No one cares about meal compliance

[Black Sheep 214]

My store didn’t care if you punched in 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after your scheduled start time, that was our “grace period”, but if you punched in early you had to punch out early to avoid going over your scheduled hours and/or getting overtime. If you punched in late leadership could require you to punch out at your scheduled end time, but to my knowledge that was a very rare occurrence, and only happened when the store was severely over hours. Five minutes here and there add up when district is on the phone telling leadership to cut hours…

 

[FlowTeamChick]

I'm all for "hustle", but are you signing out a Zebra while off the clock?

I do pick up a zebra and an extra battery on my way upstairs to the break room. My zebra's battery never lasts the whole shift and it's usually running low by the time I take lunch. Leaving the extra battery in my locker and then dropping off the depleted one on my way back from lunch works well. Too many times, I've walked all the way back to my work area, forgetting to swap out batteries.

 

[Nauzhror]

My store didn’t care if you punched in 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after your scheduled start time, that was our “grace period”, but if you punched in early you had to punch out early to avoid going over your scheduled hours and/or getting overtime. If you punched in late leadership could require you to punch out at your scheduled end time, but to my knowledge that was a very rare occurrence, and only happened when the store was severely over hours. Five minutes here and there add up when district is on the phone telling leadership to cut hours…

I've worked at 2 stores, neither has cared if I worked more hours than scheduled for the most part, so long as it wasn't OT. Overtime though has typically mattered. I had one SD that would tell me to just take the OT, and to not worry about it. But all the others were pretty insistent on taking longer lunches or leaving early to cut OT outside of 4th quarter or other special exceptions.

 

[countingsheep]

Got this in the mail today (no idea when it was sent i only check like once a month all my stuff is digital now) dont work for spot anymore but I can definitely say that they bullied us into "agreeing" to jot take breaks when we were busy and shoet staffed. In wa there is a provision at the end of the labor law saying you are allowed to waive breaks if BOTH employer and employee agree to. Which makes for a VERY gray area on breaks imo.