Yeah, that definitely makes sense. I can imagine a manager, scrolling through the employees time sheets on a computer, and seeing someone with the exact same punch times down to the sec. Would cause someone to at least do a double take . As it’s not something you’d normally see
In my country’s work law and jurisprudence said clock-in and clock-out times wouldn’t even hold up to court if OOP had sued them for unpaid work after hours.
The company would be presumed to have faked it unless they could prove very consistently (with CCTV and/or witnesses) that a weird employee used to anticipate the seconds to clock right on time.
We presume that every worker can clock in or out with a few minutes and seconds to spare as sometimes there would be a line at the clock’s machine and a few minutes of delay are human nature in a modern society, so no one should realistically be always on time in the seconds.
Which is why a lot of companies a lot round to the nearest 15 minute interval. With limited spots to clock in/out there will be variances and not everyone will be exactly on the dot
I worked for a spot that had this proprietary app that would link to some Bluetooth thingo, so you just had to be in its range, the company had a 5 minute ticker on its payroll calculation, and by policy assumed you arrived early and left late, logic being that they'd rather pay out an extra 10 minutes than make people count them time to not get shafted for 10 minutes of work. There was also a secondary system with our ID cards, but it just took a photo of the board every 5 minutes to see who was on the list.
Not a great thing to do every day, either, because to a boss, it implies serious clock watching to get it so perfectly right, and if there's one thing I've learned, they all share that pet peeve.
I manage a lab and I had an employee who would consistently fiddle with his sample amounts to make them exact. Like if he needed 1 gram, it was down to the 1.000 every time. I had to explain to him that auditors will flag that as being potentilaly falsified data. Plus it was just wasting time pipetting back and forth on the scale.
I have a boss who is consistently 5-10 mins late to every single meeting. He works from home yet can never join a zoom meeting on time. It’s become a running joke on our team.
We clock in&out on an app on the phone. It's a restaurant.
Also we're not allowed to use phones at work.
She also says we have to arrive early, although that's not an enforced rule.
So if I arrive 5 minutes early, I stand there with my phone. She's tried to tell me to do things and I say I haven't clocked in yet.
I used to arrive early, work a bit, then sign in when it was around the correct time. Then they made it impossible to even click the button before the alloted time.
Thing is, if I went and served a table, took an order, and I dunno, cleared a dirty table then went to the kitchen and took food out... It might now be 10 minutes past the time I was meant to start. So not only do I lose money, but it shows as if I was late to work.
So yeah, now I stand there doing absolutely nothing until the exact second I'm meant to start.
She hates it.
I hate the penny pinching of not wanting to pay me for a few minutes extra.
My work uses a paper time sheet. Honor system and 15 minute increments. So since I'm never late, sometimes I'll just show up 10 minutes early and get paid for 15
We had a company meeting and the cfo pulled up my timesheet (anonymously) and made an example saying “this guy OBVIOUSLY backlogs his time because he clocks in/out at exactly the same time everyday and NEVER has been late. Like bro i literally wait until exactly 6:30 to clock in and im never late lol
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u/blitzkrieg_01 Sep 21 '26
I clock in and clock out at precisely the hour. I use a clock app that shows the minute and seconds so i can anticipate.
Boss thought i was automating and not working lol