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Our next Reddit post is from the Jan. At our company, the workday ends at 4pm.

I've worked here for four years, and ever since my first day, it was normal for people to

clock out at 4pm. Guys on the production floor usually shut down their machines at 3.30pm.

Clean the station and go to showers and change in a normal close to be ready to clock out at 4.

Recently, we got a new factory manager from headquarters. Man, how he flipped out,

when he found out that people stopped working 30 minutes early to clean their station and

change clothes. He called a big meeting and told us middle management guys to tell people that 4pm

is not the time to leave, but the time to stop working. He was thinking that he was being smart,

but he overlooked the rule that employees clock out only when they leave the building.

This was a company rule that we had for safety reasons. Basically, that means that the only

unpaid thing at our work is smoking, because smoking is only allowed outside of the compound.

So, for the past three weeks, people were turning off their machines at 4pm,

and then taking their sweet time to clean the workplace and hit the showers,

usually making 40 to 60 minutes of overtime per day. Today, the new manager found out that over

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