- By Poorva Karki
- Thu, 06 Jun 2024 06:40 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
In recent years, more people are realising about the common scam of ‘wage theft’, and are choosing to speak up against it. Social media, as a result, has also witnessed the same as many ‘scammed’ employees are sharing their instances with the internet. Adding another incident to the seemingly much-lengthy list, a bartender opened up about the ‘wage theft’ he allegedly discovered after realising a ‘faulty clock timing’ at his workplace. As per the now-going viral social media post, the bartender explained how the clock timings were allegedly being recorded with a gap of 10 to 15 minutes, after the employees were punching in. Whereas, the ‘punch out’ was timed much sooner than the actual clock out.
The employee also shared some screenshots of the texts that he exchanged with his boss. The boss, in the texts, was seen ‘agreeing’ to the speculations.
The post went viral on social media and left people reacting. Most pointed out about facing the same in their offices, while the rest sympathised with the bartender. People also recalled instances where they fought against ‘wage theft’.
The post was shared on social media platform Reddit, by the Redditor ‘Lemonloid’. The post was titled, “Got my boss to admit to wage theft.”
The post read, “I work for a very well-known corporation as a server/bartender. My shift usually starts at 4:00 pm. The time clock rounds my hours to 15-minute intervals. If I clock in at 4:01, I don't start getting paid until 4:15. If I clock in at 3:50 and start working immediately as expected, I don't get paid for those first 10 minutes. I know if I clock out at 10:40 it doesn't round to 10:45. It gets rounded down to 10:30. My general manager confirmed that over text. This means I lose up to 28 minutes in my wages every shift.”
“I know this is wage theft. They did not notify me that they changed the time clocks. When I was first employed, I was paid from when I clocked into when I clocked out. I wasn’t aware that it was rounding down my hours for a few months. I believe that I'm owed a couple of hundreds of dollars in unpaid wages. I'm planning to send these screenshots to the labour board but I'm not very hopeful anything will happen. TLDR: my employer is rounding down my hours so he can pay me less,” it further read. The post was shared two days ago and pulled more than 18K views from people.
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Check out the viral post:
Got my boss to admit to wage theft
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Taking to the comment section, people shared their take. “In the modern era, I'll never understand how rounding is even still a thing with time clocks. At some point in history it might have been a logistics thing, but today it serves no other purpose except to scam workers,” a user said.
“Yeah. I work for a corporate warehouse and my times are calculated to the minute. This is not new stuff. This is pretty cut-and-dry wage theft,” added a second person. “What I had to do in Australia; I spoke to the fair work ombudsman and they said to figure out exactly how much I’m owed and put in a formal written request to have it corrected. If they kick up a fuss then that’s when the ombudsman would step in on my behalf,” commented next.