This was a large workplace and we used an old time punch in time clock. There were about 35 employees all needing to check in on the same clock. We’d be standing around before 08:00am waiting for our turn at the clock. Sometimes the clock would punch is in at 7:58, sometimes 08:01.
This drove our supervisor crazy. The 7 people in our department were told at staff meetings that we needed to clock in at 08:00 exactly. I asked if we were shorting time. No, we were usually right on 8hours or a bit over, but we needed to stop doing that and check in exactly on time. I asked her how we were supposed to do that if even one of the employees took more than two seconds to punch in. This wasn’t her problem. Her problem was having to do the math on our timesheets. We were all supposed to check in on our starting time, which was at 08:00 exactly.
I asked the other employees if their supervisors were this picky and none of them were. I worked there for 4 years and every week at the staff meeting she would berate us for not getting our time cards exactly right. No one ever did consistently and no repercussions were ever given. Way to make your directions matter boss!