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Employee Claims Boss Is Changing Clock-In Times By 15 Minutes A Day To Get Them To Work For Free

Employee Claims Boss Is Changing Clock-In Times By 15 Minutes A Day To Get Them To Work For Free

A worker discovered that his boss had been changing his clock-in times in order to avoid paying him and took matters into his own hands

Tom Sanders

Tom Sanders

A frustrated worker has taken to Reddit to call out their unscrupulous employer after discovering their boss has been deliberately messing with their clock-in times, leading to them missing out on wages.

In a post on the popular /r/antiwork subreddit, the worker claims their boss has been pushing forward their clock-in time by ten to fifteen minutes every day, resulting in up to an hour of unpaid work every week.

The redditor claimed that when they first trained for the job, they were instructed to clock in 10-15 minutes early each day in order to allow time for their software to boot up.

However, despite clocking in at 6.45am each morning to set up their computer programs, they gradually started to notice that his boss would habitually push their clock-in time to 7 every day.

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In response, they said they then began clocking in at 7, because they didn't want to work for free. But their boss then started to change their clock-in time to 7.10am in retaliation.

They said: "How should I address this? I'm losing over an hour of work every week for months now. That's cash down the drain."

Fellow Redditors were quick to support the frustrated employee.

"Make sure you have the receipts. This is wage theft," the top reply boldly asserted.

"He's chiselling 1.25 hours per week from you," another said, "Ask your colleagues if any of them have noticed the same thing... He might be doing it universally to hit some kind of budget number.

"If so it's systemic fraud and needs to be stopped."

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Others encouraged the OP to start establishing a paper trail, documenting everything and letting them 'dig their own grave' before reporting them to the Department of Labour.

Thankfully the Redditor appears to have taken the advice on board, posting in an update: "Reached out to a labour law firm to see what my options are and provided 4 pay periods worth of clock-ins that had been adjusted. Thanks for the support gang."

Whether or not the boss faced any long-term repercussions remains to be seen, but the whole episode is a stark reminder that workers have much more power than their employers would care to admit.

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Topics: Work