251
Have you ever created your own job perks?
(lemmy.nz)
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
I used to work at a place on an hourly wage. There were two PCs you would clock in on. Most of the time, people would just use the one. But one time, I had to use the other. And I noticed the clock was behind on the other. By about ten minutes.
So after that, I would clock in on the computer showing the prior time stamp, and clock out on the computer with accurate time. Ten minutes a day, five days a week, for a whole summer? About a free $100
Nice!! That's the kind of perk I like.
sorry to burst your bubble but if there were two PCs capable of clocking you in, then 99% it wasn't either of them keeping track of the time, but rather a separate server they were connected to
I've worked in IT. You are most likely correct, and anyone with any sense would do it that way, but I would absolutely believe that someone could be incompetent enough to use the computer's time stamp. I also wouldn't be surprised if users had access to change the clock.
You underestimate how shitty most software is written.
I've absolutely used timecard software that used the local device time instead of using a centralized time source.
I wasn't really sure that it would work, but I checked my paycheck and it seemed to be working. This was in 2006 at a country club. So it's not shocking that a) they had a paid some nobodies to give them a bad time keeping software and b) it was designed to not need the internet.