You are only allowed to leave the building or arrive at work through one door. The time clock is at that door. There are cameras on every door. HR won’t look at cameras to verify time. So, if you arrive, or leave, and you don’t clock out, you have to go sit in the plant manager’s office, and he has to review the footage, and he complains the ENTIRE TIME, and then bitches and moans, and then checks on you five times to make sure you are clocked in and out, every day, because he hates the cameras, and it’s annoying as hell.
If you leave early, or come in late, you have to text a number, that goes to a thing that prints out a sheet, and then you have to make your manager sign it the next day, and if it’s not turned in, you guessed it, you go sit with the plant manager, and he complains the whole time and it’s so annoying that you’d rather punch in correctly rather than hear him complain, and complain, and say “these awful terrible clunky cameras” and “where did you come in” and “these GD terrible cameras” and why didn’t you clock in, so I don’t have to deal with these cameras? He really hates those cameras, and you honestly feel sorry for him enough that you punch in and out on purpose, just to not have him try to figure out the cameras.
After a few times of that, everybody clocks in and out, and if they don’t, they text the number, and get it signed, and then hand it to HR right away.
It was a sucky process to begin, but it has resolved our issues.
The only thing that was bad though, was one guy was always getting there late, and then the plant manager figured out that he was late, but then a co-worker was clocking him in on time with a PIN number, and, then another co-worker would sometimes clock the two of them in when they were both late, and the plant manager wised up to it, and fired all three of them in one go. That also sucked.
You are only allowed to leave the building or arrive at work through one door. The time clock is at that door. There are cameras on every door. HR won’t look at cameras to verify time. So, if you arrive, or leave, and you don’t clock out, you have to go sit in the plant manager’s office, and he has to review the footage, and he complains the ENTIRE TIME, and then bitches and moans, and then checks on you five times to make sure you are clocked in and out, every day, because he hates the cameras, and it’s annoying as hell.
If you leave early, or come in late, you have to text a number, that goes to a thing that prints out a sheet, and then you have to make your manager sign it the next day, and if it’s not turned in, you guessed it, you go sit with the plant manager, and he complains the whole time and it’s so annoying that you’d rather punch in correctly rather than hear him complain, and complain, and say “these awful terrible clunky cameras” and “where did you come in” and “these GD terrible cameras” and why didn’t you clock in, so I don’t have to deal with these cameras? He really hates those cameras, and you honestly feel sorry for him enough that you punch in and out on purpose, just to not have him try to figure out the cameras.
After a few times of that, everybody clocks in and out, and if they don’t, they text the number, and get it signed, and then hand it to HR right away.
It was a sucky process to begin, but it has resolved our issues.
The only thing that was bad though, was one guy was always getting there late, and then the plant manager figured out that he was late, but then a co-worker was clocking him in on time with a PIN number, and, then another co-worker would sometimes clock the two of them in when they were both late, and the plant manager wised up to it, and fired all three of them in one go. That also sucked.