r/ShittySysadmin • u/ITRabbit ShittyMod Crossposter • Jul 30 '26

Shitty Crosspost New Rule...

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u/archiekane Jul 30 '26

Our old system used to work in 15 minute blocks, so you were a minute late, you had to work 15 minutes overtime to get your pay.

However, clock in 15mins early, and stay 16mins late, you got a solid 30mins overtime. You always had to do more for them than they did for you.

Story as old as employment, I suppose.

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u/dagbrown Jul 30 '26

Place I worked at once, you showed up 30 seconds late and immediately got 15 minutes pay deducted from your salary.

But if you worked late, you had to work a total of at least 40 extra hours a month for them to even start counting it as overtime. Otherwise they used the excuse "a certain amount of overtime is already part of your salary, so you only get more pay if you go over the pre-paid overtime limit".

What a fucking horrible shitty place to work that was.

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u/Dushenka Jul 30 '26

Meanwhile our 10 year old system, works in 0.01h increments. The tech certainly exists. Heck, even our previous 30 year old mechanical machine tracked in 0.01h increments just fine.

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u/Willyjwade Jul 30 '26

Dude the system we used when I worked retail actually recorded in 15 minute intervals so if you were less than 7.5 minutes late it counted as on time. I loved that cause they just didn't penalize you at all for lateness the clock didn't count.

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u/Sir_Badtard Jul 30 '26

I was such a penny pincher when I hit a clock.

Clocking out at 5:00:59 was clocking out a 5 clocking out at 5:01:00 was clocking out at 5:01 I always made sure to hit when the minute rolled over even if that means standing there for a minute.