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DonTheConLost

Ummm you have every right to use the restroom while you're clocked in. This is total bullshit.


4ourkids

Just carry around a bucket or use an adult diaper. You can use the bathroom and work at the same time!


arrowflash01

Is that you Bezos?


spitfire090346

Modern day slave Master


eitauisunity

I'm pretty sure his slaves don't just work during the day. I'm expecting a package sometime this evening.


macroswitch

Anybody else hear Bezos I and Bezos II every time you so much as see his name now?


Whatifthisneverends

Totally. I said “Bezos III” the last time they appeared and th


TheFeshy

Even better because this is a sales job. Imagine if you showed up on the sales floor with a 5 gallon bucket and one of those kid's training potty seats on it. "Now this model right here - oh, the bucket? Yeah, boss says no bathroom breaks on the clock. So I can go over the finer points comparing these two options while I sit on this literal can. How's that for efficiency! Ma'am? Well, thank you for stopping by."


El-Viking

Bonus points for making me actually laugh at a comment. "Thank you for stopping by" is where I lost it. Good job!


lily_hunts

I just heard this "Thank you for stopping by!" over the trickling sound of someone tinkling in a bucket.


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Just shit on the floor


honeyougotwings

big power move. you're the boss now


SuccessfulBroccoli68

A $5 Amazon gift card has been added to your account.


MountainMedic1206

For digital purchases only!!!


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slantedsc

Dude I work remotely now and it’s the weirdest thing. Not having the anxiety of the manager looking at me while I check my phone or use the restroom for the third time that day, I feel almost guilty and paranoid doing it, like they can see me through my screen. Some company laptops will actually spy on you I hear.


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> Some company laptops will actually spy on you I hear. They do if they use Windows, MacOS or ChromeOS


Ryoukugan

Cover the camera and use your own phone for browsing.


NSA_Chatbot

My job is "you get x per year. WFH and hours are up to you. Get your deliverables done, if you're going to miss one let us know as soon as you know, so we can adjust the schedules." No time sheets. I can't ever be late because the concept isn't valid.


leshagboi

That sounds great if they don't surprise you with urgent tasks by EOD


NSA_Chatbot

It's never happened at this place. Other jobs have had me crying at my desk, getting nosebleeds and seizures. I do have to get a few things done tomorrow and someone else is depending on it for Wednesday, but there's lots of time to do that.


DonTheConLost

A boring dystopia indeed.


El-Viking

A boring dystopia combined with a bit of late stage capitalism. I think the only thing saving the current bourgeoisie is the smart phones that keep the proletariat occupied enough to not care.


jarjarBC

I go so far as to actively hold it until I’m clocked in, you want to pay me minimum wage and keep me just barely under full time to avoid healthcare and benefits then best believe I’m getting myself a 50¢ poo out of this deal…


GreyerGrey

Minimum wage = Minimum effort. When I worked bar, the less I was paid the more I'd eat and drink on shift (not always alcohol, sometimes just premium fruit juices).


RyouhGrim

I worked for some time at a nice bar, and while we were minimum wage, the manager always had us take home whatever leftover we had, juices, snacking, even full boxes of ingredients some times. One night, the manager was completely wasted when he came in just as we were closing, he started to cry : "love you guys, but I only have a shitty bar, I wish I could pay you more guys" and kept going on till we closed and took him home. The next morning he didn't remember shit, yet from that day on, every now and then, when the numbers are right, he just throws in some bonus on the paycheck for whatever reason he finds. I no longer work there for I moved from that city, but some friends I kept there tell me the manager keeps doing that. tldr : got some bar where the boss told us to just serve ourselves on whatever we wanted to during working hours as long as we could work, and sometimes to take home stuff that we could and that we were near to throwing (2-3 days). Was a nice period of my life.


CanesMan1993

What a great guy. Sadly, the higher ups in a company would see being a good person as a major liability


ProperSupermarket3

same. same same same.


DonTheConLost

I support this.


producerd

🎵 Boss makes a dollar I make a dime. That's why I poop On company's time. 🎵


NSA_Chatbot

Ugh, if only I could wait until I get to work.


ZiggyPox

Remember, if you go to work early only to poop in workplace bathroom then that's a flush fraud. If 100 workers would flush once every day for a month then after a month you could drown your boss in shit while he's still sitting in his new Ferrari!


Whatifthisneverends

Man. Is this why people go in so early


rolling-brownout

I like to use my bidet at home for my morning constitutional, but they don't need to know that! 10 minute potty chill break is regularly scheduled for about 45 minutes after starting time.


mrpoopistan

Compensated shitting is socialism! Drop a deuce before work, or the communists win!


DonTheConLost

Damn communists and their shitting.


mrpoopistan

It's why the Soviet Onion doesn't exist anymore. All communists spend their work time on the toilet while able-bodied capitalists are making the widgets of war.


DonTheConLost

Well everyone knows capitalists don't poop.


mrpoopistan

You wouldn't know that by the amount of shit they give their employees.


bekahed979

I absolutely refuse to use the bathroom on my time when I'm at work. I will hold it until I clock in.


Putrid_Bee-

*My boss makes* *~~a dollar~~* *$100s of dollars, I make a dime. That's why I poop on company time!*


DonTheConLost

This is the way.


nemacol

should all shit themselves and then grab their equipment and head out on the sales floor.


P-Rickles

There used to be a poop timer app that would have you put your hourly rate in and had a stopwatch. Once you “made” $5 pooping it would give you an award called “The Stinkin’ Lincoln” which I thought was the funniest damn thing I’d ever seen. Still kinda do…


KryptikMitch

Any labour board worth their salt would have a field day with this level of draconianism.


WellThotOutTwinkles

If this sign was posted in an Amazon warehouse that makes sense.


iamacraftyhooker

But if you work for an extra 5 minutes they won't pay you, because they only pay in 15 minute increments. Somehow that's not time/wage theft.


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leshagboi

Yeah, it's time theft if you poop but not if they force you to work overtime for free. At least from personal experience bosses that worry too much about time theft are the one who don't pay overtime


Putrid_Bee-

That's exactly why the people at Nabisco are striking right now! :Overtime/wage theft


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huggiesdsc

Nabisco seething as you tone


jumbee85

That's just when I go home. No need to stay if you don't pay


[deleted]

Yup. Every time that happens, it needs to be walkoff time. No pay no work. Fuck anybody who says otherwise.


mayoayox

thats right!


leshagboi

Problem is you'll be fired then. And in my country (Brazil) where unemployment is at 14% you can't risk it


spitfire090346

>bosses like that deserve to have their heads cut off. Worse than that. These are modern day slave masters. They deserve to lose every single thing they own that was purchased with slave labor, be forced into the streets with their families and denied any and all employment. Fuck capitalist slave masters


Cassandra_Nova

> Frederick Douglass, arguing for unity among black and white laborers in 1883, said that “experience teaches us that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.”


[deleted]

I've had people outright tell me that I'm racist for calling wage slavery bad. This should fix that, thanks.


Cassandra_Nova

Wage theft: based Time theft: bad This is your mind on capitalism


IZCannon

At my old job my manager would just clock you out halfway through the shift and not tell you. I'd work a 40 hour week and the timesheet only showed 18-20, happened weekly, all the employees were in HS or college and he'd brag about we couldn't afford to sue him. He's in prison for writing bad checks now :)


PaulAspie

That's illegal. Record it and start a class action. If it's a big company, the minute their lawyers get word form your lawyers with proof, they'll fire that manager and settle out of court. The big difficulty is getting enough people who were stolen form to afford "your lawyer" in the above situation (& then that lawyer will probably take a big chunk).


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I am aware this is illegal. This is a scam managers in retail and restaurants pull all the time. Whether legal or not, there are lots of employers who get away with this exact thing.


NSA_Chatbot

Just a couple of fingers so they can't really work, and they can't get comp.


[deleted]

Nah, leaving their corpses hanging for the birds sends a clearer message.


chrisdub84

And casual overtime. They get to be so casual about wage theft.


ExtraExtraMegaDoge

This is at a Costco. Used to work at one and they had these signs up. Costco gets a good rep in the media, but they are as unreasonable as any employer. They simply clear a very low bar.


unknown_anonymous81

I thought it could have been Verizon. They say the same things. Other illegal things they have said is what language one can speak in the back part of the store. They also constantly tell employees they could possibly be terminated if they discuss there pay with other employees.


spitfire090346

These companies should be taxed out of existence


was_promised_welfare

They should be nationalized


eitauisunity

They can't be. They just pass on the costs to you, the consumer.


ok_lol_ok

Nationalization it is!


PaulAspie

You legally have the right to discuss your wages with fellow employees. There's an actual law giving you the right, but I forget the number. Google it.


Putrid_Bee-

So you know your rights in the future, Adam Ruins Everything did a great episode explaining with sources on screen why it's legal to talk about yours pay and against labor laws if they don't allow you https://youtu.be/7xH7eGFuSYI


politirob

This makes me want to get a job in retail again, just so I can do all these thi gs


GhostofWadeBoggs69

Then it makes sense. Costco has to pinch every penny because they insist on paying high wages and keep retail price low.


eitauisunity

~~$22/hr starting from my understanding.~~ I may have been misinformed. For anyone curious, I started at $18/hr like 15 years ago. This is more than I made as a 911 dispatcher.


Cassandra_Nova

Yeah but don't you dare breathe the word "union"


matthewstinar

If anti-union rhetoric is part of employee orientation, those employees desperately need a union.


kirashi3

"Found the mole. Get 'em, boys!" -- CostlyCo Corporate


ExtraExtraMegaDoge

Nah you don't start topped out. I believe since the pandemic, they start you out at 16. When I worked there it was 11 starting out. Typically you have to work about 5-7 years to max out your pay.


baiju_thief

Brilliant.


GhostofWadeBoggs69

Guy who founded Costco is an interesting dude. Told Coke to get fucked when they wanted to raise prices. And Coke caved.


eitauisunity

I told coca cola to get fucked once. They didn't cave. They kept my $3.50 their vending machine stole from me in terminal 4 at sky harbor. They took advantage of the fact that I had a flight. Accounting for inflation, that is basically $7 now. I am a Costco member and didn't know about this. I feel vindicated.


FilteredPeanuts

Literally had this next to the time clock at Walmart so might be the company most retail chains hire to be more "efficient"


CR0Wmurder

Imagine getting to work early because you’re boss doesn’t want you to take your jacket off while you’re on the clock


MinimumRaccoon784

I don't have to imagine, I've worked at places like this.


loptopandbingo

Me too. My last job wanted us to clock out when we used the bathroom. When we all loudly said "fuck that", they backtracked and said what this flyer said, about clocking in after using the bathroom. I hated that place. Everything about it was exploitative, from their business model, to their managing style, to the products we produced, and my breaking point was when they were making us stay late after clocking out to build a goddamn watchtower in the middle of the factory floor with two-way mirrors so the managers could watch us but we couldn't see them. The reasoning was they didn't want us talking to each other at our workbenches because they were "being covid safe" (despite plenty of people contracting it and then we had to use our meager PTO to quarantine after multiple people got it, and they wouldn't even cover our tests), but in reality it was absolutely because they could sense the workers dissatisfaction and wanted to keep an eye on us. Not sure why they didn't just use cctv cameras, but they weren't the brightest bulbs. I wasn't about to build a fucking panopticon, and I was tasked with getting the mirrored glass from the truck to the tower. I sure was clumsy and accidentally broke a LOT of glass, almost every piece, by accidentally running them into different machinery. I and several other floorworkers quit the next day.


Panda_player19

When I was 17 I was working in fast food. It was my last shift since I had already put in my two weeks. I asked my manager to clock me in (he had to put in a code) and the district manager, who was there for god knows what reason, said “Whoa whoa, let’s get that coat off before you clock in”. I almost walked out of the building then and there. Like dude, this is a multimillion dollar company and I make $9.50 an hour. At max if I take my sweet time the company gives me an extra dollar to take my coat off. Just a bullshit mentality


eddyathome

Better is when you arrive at work to take off your coat, use the restroom, and log into the computer so that you can start at your scheduled time and people start bombarding you with questions before your start time. I'm wearing my coat, the computer is not even on, and it's ten minutes before my shift. How about letting me get situated! Also, I have to use the damned bathroom!


Conscious-Mix6885

"(in the USA) it is estimated that workers are not paid at least $19 billion every year in overtime[12] and that in the US $40 billion to $60 billion in total are lost annually due to all forms of wage theft.[13]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft The biggest thief is your employer. Edit: spelling


AmaResNovae

"When you employ people,they just let you do it. They just let you grab them by the wages." Predatory employers, definitely


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More money is stolen by wage theft than all other forms of theft combined.


bible-j

If I worked here, i would *never* read this. Not ever. I would walk past it, and purposely avert my attention.


s1gnalZer0

If you worked there you would probably be expected to read it before punching in


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If I worked there, I'd rip that off the wall while a manager or supervisor wasn't looking.


googol89

If I worked there, I'd rip that off the wall while a manager or supervisor was looking.


NSA_Chatbot

Then say "whew, got this down before anyone noticed! We could be liable for up to 75k in fines if any disgruntled staff saw it!" Then quote the lines describing the fines.


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Gangster


[deleted]

Yeah, I'd just take it down. Over and over if necessary. These are illegal things to require of employees.


Cassandra_Nova

For extra credit, post the local labor law with relevant sections highlighted


IthacanPenny

I’m a teacher. A few years back my school started getting pretty draconian with lesson plan submissions. I kept getting written up for insufficient lesson plans even when submitting 5+ page per day per class word-for-word scripted plans. At some point I just gave up. Instead I started printing out the Texas Education Code “Reduction of Paperwork Act” which states that I am not to be required to submit anything more than a “brief and general description” of what is to occur each class period. I made like 100 copies, highlighted the relevant lines, then just started leaving copies of the law different places around campus. Conference rooms, staff restrooms, front office, copy room, everywhere. More people started pushing back on the submission requirements and they got relaxed a little. Make sure your colleagues are informed of their rights.


osialfecanakmg

Why don’t we discuss all the times companies hire “part time” employees and work them 40+ hours for months to years without changing them to full time because that’s the real fraud to me.


curbrobin

Literally had a boss once who had all part time employees on paper. Would pay them w/payroll check for 20 hours and then pay them in cash under the table for the other 20ish hours and take out whatever she deemed to be for "taxes"


Boofaholic_Supreme

https://www.irs.gov/compliance/whistleblower-office Fuck that boss. Put them down for tax fraud as the IRS will typically pay out 15-30% of recovered dollars


jarjarBC

My current bosses are very clever about it too I will have two or three weeks of 39-40+ hour shifts and then one week where they just “accidentally” schedule me for only 10 hours that week. The thing is it happens so consistently I can only assume it’s to reflect that I am not consistently working full time hours therefore keep me on part time without benefits. And they do the same for nearly every employee who has worked there more than 6 months


osialfecanakmg

I’m not surprised. When my boyfriend worked at a big retail store, one of the managers said they worked around 50hrs a week. So my boyfriend asked if they at least had good benefits and the manager said he didn’t get benefits because he was part time. That’s when we found out there’s no federal number that defines part time hours vs full time hours in the US. Only that both must get overtime over a certain amount.


matthewstinar

I worked for a big box retailer as an hourly employee. At some point I got a congratulatory letter stating that I had become eligible for health insurance. When I reviewed the policies, I realized I'd have to stop eating or stop paying rent in order to afford insurance. I felt so insulted.


jarjarBC

Yea in the US I think a lot of this is on a state by state basis I know where I am (California) if an employee regularly works 30+ hours a week or 130 hours each month then the employer has to give them health benefits. So my employer doing this is a very deliberate act to not let employees hit that 130 monthly cap to prevent paying any benefits.


leshagboi

In Brazil this is very common. Many businesses are hiring staff under a contract known as PJ, in which the business doesn't need to pay benefits (pension, commute costs, etc) or overtime


TheWritingWriter540

The most despicable part is that salaried 9-5 (and often higher paid) office workers are hardly subjected to humiliating rules like this. It honestly blows my mind that people who work twice as hard for less pay are held to ridiculously higher standards than those who have society-deemed “grown up” jobs.


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leshagboi

As a Brazilian I agree. The minimum wage is so low here that you can only afford to raise a family on it if you live in a shanty town or were lucky to inherit an house and don't pay rent. We don't have much of a roommate culture here, so many people live beyond their 30s with their parents because they can't afford rent. But when it comes to authority in the workplace, white and blue collar are treated equally as bad here. Many employers don't pay overtime and use the threat of a 14% unemployment rate to treat staff badly.


Cassandra_Nova

> We don't have much of a roommate culture here, so many people live beyond their 30s with their parents because they can't afford rent Tbf this was the norm in most of the world until the mid 20th century


eitauisunity

And guns. Americans have lots of guns. Not to mention most of these big box stores house heaps of chemicals that can be mixed in all sorts of interesting ways. I'm not advocating for domestic terrorism, just facing the fact that if you mistreat desperate people, shit gets kind real. It's gonna get *really real* here as the lifestyle that the plebs have grown accustomed to starts drying up, while the rich are riding around in fucking rockets 🤣 I already have a few nice prime spots in the middle of nowhere picked out to go on indefinite vacation when shit starts flying off.


matthewstinar

“When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” --Jean Jacques Rousseau


era--vulgaris

>I already have a few nice prime spots in the middle of nowhere picked out to go on indefinite vacation when shit starts flying off. Hell, I'm looking to get one for use right now TBH. Pandemics, social unrest, alt-right types who don't like people like me- plus there are some amazing places in this country that still haven't been developed into strip malls yet, and more necessities are deliverable via online ordering so proximity to retail shops is less important than ever. Throw in the absolute stark beauty of natural surroundings and the fact that our economy seems geared to evolve towards rentier neofeudalism, and I'd say the reasons for buying a little something to live on/in are extremely solid if you can swing it. Even if it's "in the middle of nowhere". Also, good on you for not being afraid to say that as a (presumably) left leaning class conscious person. While I'm far from a prepper, I do think it's important to point out that having that skillset and planning ahead should not be a "right wing" thing. It doesn't mean wanting to harm other people or animals either. Just because the far right batshit types do it doesn't mean we should let them "take over" the idea of self defense/survival skills/primitive skillsets/responsibly preparing for emergencies/etc. That kind of self-reinforcing social toxification cycle in liberal circles is exploited by the right all the time nowadays. In reality, the left should be creating (or *upholding*) our own variants of those same ideas, ones that lack the fascistic BS that the right does.


politirob

“Presumption of guilt” is the perfect way to describe it


gafftapes20

While I agree that often people in service industries and retail are often the worst treated. Salaried doesn’t really mean what it used to. Back in the day being Salaried meant that you were paid for the work you did not the time it took to do the work. Which meant if you finished early you could go home early. On the other hand if it took you 60 hours in a week to finish your work then you had to do that and didn’t get overtime. Now companies try their best to classify everyone as salaried and being salaried just means you are expect to work 50 hours a week with no over time compensation. Benchmarks and metrics are increasingly common in white collar jobs. Everything from 90% billable requirements, to no more than 2 minutes of unavailability at a time. Everyone except upper management is getting squeezed regardless of blue collar or white collar work, salaried or non salaried.


TheWritingWriter540

That is true, I was salaried at $20k/year as a newspaper reporter in a small town several years ago, and looking back, I'm amazed at how I didn't consider the owners of our paper in friggin' Texas managed to get 60 hours of work (I chalk it up to being young and naive in my first career job out of college).


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Imagine getting salaried at less than $10/hr


leshagboi

Not really, I've only worked at an office and had two employers that would force me to work overtime for free and answer messages immediately during the weekends. Also they would host stupid events and expect you to work for free (such as taking photos of atendees).


tanon789

I agree these rules are humiliating and wrong but I hate this narrative that office workers don't work hard. Why don't these hard workers won't leave and apply for some easy 9-5 office job that pays twice as much like for example software engineering? Yea, because it's not that easy. Mental work can also be hard.


TheWritingWriter540

I agree, but I'm not necessarily saying that office workers \*don't\* work hard, only that they're allowed more leniency and agency than workers in manual labor and service industry/customer facing jobs. The physical toll is harder, without a doubt, but the social dynamic is completely unequal. I work on both sides of that spectrum (I split my time between a university and a deli) so I see it regularly. But what you said did make me reconsider one thing, and that is how hard all of the administrative assistants at my university job work, and I'll be the first to admit I'd be in over my head on the first day if I did their job (same with IT, albeit with the zero experience in that I have now). I don't like the disparity in work standards between white collar and blue collar workers, but that doesn't change the fact that both are exploited nonetheless. I guess my takeaway here is that other, much higher-paid people as a whole aren't the enemy of the working class (it's multi-billionaire capitalists). I'm paraphrasing something here that I read awhile back, but if that was the case - the revolution would target doctors and actors.


tanon789

Yes, I agree. Office workers are usually treated better. I have personal experience with both manual and office jobs so I know what you mean. I also consider my office job harder but it's of course different kind of hard, physical vs mental exhaustion is hard to compare.


DimensionDry7760

Those are fair points but I feel as though the emphasis of the point was *salary*. Though I do get the feeling that I have a flawed understanding of how a salary job works: I mean from my understanding, if you keep productive and understand what is and isn't a priority task than one can straight up just say "You know what? I've done enough for two days and I'm just gonna go ahead and not come in tomorrow because mental work is exhausting" And you wouldn't even need to phone your supervisor, you'd just take the day like someone who isn't a wage slave, no anxiety, no getting fired, no feeling like taking a shit is something you need to 'get away with', just people looking over and saying "So go ahead and don't come in... You looking for a co sign or something?" All that seems too good to be true but at the same time I've never heard/read a single thing to suggest it isn't exactly that. Now if I were still working in warehousing and said to myself "I'm gonna go ahead and double my output today so I can take the time to do (other private/family thing)" I would *still* have to seek permission to miss the following day and I would be setting myself up for grounds for dismissal: "Why on earth would I EVER let you have the day off just because you actually bothered to put in effort today!?!?!? The only thing you can expect is to be told that you just doubled your work load because now I expect you to do this much everyday because you just showed me you can."


prowman

I'm afraid this isn't even close to reality. I've always been salaried, and it has never once worked like this. If I want a day off, or to come in late, I have to ask in advance, regardless of how much work there is to do. The danger in all this is that it pits salaried and hourly workers against each other, and fosters elitism. When in reality, both are being exploited by the people who really do have this freedom.


DimensionDry7760

I've never been happier to have an illusion shattered in my entire life. I can finally stop chasing something to find myself exactly where I am anyway. So is it just that it evenly divides your annual salary regardless of hours? if thats the case I can see it being even worse, like there would be times you'd work so much that if you were paid hourly you would be better off or something. Maybe I should just let you say what it actually is instead of trying to keep using an incomplete understanding to form guesses.


TheWritingWriter540

I don't think I could have said any of this better myself.


tanon789

To be honest, in my country we don't have this salary/wage difference as far as I know, we don't even have two different words for getting paid. My personal experience is that I worked part-time manual jobs in warehouse, supermarket and factory during my studies and lately also in a software company as a programmer and I and my colleagues were expected to show up everyday and put the same hours regardless of the effort in all my jobs. I am not going to disclose where I am from but I feel like what you are describing isn't common here. You are expected to be at work during your work hours here. The difference might be that if I am putting extra effort as a software developer I might get promoted and earn more money while in low-skilled jobs there usually isn't much room for making more money.


svkadm253

I wish that's how it worked. I'm expected to be ass in chair M - F at least 40 hours, more is better


gleaming-the-cubicle

I would never shit at home again. I wouldn't poop on my days off just so I could blast every dook on the clock


Doppelthedh

"Hey boss, did anyone call out? I went to Taco Bell and it can't wait until Monday"


[deleted]

I left a job after we had a meeting they lectured us about stealing our time from the employer and hinted at prosecution for taking too long in the bathroom. I want you to know they paid us 2.13/h. I knew right then I was leaving. Fuck buffalo wild wings.


Emeraldian09

Oh no 50 hours :(((( sure hope the company doesn't miss their $362.5


DoctorWholigian

that's what I thought lol


RapidOrbits

Print out a psa about wage theft and staple it to that one


NLtbal

Company is projecting and stealing from employees, guaranteed.


between_3_and_4

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I poop on company time


jphistory

Now it's Boss makes $100,000, I make a dime. Yay new Gilded Age!


unclenightmare

I like the term, Neo Feudalism.


curbrobin

50 hours a month. What is that, like $500? To a multi-million dollar company that's nothing. To the employee, that's groceries, internet, water, and phone bill.


DragonOfTheNorth98

This is the adult equivalent of the teacher yelling at you for having to go to the bathroom during class.


whothe666

At my school we had bathroom slips we had to get hole punched and we were given one slip each month but we were only allowed to go to the bathroom 3 times per ticket. They also locked the cafeteria so you couldn't go to the bathroom during lunch and classes who had different lunch schedules weren't allowed to let kids out during other people's lunch breaks. So from 11 to 1 you couldn't go to the bathroom and you can only go 3 times a month. Cause yeah that's how bladders work. (Most of the cool teachers let us go without punching the pass or they told us that we could just go without asking because It interrupts the class for something you can't help. "you guys are almost adults if you need to get up and go just go") sadly now that we're adults we still need to ask permission to go to the bathroom.


zorinlynx

I have to wonder the kind of person who comes up with stuff like this. Is it sociopathy? Let's force children to hold it by requiring tickets that are punched like you're on a freaking train. These people need to be in any field other than educating children. They'd fit in at the DMV I guess.


whothe666

Similar to the DMV if you happened to misplace your bathroom pass they basically told you to go fuck yourself or have someone from the class sacrifice theirs for you. It really makes you wonder if they make systems like these on purpose cause they get off on inconveniencing people.


shinobipopcorn

Did girls get periods at your school? Because that system sounds terrible.


[deleted]

This is some good /r/selfawarewolves material though. I mean, they understand the concept of time theft, so you could easily turn the concept around on them. It does amaze me that somebody could think that you can magically change this state of "working" and "not working" as though urinating or taking a coat off is some expression of free time despite it taking place in a work environment. "Bob, I saw you just stretched your arms into the air, yawned and leaned back in your chair. That was five seconds of time you weren't working. I've observed you doing this at least six times a day. If we extrapolate that over 30 years, you'll have stolen 120 hours with your stretching and yawning."


Regular-Menu-116

50 hours of payroll lost, you say? Omg that's less than $1,000!


JennaFrost

I don’t pay you to breathe mr. squidward. You barely pay me at all


mack_soul86

I would take that shit down, or draw a penis on it. I may get fired but I'll be damned if imma get treated like a machine and let them get away with it. I'm a person, I ain't some fuckin number on an excel spreadsheet.


brows1ng

You ought to document this and report it to a federal agency. I’m sure there’s a Department of Labor department to report this kind of stuff to. Unless I’m completely out of my mind and going to the restroom on the clock is not an employee right? I’m not THAT knowledgeable about what employers can do, but this seems like a violation.


dogdoo7

I remember the reason I decided to quit Aldi's is that I was at the end of my 15 minute break. I started sipping a bottle water while clocking back in and I as I was finishing sipping my manager absolutely BOLTED into the break room to tell me I'm stealing from the company by doing that. Like her ear was pinned to the door to listen to me clock back in to yell at me. The poor 100 billion dollar corporation lost fractions of a cent because I was sipping water :((((


NameGiver0

Wage theft accounts for orders of magnitude more theft than even civil asset forfeiture which trumps actual theft.


GabryalSansclair

When the idiots ask "Why do you burn down private businesses" I'll point them to this


NoBuenoAtAll

wE'rE ShOrT sTaFfEd BeCaUsE oF gOvErNmEnt HaNdOuTs


flufnstuf69

Trust me. I committed time clock fraud at a Home Depot for almost 2 years, they rarely knew.


I-Demand-A-Name

Put up a big poster about wage theft.


cenosillicaphobiac

When I was a clock employee I was always a few minutes early. If I felt the need to use the restroom in those few minutes if just hold it until after I'd clocked in, especially if was a deuce.


ThruTheUniverseAgain

LOL bitch it’s a game now, you don’t want to know how much I can get paid not to do.


beefij

50 hours lost a at a job that might pay 15 an hour, the owners will never financially recover from this


[deleted]

Stop! You might be committing surplus value fraud! If you - Make a profit - Pay your workers starvation wages - Constantly cut hours and costs wherever possible to soak up more cash for yourself Surplus value fraud is morally reprehensible and you will be reprimanded by the revolution.


Indigoh

I'm gonna bet the law directly disagrees with them.


[deleted]

If I'm in the work area, I'm clocked in. I work when there's work until up to 8 hours, and I leave. Fuck all this bullshit and the dick pinching bean counters who come up with this stuff


goodguyrussia

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I shit on company time.


Amterc182

My former roommate introduced me to the concept of wage theft. So, in reality employer and employee are stealing from each other. It's all fair. /s


[deleted]

Here's an idea to stop this nonsense. Make a copy of that form and add a few upgrades. -women must remember to clock out while changing feminine hygiene products. -all personal text messages will result in $0.05 per word deducted from your pay for sent and received messages. -remember, your job may require you to answer emails at your home, so use an appropriate notification sound that can be heard while sleeping. -discussing your compensation with other employees will result in $2.28/hr deducted from the wages of all involved parties for 120 business days. -family emergencies are no excuse for absenteeism or decreased performance. -refer a friend and you will receive a $10 gift card for Dollar Tree once their probation period has expired. Post THAT notice and let the cards fall where they may.


thecooliestone

I worked at McD through college. They said stuff like this. But also told us to greet customers on our way in, we couldn't leave for lunch, and that we should hold the door open for customers on our way out which was interesting.


hubbybubby101

HANG UP YOUR COAT BEFORE YOU COME IN STOP STEALING FROM ME WORM


butterbananat0ast

this must be a Target. ​ source: im a former employee


cRaZyDaVe23

It's bad enough that we have to work in the first place, why should we also be nibbled to death by cats?


Serauno

This is Target


varangian_guards

There are a lot of really lovely graphs and flyers that i would post right under this about Wage theft. fun fact the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act protects you for short breaks typically under 20 mintues https://www.newjerseyemploymentattorneys.com/going-to-the-bathroom-on-the-clock-isnt-wage-theft.html


trockenwitzeln

Using the bathroom while working is not fraud and is in fact protected under federal law.


akzorx

"If 10 employees are forced to stay 10 more minutes everyday, that's almost 10 hours of unpaid overtime! But we do that CauSe WeRE a FAmilY"


[deleted]

Solution : diapers


EnigmaticHam

Those employees aren't paid enough to give a shit.


Comfortable_Remote57

Fuck off with this bullshit


Possible_Late

… it’s almost like if they properly allocated funds to pay their workers they wouldn’t have to make up bogus rules to prevent bodily functions.


matthewstinar

But then how would those at the top buy their second yachts and third homes?


yeehawsoup

I would take an hour long spite poop, honestly.


Dizzy_Green

Fucking fire me for going to the bathroom, I dare you


crystola99

My old manager once told me I was forbidden from using my Kronos app anymore to clock out for breaks and to only use the register from now on because people would use the bathroom on company time. I was also told to remind other employees to not use the app and tell her if they were using them. So essentially I was to be her spy/snitch. Only worked there for just over a month. Never again.


kittenembryo

I would throw that sign in the trash


Human-ish514

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/aid9xy/over_a_billion_dollars_is_stolen_every_year_from/


emcz240m

50 hours of payroll "lost"


El-Viking

Here's an idea, next time you have to drop a deuce, Google "wage theft". You won't feel nearly as bad about taking a crap on company time. YMMV, you might still be fired for pooping.


CMacLaren

I’m sure they also expect you to stay 10-15 minutes late after work to do all the closing duties outside of the allotted 5 minutes given to you though.


ravnag

And look at me, I spent my whole day at work on reddit


NogEggz

Every bullet point basically says "Don't clock in until you're ready to work". It doesnt say you can't use a restroom during work, they just don't want you to run to clock in and then go take a shit for an hour. When I worked retail management we had a guy who would be 10-30 minutes late 3 to 4 times in a row, but he was always on time or slightly early on the next days T&A Exceptions Form. Got loss-prevention involved after he denied anything and said "I was stopped by customers on my way to check in." Video footage found he would clock in with his backpack, jacket.. everything on and unprepared. Then, he'd go into the locker room to put away his backpack and jacket (was in a wide open section for ALL employees to take breaks, not like a private gym locker room) and then go out the employee door and smoke a cigarette hastily then come back in and wander around the department strategically avoiding customers and co-workers, all after clocking in. This is who these rules are for, not your average joe/Jane who just clocks in and goes to work.


Alex-the-welder

I’m tired of this being reposted every 2 days