Anonymous wrote:This means work stays at work. No after hours, no weekends, and if you have to work late, you get paid time and a half.

This right here.

When the pandemic hit, the company bought iPhones for everyone and had them set up for our work calls. We already had a VOIP system but they didn't want work calls being taken on personal cell phones.

They've kept up the policy of every new employee being issued an iPhone when they're hired even though we're back to 100% in office. I leave that work phone at work on Friday evening.

I never check my emails while on metro during my commute in. If the first hour of my day is spent responding to emails and triaging what has come in overnight, so be it.

I worked for a place like this years ago AND we didn't get paid overtime because we weren't hourly employees. But had no flexibility in our schedules and had to take PTO in 15 min increments and never below 40 hours a week. Couldn't make time up in lieu of PTO.

It was the worst. This was before I had kids. Now it would be impossible for me.

I worked at a place with cameras on your computer screen so they could monitor that you weren't doing any personal work (checking gmail). You had to badge in and out at all times. People were docked pay/vacation time if they came late or took too long lunches. Nothing to do with productivity or quality of work. They lost a lot of good people.
One person worked through lunch to leave early, with supervisor approval, but when super-supervisor found out, they were told they could not do that.
Awful place. They pay very well, so they have a lot of applicants and don't seem to mind the churn.

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.

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.

i will look for a new job

Sounds like you go to daycare not work everyday op.

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

And yet some people still wonder why Gen Z and Millenials are saying hell naw to jobs that want this kind of environment. I'm Gen X and I would have started looking for new job on day 1.

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

Yep. I agree.

Sounds like a miserable place to work. Have fun OP. As long as you don't have to take care of any children, you can probably make it work.

Find another job

OP my staff who is newish he seems to have issues punching in and punching out. I have to look at his dumb time sheet every day.

He needs to work 8 hours and take a minimum of 30 minute lunch.

For instance he wanted to work 8-430 pm with a 30 minute lunch. But with traffic let’s say he gets in 830 he has to stay to 450 if he takes a 45 minute lunch he needs to stay an extra 15 minutes. He also tried to make up time.

His problem is o worked on clock when 23. We started at 9 am but my boss wanted us all in office at 830 am. We had 30 minutes to BS, read paper, go to cafeteria, go to breakfast and bathroom and punch in at 9am. We then punch out 5:30 pm. Did not have to leave but had to put all work away. Could not even answer phone.

I am off the clock but I am there every day between 8-820 and leave between 5:15 and 6;15.

He won’t last. Personally my kid gets on bus at 7 am so I am up and dressed in morning.

There are people off the clock and we work OT but people on the clock don’t. He mentioned to me after 90 days he is eligible to apply to WFH two days a week. He is there 60 days. I almost peed in pants. HR says that all new hires. He can ask but answer always no. My CEO has a 120 mile round trip commute to work and does not WFH and he has kids and a wife

I am quitting my other job next week. Sticking with this. I enjoy in person. But he even has cameras in parking lot.

I got a $70k raise to give up WFH so I will stick it out a bit.

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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.

So you don't take any work home, and you get overtime if you work 40 hours 15 minutes? That sounds amazing.

Where do you work? Are they hiring?

Overtime is forbidden. With new policy I already had to have a few meetings. The “make up time people” . They want you in office the same time each day. It is forbidden to work from home or even have email on phone.

To be honest I get so much more work done. Whole company in office every day at exact same hours. But annoying to me personally

I’m not a lawyer but how is OT forbidden? If I’m at this job (ie, classed as hourly) and I work over 40 hours, I need to be getting paid for it. And are all the people who are classified as hourly actually able to be classified as such?

If you’re notified in advance that no overtime is approved and you work overtime anyway, you did that on your own time. You’re supposed to stop working at the end of the business day. However, an employer can’t require an hourly worker to work unpaid OT.

No, company still has to pay you but you can be disciplined/fired for it.
I wonder if the company got in legal trouble for unpaid overtime so it dropping the hammer to protect itself.

I don’t think this is true.

Sounds like the kind of place where employees “live for Fridays” and “have a case of the Mondays.” Enjoy!

Folks, this is the multiple job fiction writer.