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Cindexxx t1_j93tmfa wrote

Reply to comment by SpasmFingers in Judge rules family of Kroger employee who took his own life can proceed with lawsuit by lovingverbosity

I work on those systems. It messes with nothing. They are liars, plain and simple. It integrates with payroll software and requires exactly 0 extra work if you're off. It's actually more work to track and punish you for it.

There's a slight exception sometimes, if you're a full time employee at exactly 40 hours a week, if you get one minute extra that one minute is calculated as overtime. In corporate structures that punish managers for overtime they could be in trouble for a single minute. Still stupid.

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Relative_Ad5909 t1_j96hs8l wrote

Not just overtime, it also means you worked full-time hours. Many of these retail stores intentionally keep people below 40 hours so that they never have to consider giving them benefits.

Back in my retail days, I worked exactly 39 hours per week, every week. If I was approaching 40, a manager would tell me to clock out and go home, regardless of whether or not I was needed.

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