Time To Get To Clocking In Machine - Being Totally Picky Here But ...

[Iggle Piggle]

At work it takes 3 minutes to walk from the front gate to where the clocking in machine is. I'm being pedantic but this adds up, shall I quantify the cost to me and bring it up in good humor with the boss? :-)

[Prudie]

You can try! Have exactly the same system at my work, staff take at least 5 or 10 minutes after they've clocked to be at their desk/workplace. You are not working until you get there so a boss could validly argue that and take it off you!

[THECORBYLOON]

I'm sure you if you were telt to run rather than walk you'd take it in good humour...

[RATTER15]

I think you should get paid from the time you are productively working, not when you arrive on the premises.

Where I worked, I had to be ready and changed into uniform for handover 10 minutes before I was due to start work so I could receive handover and ready to begin my duties on the hour. I didn't really agree with it because receiving handover was actually working, but it wasn't a problem.

[2sp_]

I think if you start playing that game with your boss you will soon find you have timed toilet breaks and other such nonsense.

[Iggle Piggle]

2sp, we have ...

[EDDIE51]

Where I used to work the' clocking' was in a hut by the car park, people used to clock in on their way to park. On the way out they would get the car first and jump out of the car to clock on the way out. They stopped that by moving the time clocks to the work area. The company gained around 1/2 an hour per person per day.

[2sp_]

Oh, jings!

[Iggle Piggle]

I say toilet breaks are timed, they aren't timed per se but a time is allocated for the visit, so if you have a tummy upset for instance your performance drops and you are questioned !

[douglas9401]

They monitor the performance of your bowel?

[2sp_]

I used to work in a store where one of the men would disappear for hours on end delivering a parcel to a different part of the building or going to the loo.

I was convinced he had a second job somewhere.

[factor-fiction]

Maybe it's worth asking at interviews how far the clocking in machine is from the workstation

[silliemillie]

Where I used to work the clocking machine was on the 14th floor where we worked so you can imagine how long it took us to get up there by the time we waited for the lift which would then usually stop on most floors.

But by the same token as many have stated your time doesn't start until you actually start work, so many of my co workers spent 5 mins getting to the floor in the lift, clocked in and then spent another 5 mins making tea/coffee so it works both ways.