On tuesday night, I (30 years old) left work a minute or two early. I was scheduled to get off at 2am, but I shut down my shit at 1:57am, packed up, gave my on site supervisor a rundown, and got the hell out of there. Today, my coworker pulled me to the side and asked if I had used sick time or annual leave those two minutes. I told him no and he flipped out on me. He gave me a lecture about how if I'm scheduled to stay until 2am, I need to be in my seat and not shut down my equipment until 2am.
Even though he's technically right, this is incredibly petty. There is a saying called “choose your battles” and this guy has chosen to argue about petty things. It's exactly the kind of thing that lowers morale. I am tired of this dude making an issue about the pettiest shit. This 20 year old kid has no education, has no experience, and was hired due to nepotism. He has the same position as me and is not my boss.
My schedule rotates from mornings to nights every two weeks. I'm exhausted. I'm at a point where I am disassociating constantly and just want to die. I come into work 5-15 minutes early every day. I have a 140 minute drive one way. They only give us one remote day a week now. If I want to sneak out one or two minutes early on a horrible second shift, what is the big deal?
During my performance evaluation, the supervisors presented a list of non-issues like this that this coworker had emailed them about as though I'm a problem employee and it's killed my morale. I have mentally checked out from this job and don't care anymore.
Anyone else have jobs or have had jobs where they have huge confrontations over petty nothings?