Digital clock manager Puns

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A friend who delivers at a pizza place told me his manager makes him clock out when business is slow, to keep labor% down. Is this legal?

Arkansas btw

Edit: thanks everyone, I have everything I need to know

In my last job when I started I would log in as soon as I got there and if I had anything to finish up I would do it before I left. I didn't mind as I'm a team player. This resulted in me doing 20- 30 mins a day unpaid but I liked the company and liked a clear desk. Fast forward 2 years and my father in law was terminally ill. We got a call from the hospital telling us we had to get there ASAP as he didn't have long left. I told my manager and left at 3.45 (core hours were 10-4) the next month my pay was docked for half a day. I had already made 2 hrs extra unpaid that week but they told me they couldn't make exceptions and the extra I did was my own decision. Allllrighty then! I came in on the dot and left in the dot. I did this for 5 years, I worked to the letter of my contracted hours. My manager was talking to a new starter and in my earshot she told him she hated 'clockwatchers' who left on the dot as this doesn't show company loyalty. I leaned over and replied loyalty works both ways and being docked half a days pay for attending the death bed of a beloved family member when I'd already done more than my weekly hours was cruel and unfeeling. So I show the company the same level of compassion they showed me. After all rules are rules and exceptions cannot be made. The new starter started on the dot and left on the dot as did the whole staff. I dread to think how many extra hours they lost over the whole department over the next few years.

I've never experienced this at other jobs. Anyone else?

First off, I am already looking for a new job and will be leaving immediately with no notice once I've gotten it. This is in Texas for those familiar with state laws.

This occurred at my job yesterday at a dine-in movie theater (movie theater with restaurant menu and kitchen). We have a general manager, regular managers, and a kitchen manager. The kitchen manager has some authority over the rest of the staff and can be the only manager scheduled at a time, but is the lowest in the hierarchy of management. KM has had a grudge against me for most of my time here, which I've mostly ignored to not let it get in the way of my work. Yesterday, I was scheduled to open with KM as the opening manager.

For whatever reason (probably to catch those who come in late), our system for clocking in requires all employees to swipe a terminal with their card, followed by a manager either swiping their own or inputting their unique code. When I came in and swiped my card, I stepped off to the side to allow KM to clock me in. I put my hair up into my hat and turned around to see KM walking away from the terminal and the terminal back to a black screen, which it does whenever someone finishes using it. At the time, I had no reason to believe he did anything but clock me in, as he has done it in the past before without issue.

At the end of my shift, the closing manager came in and printed a paper that listed every employee and their clock-in time. Surprise surprise, I'm not on it. It's quickly taken care of and my hours are put on record, but if this manager hadn't printed that paper and saw I wasn't on it I would have gone home having done my whole shift for free.

I'm scheduled with this manager for every shift I have this upcoming week (Thurs-Wed) and he will have to clock me in 2/3 of my shifts. This is not the first time he has done something to spite me but this is easily the worst and the first that crosses the line legally. He has had complaints filed against him before (by me and others) but nothing has been done to my knowledge.

Since I already got my hours on record, is there any point in reporting this? And if so, where to? I want to see if he tries to do this again, and I would assume I should film it for proof. My current plan is to mention contacting a labor lawyer to scare them/see how they react. They're already understaffed and the last 3 hires quit after their first day, so losing me is something they probably want to avoid but I have no confidence that th

So, a few years ago, I was a manager with 20 employees under me. As manger, I still worked on the floor, but when I was on the floor, I clocked in as floor shift. When I did my manager duties, like time cards, employee reviews, schedules, and such, I clocked in under manager hours and got paid $4 extra an hr when clock in under that.

Well, the company (despite making record profits per company email), had my manager, the regional manager, contact me to let me know that the company is struggling and we need to cut back on manager hours. I could no longer clock in under manager hours, but was still expected to complete all manger duties DURING my floor shifts, so when I was already busy and getting paid less. We are talking ~25 hrs of work per week that I was expected to due underpaid or for free.

I said fuck that, and didn't do a single bit of my manager duties. I didn't even attend the meetings, because i wasn't allowed to clock in for them. I had only agreed to be a manager for the extra pay, so why would I do any of that work now? For the "struggling" multimillion dollar company that doesn't care if I live or die?

I got many many warning, but they were unable to fire me as they couldn't find any one else that would take my place, because again, no one wanted the job without the pay. I spent 5 months not doing a damn thing, until they eventually started letting us clock in under manager hours again, as most locations were struggling due to managers not completing task.

So the lesson from this: don't add stress to your life or overwork yourself for a company that doesn't give a damn about you, NEVER work for free, and don't feel guilty for not going above and beyond for those shit heads.

This has created problems for me at my job from the start, and I'm wondering if I should stand my ground and risk getting fired, or give in.

I am a server at my job. I am in one of the last states to pay the bare minimum $2 and change to servers, which generally all gets eaten up by my taxes. I rarely actually see a penny of my hourly rate.

I have been at this job for about 3 months now. While all restaurants have their issues, I have refused to give on this matter. At the end of each shift before leaving, servers must do their cash checkout in our managers office. This doesn't take long, 10 minutes or less. Unfortunately, from day one my managers have tried to force us to clock out before we do our cashouts in the office. I have always said I will clock out when I am done, but I cannot clock out while I am still working. They try to argue that I am not working, and I remind them that any work related activities they need me to do are, in fact, work.

Today my manager got extremely upset with me about this at the end of my shift and said if I talked to a manager like that at any other job, I would be fired, implying she wishes me to be fired or wants to get me fired.

I was unable to record the conversation for records unfortunately, but will try to in the future. My question is, AITA and WIBTA if I continued to stand my ground on not clocking out before I am completely finished with work?

Hi guys, happy new year 😁

Anyway, the digital clock on my 2010 TSX (with navigation) is stuck an hour ahead of where it should be. I tried going into the menu to change the clock (and also tweaked with auto-time zone and auto-DST settings to no avail) but it won't save my adjustment.

Any suggestions?

He constantly works off the clock to avoid overtime, and has suggested us to, because the company "gets on his ass" about it. I think it's bs and he could probably win a lawsuit if he was punished for overtime if he just stopped caring?

We've been a skeleton crew majority of the time I've ever been here (2yr). Overtime is expected.

I could be wrong but eh. Wondering what ya'll think.

Dude is working 80+ hour weeks while only reporting 50 hours to keep labor down at the BK I work at. In all the time or driving two different locations unpaid to get shit the store it out of.

He says he's going to quit if he doesn't get a significant raise as a salaried GM when he gets a promotion... but I know that shit ain't happening.

How do I get it through his head to record his hours so he can file a wage claim when he gets fucked over in the end.

He gets punished if the store labor is over 25% hourly non exempt

So I've been going through this book on Github called "IntroToSpartanFPGA" and I'm stuck on Chapter 18 which is Digital Clock Managers.

I'm trying to make a 2nd clock based off the stock 32Mhz one. For some reason (I'd guess Jitter) the FPGA doesn't behave correctly with the new clock. The 7 seg display is completely missing from the constraints file but depending on the clock values, lines and dots will show up on the 7seg display (I'm only using the leds)

I've done trial and error for hours on various clock speeds and M / D values and nothing works.

I'm not sure how low of a number I need for the jitter to not be an issue or how to calculate / apporach the values to create a second clock.

I can post code if needed but a point in the right direction to learn more about clock speeds would be awesome.

EDIT: Turns out I'm an idiot. My constraints file was somehow completely empty so the ports were being assigned to random pins.

We obviously don't get paid for these. It's now a "requirement" because they noticed no one was clocking out for breaks for weeks on end, and the punishment going forward is "less hours and termination for repeat offenders". We don't clock out because they pay poverty wages and we cannot make bills if we do, we hardly even leave the store and lunch "breaks" consist of taking bites here and there while working in-between because running the store is a 10 person workload while there's only 5 employees, half the time of which only 2 are present for any given shift because "payroll is too high".

Doesn't this violate the FLSA? As far as I am aware you are required to pay employees for breaks under 20 minutes.

I’m a long time lurker, but I had to share this story.

I worked for a popular wing restaurant for several years in the early 2010s. It was a franchise, not a corporate owned store. I thought the owners were decent people, I never had any issues with them and they were generally very nice.

I ended up leaving and recommended a friend from another restaurant for my replacement. He ended up working there for six years before he died on the clock, in the office, his head laid on the desk like he was napping.

They didn’t close the restaurant. They kept up service while paramedics wheeled him out the back door. A space typically reserved for taking out garbage.

This happened on a Sunday night, where sales were only 2-3K. They chose to make an extra couple grand instead of doing their longtime employee right.

That’s how much we mean to these people.

Hi, I'm crew and I was just wondering: If employees forget to clock out, and are unaware that they didn't clock out (so they can't alert a manager and they think everything is normal), what happens?

Hi, I'm new here and also new to electronics and programming so go easy on me!

I'm trying to make an automated coffee maker, a bit like an old british Teasmade if anyone is familiar.

I have most of it designed, except i'm struggling to figure out how I can have it so that when the alarm goes off it also acts as a switch to close the circuit and turn on the heating element. Is there a simple way of doing this?

I don't really want a mains timer switch, i'd rather build it into the unit. Thank you!

A manager on my shift the other day said he’d clock me out for being on my phone and not doing a lot of work (it was quiet), which was probably fair and we laughed about it. He audited me a 20 minute break. I checked my clocks today and another manager has changed my start time to 4pm (I started 15 minutes early) when I ran out a hold and went into window 1 before 4, so I’ve lost out on money (about £5 overall) whilst I was actually working. I ran the hold out for a different manager and didn’t get assigned a station when I clocked in because she was joking around with the managers, but he took over running shift after her.

Should I talk to my BM about them changing my start time?

I see several screen shots of people texting with their jackass bosses and it nearly gives me Vietnam style flashbacks.

I managed a McDonald's in my town and I wasn't even an assistant manager just a shift lead. My store manager had my number in my phone and would constantly hound me about stuff and a good half of it were things I wasn't even around for. Eventually our assistants quit and I was given the work of 2 assistants (with out the pay) and even more hounding from the boss.

I started going to therapy and during one session I lost control and ended up going to a behavioral health center for 2 days out of concern of being a danger to myself or others. Even then my wife said the SM was blowing up my phone wanting to know when I'll be out.

About a month after that I said eff it and quit and took a job overnights at Walmart for a SLIGHT pay cut. I was doing multiple managers work and my pay was slightly higher than stocking shelves at night.

Long story short I think work ends at the time clock and not being able to escape it is severely detrimental to our mental health.

So I want to make a digital wall clock as a simple brain teaser and a project for the winter holidays since I'm free from school.

I plan on making my own 7 segment displays using LED strips which I'm gonna control using an LED controller after the clock IC.

This leads me to my main problem right now I don't plan on using programable chips since I don't know jack sh*t about programing nor do I have the required tools to do such a task. So my only option is using some analog technology or already existing IC's for that purpose problem is I don't know where to find such IC's. I tried looking online but I only found lm8560 which I can't get reliably and it will arrive by easter so it's a no for me. Electronics experts please bless me with your knowledge and suggest some good IC's I can use.

Look, grandpa! No hands!