Good morning Sharon,

I apologize for leaving three minutes early yesterday. In my day-to-day, I tend to focus on completing my tasks efficiently and effectively. Labor is the force that turns the gears in our company, and productivity is the grease that makes our labor fruitful. While I spent 7 hours and 57 minutes yesterday ensuring high productivity, unfortunately, I found it difficult to keep track of every minute that passed during my highly effective contributions.

To my great fortune, you prioritize monitoring clocks. That is your great value-add to this company: you observe the segments of each hour, and provide a human-generated report that cross-references the passively generated output from a clock with identified employees and include a general description of start-stop milestones. Yes, we already have software that features this exact function, and one could argue that you most likely leverage these generated reports to send your findings and summaries to employees who made the same observations during their interactions with the software. But that’s an impressive and unique quality of yours! Where others see plagiarism and redundancy, you’ve strived to prove that persistence and insistence can justify your attendance at this company.

Others may ask, “What value does that bring?” Or, “How does she still work here?” But they lack the imagination to see your amazing potential! Because you’re known for your expert timekeeping and ability to synthesize truths about value-loss based on arbitrary observations, you must also be able to identify value overages from other such arbitrary observations during your daily efforts to observe the passage of time!

While you’re obviously busy generating evidence of your value to this company, I ask for your assistance within your area of expertise:

“Find a way to cover this from one of the days that I accidentally took a short lunch or left late, you useless fuck.”

Much appreciated,
TheFartographer

Oh Sharon. If you are going to count the minutes early I leave, I’m going to count the minutes late I leave, and I promise you I will cash them in at the least opportune moment.

Hey Sharon, how about you shut the fuck up?

Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can’t see me, and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour. Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I’m working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I’d say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

I had a similar experience. I’d clock in from the mobile app while walking into the office, this way I could more efficiently make my morning rounds by starting from the entrance instead of going to the onsite terminal.

They pulled me in, showed me security footage alongside the time clock timestamp showing me clock in a full what, 15 seconds before I enter the building? Said I was stealing time and wrote me up. Put it “on the record”. And required I use the physical terminal to clock in unless make an oncall visit to the datacenter.

My daily routine changed from finishing the daily rounds efficiently in under 10 minutes to clocking in, going to the break room, getting a coffee, sitting down at my desk for half an hour catching up on work email and whatnot, then finally getting to the morning rounds, but I’d be extra thorough with the checks, so it’d take about half an hour instead of 10 minutes. Gotta be extra careful right?

For context that was the time I worked IT and morning rounds was checking each device in the building that wasn’t employee equipment, so the TVs with their signage, clock in terminals, printers, etc. I’d come in at the rear entrance and could hit each checklist item without backtracking before finishing up at my office.

Shit boss alert!

Unfortunately the economy is even shittier or I’d say just leave and go someplace where you’ll be appreciated.

This is easy don’t clock out until next day, then complain the next day why everyone clocked out far too early.

(…) we need to make sure we’re being fair to the rest of the team (…)

Let everyone go early then, fucker

“In order for me to be at my station at 9am I arrived at 8:55am and got my work items arranged accordingly. I’ll take the extra 2 minutes during lunch. “

Holy shit, i would be so fucking lazy and difficult for the next week probably 2 if someone sent me an email like this.

My pettiness knows no bounds when it comes to power hungry twats like this one.

That’s how you know she’s a good manager

You can buy my effort or you can buy my time.

Story time: I once had an employer who had me defend myself personally because he saw my Skype go online a few minutes after the official start of work. That same boss was known to sleep half of the day in his own office.

A few months later I was fired and sued their asses. I got a nice compensation out of the settlement.

Hey Sharon I noticed you clocked out a few zeptoseconds before the end of your workday. Let’s try to be a little more accurate, hey?

Funnily enough, if you actually follow “work to the job, not the clock” you get more work done, and you generally go home early.

You’re also less likely to quit, and more likely to develop and share good practice.