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Jeffersonville, OH | We went to a time clock a few years ago after just having the employees give us their hours for years. Too many weren't keeping good track, so they just didn't turn them in, and we had to chase them down and figure it out with them. Made the ladies jobs a nightmare.
We use either a card, or fingerprint, whichever the employee is OK with, they clock in when they walk through the door, out for lunch, and out when they leave. We don't worry about breaks, we just ask they don't abuse us, and for the most part, we never have an employee that does. If the guys are out on the road and don't come back to the store to clock out, they just tell the ladies the next morning to "clock me out at X, I went straight home from the job"
We try to be easy to work with as long as we don't feel we're being abused, and I can only think of a few times in my 25 years that we were, and those people were weeded out pretty quickly...I mean, pretty hard to pull one over on the boss when Brother and I are here most of the time.
Had a guy once that stopped clocking out for lunch, and lived a mile away in the town of 700. The ladies told me, "hey, he's not been taking a lunch, is that right?" So silly me, I walk out and see if his truck is in the parking lot...nope. Then I call the customer who owns the grocery store up town where the guys go for lunch, "Hey, is so and so there for lunch...Yeah, he sure is, you need him...Nope, just checking, appreciate it" That one didn't last long after that. If you're going to steal from people, at least try to be smart about it!!!
I actually think that was the only guy who ever did that crap to us...maybe the only one I ever knew, but if anyone else did it, they were good enough I never caught on LOL. Most of the people I tend to hire are more the kind of people to say "Hey, I need to borrow $50 I'd rather ask you for it," and I can always work with those kinds of folks.
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Changes in time cards over the years.
