Got a manager fired when I told a couple people he was chopping off 5 minutes from each shift. Apparently I’m one of the few people who ever checks time sheets.

I convinced them to start filming themselves clocking in and out. Phones are permitted as long as you don’t pull them out on the floor. Offices are a-OK. So the camera captures your number input and displays the time in/out in big pretty easily distinguishable numbers.

Called up the district manager, sent a single email with all the videos and after-payday time sheets, and within two hours the district manager was in the store (which means she was already nearby or she was hauling ass to try and do damage control)

The following five minutes can be summed up with the now-former manager being escorted out by two of the largest stock room guys on the clock and the DM escorting the manager out of the building, all the contents of his desk and computer being hastily stuffed in a box and mailed to a corporate office, the DM begging us not to sue the company, giving most of us the recorded promise of a 10% raise in addition to all backpay and a week of PTO “starting today”

Now to modern me, this all screams “you have a legitimate lawsuit that could blow up in our faces and balloon to other stores so we’re trying to cover it up and get you away from other employees and keep you from talking about it” but nobody else seemed to care and i am not the man I am today. Potentially fighting a solo lawsuit against a multi-billion dollar corporation isn’t exactly the same thing as going over your managers head to get them in trouble.

The replacement manager had no problem shittalking the previous, criminal one. Apparently his reasoning was “it’s the time it takes to put on your uniform which is unpaid because it’s unproductive” which… Yikes. Luckily corporate didn’t agree, at least at the time.

For the record, everyone came in dress code. “putting on the uniform” required putting your lanyard badge on.

15 seconds if you’re taking your time.