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In one of the first places I've worked, you were supposed to clock in and out of lunch but they didn't have a good way of controlling how long your lunch was, so I would purposefully clock my lunch to be 45min even though my lunch is supposed to be an hour. It worked because the clocking software basically took the times of the beginning and end of your shift and subtracted that by how long your lunch time duration was. You technically could have a 0min lunch by clocking in lunch and immediately clocking out lunch and the software would think you worked 1hour overtime, but that was way too obvious.

So 45min lunch it was. I did something like clocking in lunch at 12:07pm and clocking out lunch at 12:52pm. Of course, I wasn't actually taking 45min lunches. People didn't all go to lunch at the same time, so I would begin eating food at my desk at 11:30am in order to signal to people I'm at lunch, clock in lunch at 12:07pm for my official lunch that I was supposed to clock in at 12pm, and clock out lunch at 12:52pm that I was supposed to clock out at 1pm. Since my clock-in lunch was 45min, the extra 15min is overtime pay (well, on paper anyways except I also liked showing up 10min late, meaning most of the 15min gets used up to make up for showing up late lol).