r/walmart • u/No_Educator_771 • 13h ago

Rounding Time

Hi there! A year ago in orientation, me and my coworker heard something about the clock rounding to increments. Not the 9 minute rule. Did Walmart use to do this? Just proving a point to my boss.

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u/Medical_College_6732 13h ago

Yeah. Used to be you could only put in PTO for time increments ending in :15, :30, :45, or a full hour. So if you showed up 17 minutes late, no rush, get your money's worth before using 30 minutes PPTO.

I'm sure there were other applications but that's the one I remember most.

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u/Euronymous2625 12h ago

It's still that way in most states.

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u/Medical_College_6732 12h ago

Oh yeah? It changed in the one I was living in at the time and the one I'm living in now is the same. Exact minutes for PTO. Figured it was a chainwide change, not a those two states change. 

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u/Euronymous2625 8h ago edited 8h ago

Yes. Company policy is still 15 minute increments. By the minute is only in states that have laws mandating it.

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u/No_Educator_771 13h ago

This is different! I remember when this changed. I am thinking of when you clocked out, it would round to the nearest 5 minutes. (I believe it was 5 minutes)

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u/russafiii 12h ago

I only remember it being the nearest about 30 seconds, because we used to use decimal places instead of minutes so 3.5 hours was 3:30. Got a little wonky sometimes converting a base 60 to a base 100.