Is this the strictest in office Policy in DMV?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mine has been just as strict since fall 2021.

100% in person
Set hours, no flexibility to leave early/stay late
If you’re more than 5 minutes late you get docked leave (can only take in one hour increments)
One coworker took her lunch at a different time than assigned and got docked an hour of leave
All leave requests must have doctors note
No overtime

So in the situation where the coworker was docked an hour of leave for lunch, but she still worked her 8 hours, how was that treated if there’s no overtime? She worked an hour she just didn’t get paid for? That’s not how this works under the law.

She worked during her regular 30 minutes of lunch. For the other 30 minutes she ate lunch. She was charged an hour of leave because it’s the minimum amount of time we can take leave in. The work she did during the 30 minutes of lunch is irrelevant to the boss because it wasn’t the assigned work at that time.

She should have taken an hour for lunch in that case. And no one should ever be 10 minutes late to work. If you can’t get there on time, you come in an hour late. If you have to leave 15 minutes early for a personal appointment to make it on time, make sure you leave an hour early, to reflect the personal time you’re using.

This is what I have to do at my job. We can only take leave in half day (3.75 hour) increments. If you need to leave an hour early for some reason, you have to take the full 3.75 hours.

[Anonymous]

I work for myself and have made do so maybe I'm a little naive. But reading all this I am flabbergasted that there are so many people who are willing to throw away their quality of life to support this kind of petty tyranny. I understand sucking it up for a few years to make life-changing bank. That's basically the Wall Street model. But this? These are clearly not industry leading companies. No competitive organization can hold on to talent with this kind of pettiness. Quality work necessitates flexibility and a happy workforce. Only the most mediocre companies would resort to this kind of smallness with their employees. There are lots of jobs presently. Unless it's a golden handcuffs situation, why put up with this? Unless it's to document labor violations in preparation for a lawsuit, why stay? You only live once and the one thing you will never get back is time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My CEO hates WFH with a passion.

His policy is now.

100 percent in office.
No Flex Time to hours worked.
No laptops
No email on phone.
Swipe out at lunch and back in if leave building
Runs weekly reports on time in office he reviews and will write you up

Doctors appointments or stuff need to take off.

He then to my shock decided code 99 percent of employees as hourly with a 40 hour work week. Work 7 hours 45 minutes you get docked 15 minutes pay.

I hope they pay you $500k, or I’d start looking. This sounds like elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My CEO hates WFH with a passion.

His policy is now.

100 percent in office.
No Flex Time to hours worked.
No laptops
No email on phone.
Swipe out at lunch and back in if leave building
Runs weekly reports on time in office he reviews and will write you up

Doctors appointments or stuff need to take off.

He then to my shock decided code 99 percent of employees as hourly with a 40 hour work week. Work 7 hours 45 minutes you get docked 15 minutes pay.

Hell today I was just told new 2 minute rule. Other than assigned breaks person phone calls can last only up to 120 seconds. Staff not allowed to have phone out while working. No ringers on and if a call happens staff needs to head to nearest stairwell as no talking in sight of others. Also the call must be entered into the “productivity log” and two minutes made up.

So crazy I did not get any work done on J1. Now I got to catch up tonight. At least I was able to squeeze in some DCUM. I like the camera checks vs productivity logs as every square inch on camera.

I hope they pay you $500k, or I’d start looking. This sounds like elementary school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My CEO hates WFH with a passion.

His policy is now.

100 percent in office.
No Flex Time to hours worked.
No laptops
No email on phone.
Swipe out at lunch and back in if leave building
Runs weekly reports on time in office he reviews and will write you up

Doctors appointments or stuff need to take off.

He then to my shock decided code 99 percent of employees as hourly with a 40 hour work week. Work 7 hours 45 minutes you get docked 15 minutes pay.

He doesn’t want you doing J2, J3, J4….. on his dime.

I know. they are very strict. I have to use a hot spot to do other stuff. He does not allow work computers to be used personal stuff. I got a hot spot and VPN. I don’t use their WiFi. I can only do so much on iPhone. He has whole buildings on camera plus parking lots and lobbies and had security watching.

He is paying well. First place ever I had a 12 percent match!! Plus fancy holiday party, good medical, dental with low rates. But they want you at work.

Bizarre. No one stays at a job for a "fancy holiday party." You can get good medical at many jobs.

Is your employer scraping the bottom of the barrel for employees?

[Anonymous]

I've been in the corporate world since late 90s and worked for a few rigid/old school companies and bosses and I've never seen anything like this.

What makes me call troll is that this would be a huge business risk. Do you not serve clients? What happens when someone goes home and something happens at 8 pm where you need to pull up a document and don't have a lap top? In all serious companies that do any kind of business and hope to be around in 30 days, there are security protocols in place. How do you do work outside the office? This makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Folks, this is the multiple job fiction writer.

+ 1. no company could compete like this.

[Anonymous]

Sorry me calling troll back again. So no one ever travels for the company? This makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This company is a class action waiting to happen. Lots of misclassification and overtime violations. Better hope there’s no office in CA or it will get very very expensive.

OP zero mod classification.

My on the clock staff has zero access to a laptop or mobile device he can’t work outside the office.

We have a Quadruple punch rule. He has to punch in, punch out lunch, punch in lunch then punch out again.

We badge swipe on an out and he is on camera 24/7 unless in bathroom. No OT unless pre-approved. We don’t want anyone even working one minute overtime. We also have break room and cafeteria. They can’t work during lunch.

I am off the clock but I have swipe in and swipe out. I am supposed to be at work physically 45 hours a week. 8 hour day plus lunch break. No problem me.

I like it. No more searching for staff. We even removed all cameras desk computers and external speakers. They can’t zoom in as staff. Cameras are only VP or higher. We also have time and motion and productivity reports and self audits. Also surprise audits of staff. We even removed garbage cans at desk, it up to me it be worse.

Ok, this is clearly just made up.