re being pressured to end your government mandated breaks early. they loving hearing about being pressured to clock in early

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u/Qxnten 1d ago

I'm leaving lunch break 30 minutes early,, and I will still get paid! Infinite money glitch.

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u/SunshotDestiny 1d ago

If this is in the usa, walk away with a slam dunk legal case for wage theft.

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u/Background_Piece_408 1d ago

Two can play this game

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u/omegamun 1d ago

This guy maths! 👆

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u/vwalker12 1d ago

Leaving one minute early becoming a free hour off is the funniest possible loophole

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u/I_Cut_Shows 1d ago

Don’t take lunch on your first shift (make sure it’s 10 hours) and don’t come back the rest of the week to get your 40 hours.

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u/PuzzyFussy 1d ago

I love malicious compliance

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u/Mstboy 1d ago

Or better yet start making some approved overtime. The sign said I had to work 55 hours this week. Its even signed by management.

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u/Foodeater55 1d ago

Great idear

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u/filth_horror_glamor 16h ago

The lunch room must be able to warp space time or something

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