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yeah it really sucks to have to make these calls. for me mine felt like it was for the good of the team, but i couldn't fully do it

so i left management and haven't gone back despite pressure (also the money is shit)

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).

It's a shame that this is basically what all work from home employees do, but he got fired because he had to be in office

i got fired once for doing a phone job interview in my car without clocking out lol

Like you said, you just had to sit there while your boss fired the guy. Gotta be more clever when doing shit that's explicitly fireable because expecting your immediate supervisor to lay down their job to protect yours is naive and selfish.

RIP to a real one, still cool as shit to appropriate company time for your own purposes

I did that for about a year because I had no one over me and where I worked was just big enough that no one would bother to keep track, would clock out and then back in for lunch then go home for a few hours.