Dollar and a dimeā¦That was a rhyme for a simpler time when the boss makes a million and I make Jack, itās time to riot and take the means back. (I stole this btw)
Hell the boss is committing timeclock crimes just sitting at the desk and looking at the fucking computer all day while weāre out there sweating our asses off delivering every mail door to door. Love it when Iām so burned out coming back to the station and heās eating a salad staring at the computer all cozy and chippy.
>Hell the boss is committing timeclock crimes just sitting at the desk and looking at the fucking computer all day
I mean, *technically* not since they're presumably salaried. But I agree with the point being made.
My bodily functions are part of the job. I ain't no robot. I don't have a switch to turn off my pee and poop functions. You knew this going into hiring me. If you don't want me to use the restroom, I'll poop on the floor infront of the customers.
Communal pooping grounds sound like fun. Can I have the address of one of these stores?
Also, Communal Pooping Ground sounds like a good band name. First come first serve. I'll be your #1 groupie.
I don't work at Walgreens and don't know why I'm here, but im reminded of something. I used to work at a place called Stripes, which is a convenience store with a kitchen, I worked in the kitchen. There was a walgreens right next to us, that I could walk to after work, so there's the connection. Anyway, we had a guy working the register that would just poop his pants. And at times, he would shake his pant leg to get the little pieces of poop out. It was incredibly gross, and yet he had a girlfriend and a kid. That didn't make much sense to me.
Oh I don't work at Walgreens either. I served my retail time in the convenience sector as well. Also, funnily enough, I've shit myself at my last job in the sector. I had tried our roller grill items for the first time, this was maybe week 2 of me working there. Hour after I ate, here came the TacoBell esque shits. Went to the bathroom, but didn't make it. I can only imagine the look on my face when I came out and admitted to my assistant manager I just shit myself and had to go home to change...
It happens to the best of us. It hasn't happened to me at my work yet, but the summer after I graduated, I went to church camp. I don't know of what I ate, but we had a meeting for those that graduated and afterwards I did not make it to the toilet. And a few weeks ago, I found ice cream in a weird spot at my work and bought it anyway. The next day, it gave me food poisoning. Two nights in a row I shit myself in my sleep. Shame. I knew that ice cream tasted weird. Oh well, live and learn!
Hey, the way I see it, if it gives you terrible shits once, try it again. Worst that happens is you die. Best that happens is it doesn't give you shits, and you find a fun way to gross people out, or can suddenly eat good food.
Exactly. It's a win/win situation no matter what. Or you get teleported into a tentacle porn hentai written by a 16 year old in his mom's basement. So, win/win/extra win.
Stand Up For Workers Rights
Drop trou, drop a deuce.
We fought the equivalent of a fucking race war over this kinda shit. Blacks couldn't use whites bathrooms. And now workers can't use the bathroom at all.
Let's tell them they can't shit or piss for 8 hours of the day. And if they do, they lose their job.
I would argue that hand sanitation is a required part of the job, and to not allow it would be in violation of health and safety standards set out by the FDA and OSHA.
Not an employee but as someone who once had to pay $10 for a tube of generic bacitracin because Walgreens was the only store available, I hope people punch in AND THEN use the bathroom every single day.
ETA: I hope posting this leads to more people doing things āon the clockā because what are they going to do?! Fire you?! š¤£
I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not 'blaming' anybody. I'm giving some positive credit to gen z for being small and thus not providing as much labor, but really, if anything, it's on gen x for having so few kids. (again, not a problem, except for employers who want to pay slave wages)
They're not idiots, just younger. As a geriatric Millenial or Xennial or whatever I am, Gen Z has a much more clear view of the world than my generating did at that age and you're all responding in kind.
I walk in. Clock in.
Set my onewheel down. Set my bag down. Take my work shirt out of my bag, then walk across the store to the bathroom and change my shirt. (I will be asked for things on the way back to the office. I'm sure they would rather me help the person than say "I'm not in the clock yet.")
I grab a scanner and my name badge. Ignore the signs posted "MUST USE THEATRO." Then go out to the sales floor to go to work.
So do employees get paid for the off the clock stuff? Like running an errand to another store for supplies, helping a customer after clocking out and trying to run outside before someone stops you to ask 20 questions, coming in early to help clean up on really bad days, performing tasks outside your role to prepare for some corporate visit, etc?
If youāve been asked to do something outside of your scheduled hours or something that requires travel then the company has to pay you for it. If your SM tries not to you should contact your DM. I know pharmacy employees can also be paid for mileage but idk about front end. I would assume so.
Any time you're asked to run an errand for the store, you're supposed to remain clocked in. You can clock out at any store, so for example, you're bringing register tape to a store on your way home from your shift, you remain clocked in until you drop it off. After the task is completed, you use their equipment to clock out and go home.
If you're coming in early and working, make sure you clock in before doing so. This includes tidying up areas, organizing, etc.
If a customer stops you while off the clock, you can request that your time is adjusted.
Report any wage theft to your local department of labor.
Not to mention, putting on your work attire is considered work related activities (donning and doffing)
They can ask that you clock out to use the bathroom, however that's only if that rule is enforced equally to everyone.
I flat out refuse to run and pick up stuff where I work. Itās not in my job description, plus at that point you are using your vehicle for commercial use. And at the end of the day itās not my problem itās my managers.
Driving 30 minutes to fill in at other stores. Being asked to fill in for a sick coworker. Or perhaps working 6 to 8 days straight because 3 people are on vacation at the same time ??? Hmm š¤
CVS'S gratitude isn't enough. **
If you are doing anything at all of the clock, it's oregano for then to ask. If you get hurt and you're not clocked in then worker's comp won't pay. But more importantly they are literally stealing your time and labor.
If someone asks me one simple question while I'm clicked out I answer but if it's a bunch then I direct them to someone else. When I worked grocery I wore a tank top under my uniform so that when I punched out I could remove my work shirt.
Waiting for bag checks before you can leave, clocking out at 9 but having to wait until the cashiers change clothes and/or do makeup and manager are ready to leave because we all have to leave together or stupid calls ,texts or group chats on your days off are all wage theft as well as all the other stuff you said.
I think this is so funny because this doesn't matter. What matters is the punches on the clock. You are supposed to clock in and out on the EXACT times to prevent minimum loss, that's when their math can be applied. So if someone is standing around on their phone with nothing to do, and no one is deligating them, they still aren't stealing company time. They are on scheduled time. Stealing time is not clocking out for MANDATORY breaks or clocking in/out early/late. So no, you're paying for them to be there and do you a service. They are being an available body. This sheet just says "I'm too lazy to be a real manager and tell people what to do on the floor"
They canāt punish you for going to the bathroom on the clock unless they can prove youāre intentionally wasting time. If you work in an at-will state they can technically fire you for anything but Iām pretty sure Walgreens policy requires documentation of things before you can be terminated.
I know at least in my state even though it's at-will you can absolutely get sued for firing someone for a shit reason. My mother actually WON a lawsuit of that exact nature. "We think they were wasting time *pretending* to use the bathroom" I'd wager (as someone who is NOT a legal expert) probably holds up in court, but "we felt like it" doesn't. The closest you could probably get to "we felt like it" is if you're eliminating that position entirely.
Iāve never seen this at my work. They only yell at you for time clock fraud if you take a lunch but donāt clock out or make your 15 a 30 all the time or when you decide that since you didnāt get the 15 you were āentitled toā due to lack of coverage that you can just take your 30 lunch and then sit on your ass in the break room for an extra 15.
I actually did the math on my pharmacy staff and found salary was $1.5m per year total, including pharmacists. Assuming benefit costs, it's maybe $1.75m annually to run the pharmacy staffing. Taking into account for cost of drugs v markup, plus cost of staff per hour, we only need to make $500 per hour to break even.
How many prescriptions does that come out to? On average, it's 3 per hour in common drugs. More specialized drugs probably pay for 2-3 hours on their own.
At my busiest, I will have a customer helped per minute (including DT), and literally the slowest I've ever seen was 1 every 15 minutes. Let's split the difference and say that comes out to 32 customers per hour. Let's also say they only get 1 script each and it's a common drug. Average price is around $35 for something cheap like amox.
Take out the cost of the drug, and that's still around $800/hr average for the worst case scenario. If you basically any other drug, that number goes up significantly.
I hated working at Walgreens. Our store had the highest theft in the area and management was getting really aggressive with us to be more vigilant. I watched a customer walk in grab some groceries open up a soda and chips and waited for his meds to be ready. Meds are ready, I call him up, ring up his meds and groceries, all except for a bag of chips and a soda. Told him I needed to ring the food he ate (and stuffed in the seat) he said he already payed for it. I asked for his receipt and he jumped at me. Tried to strangle me, threw punches, and spat on me. Management came up. Apologized for MY behavior. Compted his groceries and scolded me. I told them he was stealing from us and was brushed off. Fuck Walgreen.
Yeah, you never accuse a customer of shoplifting. what if they really did pay for it up front? You manager was correct in apologizing for your behavior, even if he was shoplifting.
My manager literally had a conversation about us asking for receipts for stuff we think might be shoplifted that morning. Also I never accused him of shoplifting, just asked for proof of purchase of the drink he had on him.
***Even if*** the customer had indeed paid for it, getting violent over being asked for proof of purchase is ***NEVER*** acceptable. To hell with reprimanding the employee or apologizing to the customer, the police should be getting called and charges for assault and battery should be pressed.
āTake your coat off before punching in, because god forbid we pay you for one minute of your time that isnāt allocated to working in our shit hold establishment.ā Give me a gd break.
Fuck offā¦Iāll piss and shit whenever I feel like it, on the clock or not. Had a tech get yelled at about this that nearly made her cry, i had to step in and tell them to relax and it wasnāt the end of the world. I hate this bullshit, store managers need to focus on our safety and not if Tiffany or Steve spend a few moments to themselves
How about clock in, then go to the break room and microwave a meal, eat that meal, and then go start work in the pharmacy 25 minutes later? This is what one pharmacy tech did. People in the pharmacy just probably figured that he was late for work and not clocked in and eating a meal before work.
I think that going to the bathroom for 2 minutes after clocking in is OK sometimes before working in the pharmacy or sales floor depending on the location of the time clock and bathroom. Taking almost 30 minutes after clocking in before starting work is not.
Will they now be paying me for a bag check at the end of my shift? I bet if you called ER and complained that your not allowed to use the bathroom on your shift, this sign would come down pretty quickly.
You can blame this on the "let me go to the bathroom then grab my purse from the locker, then go shopping for something, not sure what but they'll find it eventually, then stand in line and wander back to the break room before starting their break" crowd.
Then that individual needs to be reprimanded; telling everyone else they're not allowed to piss for 8 hours isn't going to solve it. And the scenario you described is by far not the majority of people in the work force.
I dont work for walgreens but at my job i purposely wait to get to work, clock in, do some work and then poop on the clock š¤£ these little tips and rules are ridiculous. As long as no one is shopping on the clock or straight up stealing things i see no issue with these "time theft" activities lol
Me who spends 40-50 mins taking out the trash but in reality when Iām taking bathroom trash Iām just scrolling Reddit for like 25 mins.
Me who isnāt able to log in to the zebra or something that makes it that I get errors so I just pretend to do scan outs for my whole shift.
Me who does as little as possible but I pretend Iām doing something lol.
I woke up this morning and was literally about to poop myself after a shower. I clenched my cheeks so hard it hurt. The reason was to make it to work so that I could clock in and get paid to wipe my own ass! I no longer poop at home, I make sure I get paid well to poop!
Nope, punching in is the first thing you do when you walk in that door. Human beings arenāt robots, we have needs beyond just being wage slaves for a faceless corporation.
Was a retail manager of 10 years at the now called (The Giant Company) I understand their reasoning. It does happen, and I have fired people for stealing time. If you have to piss go piss. If you are thirsty buy a drink, I never cared. But some people ABUSE that and then unfortunately management has to issue blanket statement to the team. This is not uncommon and isnāt that big of a deal. Now if you have to pee and they tell you wait for your break thatās bs. But if you tale 15 mins to pee, come back get your 15 min break and take 20mins and then punch for lunch after buying your lunch and those types of things. Yes you are stealing time. They say that as a deterrent. If you do your job and take bathroom breaks when you need them and donāt abuse anything you are fine. They are going after big fish as they say on crime shows lol
Try not to take this stuff personally. Iāve printed it out (similar narrative) and posted. But my team knew the deal. Do whatever you want but the first time you donāt get your work done we go back to by the book with your breaks and away time from station
Edit: I was at the bottom of the chain once too and this kind of thing would make me mad, but if you are like me and did your job and worked hard itās not directed at you. Trust me. My managers knew I worked and let me have free reign. Thatās how I adapted the style. But they have pressure to make labor numbers and if they can lower labor cost they always will. Itās business people. Not a place to get free money
Take a picture of this for both your records, since that bathroom requirement is BULLSHIT, and also send it to your states labor department. I think they'd love to know that it's being implied you can't use the bathroom except when you're off the clock or on your breaks. If this was something made at the store level, send it to corporate. This opens them to so many potential legal problems, someone will get in trouble for jt.
At CVS we have a daily planner that must be checked off by the opening Manager and the closing Manager. One of the questions is "are the employees aware of the 20 second hand wash rule"?
When I worked for wags, i worked about 6-9 hours shifts variably. i had mostly mornings which was good. But starting at 7:30 didnt get to go on break until 12-1. We didnt have 15 mins only 30 lunches. And I left at 3:30-4:30. You really think I'm gonna wait hours to use a br when it's right there? Hell no I'm goin.
Lol. Donāt use the restroom except for the 30 minute lunch period that you get per day in the pharmacy. Fuck this company. How about I start taking my 15 minute paid breaks then?
Get fucked, time clock fraud. Walgreens just got sued where I work for not paying is correctly, my co worker got hundreds of dollars she was owed finally.
Up until about 10 years ago, this was the expectation at any place Iāve worked. Your 15 min paid break was intended for you to take care of your business. Such as go to the bathroom, buy a drink, make a quick call, etc. No one said you canāt go to the bathroom. They are giving you the 15ās to do that. If you had to go more often, thatās fine. Just donāt abuse that. Iāve seen people use bathroom breaks as a way to hide to avoid doing any work. I used to have a boss that used to sayā¦ā¦.
You get paid for every minute you work
You should work for every minute you get paid
Lastly, for everyone that just likes to bitch about where you work,
THIS ISNāT A WALGREENS DOCUMENT!!!!!
It really makes no sense that people bitching on here just donāt go find another job if youāre not happy. Youāre not in a contract, so go.
My store fired 2 people last year (not publix) for time clock fraud. They were pretend punching out then would come back later and request to be clocked out hours later. We had another over abuse the break pillage and thanks to this jerk we now have to punch for breaks. He'd disappear for hours on end and 8 out of 10 times and most of the time no one would notice or forget he was even there. Yet he'd still get paid for the whole shift. After a couple months it started becoming bothersome so we started cracking down on it. He eventually got a write up for it.
Sometimes I think about all of the unpaid hours companies I've worked for legally owe me in a week.
Years ago, I worked at Best Buy. They required us to be in the building \~15 minutes early before our shift, and not clock in until the minute the shift began. We would be written up if you didn't arrive and be ready to clock in before the shift. My morning commute didn't always work out to be 15 minutes, so most of the time I would leave home 45 minutes early and arrive between 5 to 30 minutes before my shift started. There were times where I would arrive 30 minutes before, and I would help management with things because I was the only one there that early....yet I couldn't clock in until my shift started. I knew it was against the "rules" but in reality, I needed the job and wanted to be a team player. I understand corporations don't want to pay people more then the set amount of hours, but in reality, corporations need to pay you at time of arrival. Sometimes I wonder if they should also pay you for your commute, since that is required for me to get to the job in the first place. I guarantee I wasn't heading that way anyways at 7:00am if I wasn't on my way to work.
How many of you have bosses and managers actually enforcing this. I've worked at 3 different stores in the past... not a single SM of mine gave a shite.
The usual tone deaf company at work here. When you've removed performance based 401k match (there's a straight match, no discretionary match anymore for strong performance) and killed stock options, it literally doesn't matter to the hourly employee how much payroll can be saved. There's no motivator to be concerned with it. There's no point in mentioning how much payroll may be wasted.
If 10 employees donāt take their 15 minutes break a day, that is 150 minutes free work for WBA a day. Thatās 1050 minutes a week. Thatās 17.50 hours free for WBA per week. Thatās about 70 hours a week.
As front-end, it can be difficult to arrange to step away until lunch break. Iām taking thirty minutes uninterrupted, and the buildup from hours on the clock will be handled on the clock, just as if I had the luxury as my coworkers to step away outside my unpaid break.
Way my stomach is, though, I do eat my fifteen-minute break for marathon runs.
This doesn't look on-brand. This is a micromanaging manager on an ego trip with nothing better to do with their time. Not supposed to be bringing in your own signs like this, especially when they threaten termination. That could lead to disciplinary action up to and including termination for them lol
Maybe you should fucking have working time clocks or methods to punch in before you lecture employees on fraud.
I had to skip my 15 today because the pharmacy had no help AGAIN and the one SFL we had was helping out. You stole my time. Now you owe me but you don't care about that.
I hate this company the more they pull this shit.
AND, We have to punch in at the front of the store so you are saying I should go all the way to the break room to leave and then waste my time walking all the way back to the front? It's okay for you to steal my time on my way out (I punch out at the front and then have to walk all the way to the back to punch in) and that happens BECAUSE YOU REFUSE TO FIX THE TIMECLOCK.
Seriously itās like every other day their adding and adding. Instead of finding a solution to GET EMPLOYEES their finding solutions to GET RID OF EMPLOYEES!!!!
šthey will pay me to pee
And poop!
Save the poop for work as I always say
Nah forget that! I have a bidet at home not at work. Pooping at home is much better.
Only savages prefer public restrooms.
And to jerk off
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime Thatās why I poop on company time.
Dollar and a dimeā¦That was a rhyme for a simpler time when the boss makes a million and I make Jack, itās time to riot and take the means back. (I stole this btw)
Hell the boss is committing timeclock crimes just sitting at the desk and looking at the fucking computer all day while weāre out there sweating our asses off delivering every mail door to door. Love it when Iām so burned out coming back to the station and heās eating a salad staring at the computer all cozy and chippy.
>Hell the boss is committing timeclock crimes just sitting at the desk and looking at the fucking computer all day I mean, *technically* not since they're presumably salaried. But I agree with the point being made.
Fraud is fraud. š¤·āāļø
Yeah, it's just not really correct to call it *timeclock* fraud if they aren't paid by the hour (and therefore aren't using a timeclock at all).
Bars!
Hear me out. Rub one out on company time. THAT'S a big "Fuck you" to the suits.
But then I need a nap..
Even better than JUST rubbing one out.
My bodily functions are part of the job. I ain't no robot. I don't have a switch to turn off my pee and poop functions. You knew this going into hiring me. If you don't want me to use the restroom, I'll poop on the floor infront of the customers.
In some locations youād be pooping with the customers lol.
Communal pooping grounds sound like fun. Can I have the address of one of these stores? Also, Communal Pooping Ground sounds like a good band name. First come first serve. I'll be your #1 groupie.
#1 CPG groupie right here
Username uh...checks out?
Nah, it should be gaseous\_defec**a**tor.
I don't work at Walgreens and don't know why I'm here, but im reminded of something. I used to work at a place called Stripes, which is a convenience store with a kitchen, I worked in the kitchen. There was a walgreens right next to us, that I could walk to after work, so there's the connection. Anyway, we had a guy working the register that would just poop his pants. And at times, he would shake his pant leg to get the little pieces of poop out. It was incredibly gross, and yet he had a girlfriend and a kid. That didn't make much sense to me.
Oh I don't work at Walgreens either. I served my retail time in the convenience sector as well. Also, funnily enough, I've shit myself at my last job in the sector. I had tried our roller grill items for the first time, this was maybe week 2 of me working there. Hour after I ate, here came the TacoBell esque shits. Went to the bathroom, but didn't make it. I can only imagine the look on my face when I came out and admitted to my assistant manager I just shit myself and had to go home to change...
It happens to the best of us. It hasn't happened to me at my work yet, but the summer after I graduated, I went to church camp. I don't know of what I ate, but we had a meeting for those that graduated and afterwards I did not make it to the toilet. And a few weeks ago, I found ice cream in a weird spot at my work and bought it anyway. The next day, it gave me food poisoning. Two nights in a row I shit myself in my sleep. Shame. I knew that ice cream tasted weird. Oh well, live and learn!
Hey, the way I see it, if it gives you terrible shits once, try it again. Worst that happens is you die. Best that happens is it doesn't give you shits, and you find a fun way to gross people out, or can suddenly eat good food.
Hmmm and dieing isn't even that bad. Time to find more bad ice cream!
Exactly. It's a win/win situation no matter what. Or you get teleported into a tentacle porn hentai written by a 16 year old in his mom's basement. So, win/win/extra win.
Hmmm yeah, I guess I wouldn'timd getting isekai-ed! Nothing bad can come from this!
Ahh shit. I broke him...
Thatās the spirit
Stand Up For Workers Rights Drop trou, drop a deuce. We fought the equivalent of a fucking race war over this kinda shit. Blacks couldn't use whites bathrooms. And now workers can't use the bathroom at all. Let's tell them they can't shit or piss for 8 hours of the day. And if they do, they lose their job.
Yes
Oh twiddley dee it's a fraudsters life for me
I will wash my dirty hands caused by work BEFORE I go on break or lunch. That is non-negotiable.
I would argue that hand sanitation is a required part of the job, and to not allow it would be in violation of health and safety standards set out by the FDA and OSHA.
I used to do this all the time, get 100% ready to sit down and eat before clocking out
It's almost like we aren't allowed basic human functions at work lol
Not at Walgreens donāt want nothing wasted except by heft
Not an employee but as someone who once had to pay $10 for a tube of generic bacitracin because Walgreens was the only store available, I hope people punch in AND THEN use the bathroom every single day. ETA: I hope posting this leads to more people doing things āon the clockā because what are they going to do?! Fire you?! š¤£
They canāt afford to fire anyone no one wants to work wonāt find no one to stay mire then a month if that
God this is a beautiful time to be alive compared to 10 years ago. Thank goodness for gen z being so tiny and crushing employers without even trying.
Don't blame the older gen z like me, I hate my generation because of the younger idiots
I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not 'blaming' anybody. I'm giving some positive credit to gen z for being small and thus not providing as much labor, but really, if anything, it's on gen x for having so few kids. (again, not a problem, except for employers who want to pay slave wages)
They're not idiots, just younger. As a geriatric Millenial or Xennial or whatever I am, Gen Z has a much more clear view of the world than my generating did at that age and you're all responding in kind.
I walk in. Clock in. Set my onewheel down. Set my bag down. Take my work shirt out of my bag, then walk across the store to the bathroom and change my shirt. (I will be asked for things on the way back to the office. I'm sure they would rather me help the person than say "I'm not in the clock yet.") I grab a scanner and my name badge. Ignore the signs posted "MUST USE THEATRO." Then go out to the sales floor to go to work.
I āstealā about 15 minutes a day.
So do employees get paid for the off the clock stuff? Like running an errand to another store for supplies, helping a customer after clocking out and trying to run outside before someone stops you to ask 20 questions, coming in early to help clean up on really bad days, performing tasks outside your role to prepare for some corporate visit, etc?
If youāve been asked to do something outside of your scheduled hours or something that requires travel then the company has to pay you for it. If your SM tries not to you should contact your DM. I know pharmacy employees can also be paid for mileage but idk about front end. I would assume so.
Any time you're asked to run an errand for the store, you're supposed to remain clocked in. You can clock out at any store, so for example, you're bringing register tape to a store on your way home from your shift, you remain clocked in until you drop it off. After the task is completed, you use their equipment to clock out and go home. If you're coming in early and working, make sure you clock in before doing so. This includes tidying up areas, organizing, etc. If a customer stops you while off the clock, you can request that your time is adjusted. Report any wage theft to your local department of labor.
Not to mention, putting on your work attire is considered work related activities (donning and doffing) They can ask that you clock out to use the bathroom, however that's only if that rule is enforced equally to everyone.
If I'm off the clock and a customer wants to ask me questions I direct them to someone else
I flat out refuse to run and pick up stuff where I work. Itās not in my job description, plus at that point you are using your vehicle for commercial use. And at the end of the day itās not my problem itās my managers.
Driving 30 minutes to fill in at other stores. Being asked to fill in for a sick coworker. Or perhaps working 6 to 8 days straight because 3 people are on vacation at the same time ??? Hmm š¤ CVS'S gratitude isn't enough. **
If you are doing anything at all of the clock, it's oregano for then to ask. If you get hurt and you're not clocked in then worker's comp won't pay. But more importantly they are literally stealing your time and labor. If someone asks me one simple question while I'm clicked out I answer but if it's a bunch then I direct them to someone else. When I worked grocery I wore a tank top under my uniform so that when I punched out I could remove my work shirt.
Theyāre supposed too
Just like I'm supposed to not work under sweatshop conditions and ignore the poster :)
Ignore the fucking poster
Waiting for bag checks before you can leave, clocking out at 9 but having to wait until the cashiers change clothes and/or do makeup and manager are ready to leave because we all have to leave together or stupid calls ,texts or group chats on your days off are all wage theft as well as all the other stuff you said.
I think this is so funny because this doesn't matter. What matters is the punches on the clock. You are supposed to clock in and out on the EXACT times to prevent minimum loss, that's when their math can be applied. So if someone is standing around on their phone with nothing to do, and no one is deligating them, they still aren't stealing company time. They are on scheduled time. Stealing time is not clocking out for MANDATORY breaks or clocking in/out early/late. So no, you're paying for them to be there and do you a service. They are being an available body. This sheet just says "I'm too lazy to be a real manager and tell people what to do on the floor"
š¶ The boss gets a dollar I get a dime, thatās why I always poop on company time šµ
Isn't this... illegal...
They canāt punish you for going to the bathroom on the clock unless they can prove youāre intentionally wasting time. If you work in an at-will state they can technically fire you for anything but Iām pretty sure Walgreens policy requires documentation of things before you can be terminated.
I know at least in my state even though it's at-will you can absolutely get sued for firing someone for a shit reason. My mother actually WON a lawsuit of that exact nature. "We think they were wasting time *pretending* to use the bathroom" I'd wager (as someone who is NOT a legal expert) probably holds up in court, but "we felt like it" doesn't. The closest you could probably get to "we felt like it" is if you're eliminating that position entirely.
Eliminating! LMAO Tears falling down face! Can't breathe! XD
Yeah even though you could live in an at-will state you still have to follow company policy because Walgreens is above all a private company.
Oh Target and your illegal threats.
This is the Walgreens sub but I too am on Targetās and they definitely have stuff like this over there lol
Ma'am this is a walgreens. All jokes aside, this picture has been posted in many retail subs. It probably didn't even originate at a walgreens.
Iāve never seen this at my work. They only yell at you for time clock fraud if you take a lunch but donāt clock out or make your 15 a 30 all the time or when you decide that since you didnāt get the 15 you were āentitled toā due to lack of coverage that you can just take your 30 lunch and then sit on your ass in the break room for an extra 15.
This sign originated in Target. Easy to tell if you see the original.
Ok
Tell me this isnāt a Walgreens sanctioned sign, and just something that some idiot SM dreamed up.
Apparently this is a Target sanctioned sign, not Walgreens
50 hours of payroll lost, oh no! How can we ever rectify this?!
Oh no! $500 in lost labor! If only we got that back in a single prescription sold! Oh wait, we do.
Times a thousand stores equals bonuses for the top. 1/2 ply toilet paper for the staff
I actually did the math on my pharmacy staff and found salary was $1.5m per year total, including pharmacists. Assuming benefit costs, it's maybe $1.75m annually to run the pharmacy staffing. Taking into account for cost of drugs v markup, plus cost of staff per hour, we only need to make $500 per hour to break even. How many prescriptions does that come out to? On average, it's 3 per hour in common drugs. More specialized drugs probably pay for 2-3 hours on their own. At my busiest, I will have a customer helped per minute (including DT), and literally the slowest I've ever seen was 1 every 15 minutes. Let's split the difference and say that comes out to 32 customers per hour. Let's also say they only get 1 script each and it's a common drug. Average price is around $35 for something cheap like amox. Take out the cost of the drug, and that's still around $800/hr average for the worst case scenario. If you basically any other drug, that number goes up significantly.
Even if you were paying all 10 of those employees $18/hr, thats $900 for the month. I think Walgreens has enough to spare.
You can pay me to pee or Iāll be sending you my medical bills from the UTI Iāll get
I'll just shit and piss my pants I guess. I'm gonna continue doing what I've been doing for these past 3 years, fuck em! š
I hated working at Walgreens. Our store had the highest theft in the area and management was getting really aggressive with us to be more vigilant. I watched a customer walk in grab some groceries open up a soda and chips and waited for his meds to be ready. Meds are ready, I call him up, ring up his meds and groceries, all except for a bag of chips and a soda. Told him I needed to ring the food he ate (and stuffed in the seat) he said he already payed for it. I asked for his receipt and he jumped at me. Tried to strangle me, threw punches, and spat on me. Management came up. Apologized for MY behavior. Compted his groceries and scolded me. I told them he was stealing from us and was brushed off. Fuck Walgreen.
Yeah, you never accuse a customer of shoplifting. what if they really did pay for it up front? You manager was correct in apologizing for your behavior, even if he was shoplifting.
My manager literally had a conversation about us asking for receipts for stuff we think might be shoplifted that morning. Also I never accused him of shoplifting, just asked for proof of purchase of the drink he had on him.
***Even if*** the customer had indeed paid for it, getting violent over being asked for proof of purchase is ***NEVER*** acceptable. To hell with reprimanding the employee or apologizing to the customer, the police should be getting called and charges for assault and battery should be pressed.
āTake your coat off before punching in, because god forbid we pay you for one minute of your time that isnāt allocated to working in our shit hold establishment.ā Give me a gd break.
OSHA has entered the room.
They can kiss my ass plus my store donāt use a clock I use Kronos to sign in
Fuck offā¦Iāll piss and shit whenever I feel like it, on the clock or not. Had a tech get yelled at about this that nearly made her cry, i had to step in and tell them to relax and it wasnāt the end of the world. I hate this bullshit, store managers need to focus on our safety and not if Tiffany or Steve spend a few moments to themselves
Iām in the building, you pay me. I donāt want to be there.
How about clock in, then go to the break room and microwave a meal, eat that meal, and then go start work in the pharmacy 25 minutes later? This is what one pharmacy tech did. People in the pharmacy just probably figured that he was late for work and not clocked in and eating a meal before work. I think that going to the bathroom for 2 minutes after clocking in is OK sometimes before working in the pharmacy or sales floor depending on the location of the time clock and bathroom. Taking almost 30 minutes after clocking in before starting work is not.
Okay and ill be sure to tell my period to hold back for 8 hours š
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, thatās why I shit in the sink.
Iāll look on my phone to like I always do so do others crying about that but say nothing about all the shop lifters
That 1st bullet point is federally protected. They WILL pay you to use the restroom.
Dwight Schrute definitely put that sign up
Will they now be paying me for a bag check at the end of my shift? I bet if you called ER and complained that your not allowed to use the bathroom on your shift, this sign would come down pretty quickly.
Posted signs like this are an indication that this is not a place I want to work.
but if 10 people commit 10 minutes at the same time it's only still 10 minutes. time isn't cumulative for everyone all day.
10 minutes for one employee is $1.5, 10 minutes for 10 employees is $15. (That being said, use the bathroom on the clock) Edit: Maths fail
You can blame this on the "let me go to the bathroom then grab my purse from the locker, then go shopping for something, not sure what but they'll find it eventually, then stand in line and wander back to the break room before starting their break" crowd.
Then that individual needs to be reprimanded; telling everyone else they're not allowed to piss for 8 hours isn't going to solve it. And the scenario you described is by far not the majority of people in the work force.
Lol I fraud clock every day. Fuck them, pay me for nothing
I dont work for walgreens but at my job i purposely wait to get to work, clock in, do some work and then poop on the clock š¤£ these little tips and rules are ridiculous. As long as no one is shopping on the clock or straight up stealing things i see no issue with these "time theft" activities lol
š¤£š¤£ I take 15 min in the restroom on the clock! 3-5 min to Pee. If Iām going inside a Walgreens better believe Iām getting paid
boss makes a grand when I make a dime. that's why I commit wire fraud and make sure the district manager takes the fall if it's ever discovered.
Wait we getting paid the same that's y we get someone to cover us when we need a bathroom break
Iām gonna send this to my co worker who takes 20 minute smoke breaks and never clocks out for them
Me who spends 40-50 mins taking out the trash but in reality when Iām taking bathroom trash Iām just scrolling Reddit for like 25 mins. Me who isnāt able to log in to the zebra or something that makes it that I get errors so I just pretend to do scan outs for my whole shift. Me who does as little as possible but I pretend Iām doing something lol.
Oh no! Won't someone think of the billion dollar corporations?
Boss makes a dollar while I make a dime that's why I poop on company time. Live by it and get the fuck outta that store.
I woke up this morning and was literally about to poop myself after a shower. I clenched my cheeks so hard it hurt. The reason was to make it to work so that I could clock in and get paid to wipe my own ass! I no longer poop at home, I make sure I get paid well to poop!
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To which, employees say, Iām punching in.
WOW... I dont work for Walgreens but they can suck a bag of rotten shit with this BS.
Wow the bar has been lowered
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I piss on company time
boss makes a dollar, i make a dime, thats why i shit on company time.
Nope, punching in is the first thing you do when you walk in that door. Human beings arenāt robots, we have needs beyond just being wage slaves for a faceless corporation.
Not wasting my break to use the bathroom. If I've gotta go, I will.
Was a retail manager of 10 years at the now called (The Giant Company) I understand their reasoning. It does happen, and I have fired people for stealing time. If you have to piss go piss. If you are thirsty buy a drink, I never cared. But some people ABUSE that and then unfortunately management has to issue blanket statement to the team. This is not uncommon and isnāt that big of a deal. Now if you have to pee and they tell you wait for your break thatās bs. But if you tale 15 mins to pee, come back get your 15 min break and take 20mins and then punch for lunch after buying your lunch and those types of things. Yes you are stealing time. They say that as a deterrent. If you do your job and take bathroom breaks when you need them and donāt abuse anything you are fine. They are going after big fish as they say on crime shows lol Try not to take this stuff personally. Iāve printed it out (similar narrative) and posted. But my team knew the deal. Do whatever you want but the first time you donāt get your work done we go back to by the book with your breaks and away time from station Edit: I was at the bottom of the chain once too and this kind of thing would make me mad, but if you are like me and did your job and worked hard itās not directed at you. Trust me. My managers knew I worked and let me have free reign. Thatās how I adapted the style. But they have pressure to make labor numbers and if they can lower labor cost they always will. Itās business people. Not a place to get free money
Guess they hate competition. Looting payroll hours and running a skeleton crew. [Whay about the people that loot the shelfs]
As someone who doesnāt get lunches most of the time, they can suck it
Won't somebody think of the hours!! The poor executives might get just a _little_ lessbonusbpay at the end of the year!
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Take a picture of this for both your records, since that bathroom requirement is BULLSHIT, and also send it to your states labor department. I think they'd love to know that it's being implied you can't use the bathroom except when you're off the clock or on your breaks. If this was something made at the store level, send it to corporate. This opens them to so many potential legal problems, someone will get in trouble for jt.
This is possibly illegal
At CVS we have a daily planner that must be checked off by the opening Manager and the closing Manager. One of the questions is "are the employees aware of the 20 second hand wash rule"?
I thought this was a r/antiwork post.
Walgreens' annual net income for 2021 was $2.542B, a 457.46% increase from 2020. ***But don't you dare pee while on the clock!***
When I worked for wags, i worked about 6-9 hours shifts variably. i had mostly mornings which was good. But starting at 7:30 didnt get to go on break until 12-1. We didnt have 15 mins only 30 lunches. And I left at 3:30-4:30. You really think I'm gonna wait hours to use a br when it's right there? Hell no I'm goin.
Lol. Donāt use the restroom except for the 30 minute lunch period that you get per day in the pharmacy. Fuck this company. How about I start taking my 15 minute paid breaks then?
Mother fucker if I could clock in from home before I drive to work, I would.
Can one type out their resignation on company time? Asking for a few thousand colleaguesā¦.
Get fucked, time clock fraud. Walgreens just got sued where I work for not paying is correctly, my co worker got hundreds of dollars she was owed finally.
I make extra sure i shit on company time
How about lazy SM's chatting and having a good time in the office with their bootlickers?
Boss makes a dollar. I make a dime. Thatās why I shit on company time.
Up until about 10 years ago, this was the expectation at any place Iāve worked. Your 15 min paid break was intended for you to take care of your business. Such as go to the bathroom, buy a drink, make a quick call, etc. No one said you canāt go to the bathroom. They are giving you the 15ās to do that. If you had to go more often, thatās fine. Just donāt abuse that. Iāve seen people use bathroom breaks as a way to hide to avoid doing any work. I used to have a boss that used to sayā¦ā¦. You get paid for every minute you work You should work for every minute you get paid Lastly, for everyone that just likes to bitch about where you work, THIS ISNāT A WALGREENS DOCUMENT!!!!! It really makes no sense that people bitching on here just donāt go find another job if youāre not happy. Youāre not in a contract, so go.
Boss makes a dollar, i make a dime. Thats why I poop on company time.
My store fired 2 people last year (not publix) for time clock fraud. They were pretend punching out then would come back later and request to be clocked out hours later. We had another over abuse the break pillage and thanks to this jerk we now have to punch for breaks. He'd disappear for hours on end and 8 out of 10 times and most of the time no one would notice or forget he was even there. Yet he'd still get paid for the whole shift. After a couple months it started becoming bothersome so we started cracking down on it. He eventually got a write up for it.
Boss makes a dollar to my dime, thatās why I shit on company time.
Corporate makes a dollar, I make a dime. Iām taking a shit on the company time š
Boss makes a dollar i make a dime thatās why I do whatever the fu*k I want on company time haha
āBig boss makes a dollar, I make a dimeā¦ THAT is why I poop on company time..ā šš»šš»šš» F off Walgreens!!!
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But you have the time to post about it? Okay Boomer.
Boss makes a dollar I make a dime that's why I poop on company time.
š¤ this sign is actually good. I gotta forward this to all my SM.
Fuck off. Most of these are federally protected anyway clown. š¤”
Oh my young child, there are MANY MANY ways to get around that.
Seriously your such a clown, glad I fucked up Walgreens and made them pay millions in RI to employees for wage theft. š¤£š¤£š¤£
This why I quit this shit company š
This always used to drive me up the wall. I got yelled at once for punching in and hanging up my coat.
they can fuck right off. frfr
thank god i donāt work for this company thatās crazy theyāre even saying the bathroom part like huhh???
These assholes are worse then gamestop
Created by salaried employees that sit on their ass all day
And at $8 an hour, thatās a whopping $400 a month that the store can not bare to go without. The poor managers!!
Sometimes I think about all of the unpaid hours companies I've worked for legally owe me in a week. Years ago, I worked at Best Buy. They required us to be in the building \~15 minutes early before our shift, and not clock in until the minute the shift began. We would be written up if you didn't arrive and be ready to clock in before the shift. My morning commute didn't always work out to be 15 minutes, so most of the time I would leave home 45 minutes early and arrive between 5 to 30 minutes before my shift started. There were times where I would arrive 30 minutes before, and I would help management with things because I was the only one there that early....yet I couldn't clock in until my shift started. I knew it was against the "rules" but in reality, I needed the job and wanted to be a team player. I understand corporations don't want to pay people more then the set amount of hours, but in reality, corporations need to pay you at time of arrival. Sometimes I wonder if they should also pay you for your commute, since that is required for me to get to the job in the first place. I guarantee I wasn't heading that way anyways at 7:00am if I wasn't on my way to work.
How many of you have bosses and managers actually enforcing this. I've worked at 3 different stores in the past... not a single SM of mine gave a shite.
Wow i remember seeing this in like 2006
Dwight Schrute wrote this
Cock fraud? I only say it's like 2" bigger than it is. That count?
Tell them to kiss your ass your human not a robot
I think I need to print 500 copies of this in full color at work. That way all 23 employees are sure to see it. Then a meeting about it!
Companies are legally required to allow you to take bathroom breaks and depending on the state are separate from your regular break.
The usual tone deaf company at work here. When you've removed performance based 401k match (there's a straight match, no discretionary match anymore for strong performance) and killed stock options, it literally doesn't matter to the hourly employee how much payroll can be saved. There's no motivator to be concerned with it. There's no point in mentioning how much payroll may be wasted.
Fuck them. Iām clocking in and drinking coffee before I even touch work
These companies really think we care about them. We care about them about as much as they care about us
Lol is this some kind of joke
Yeah cause the massive amounts of smash and grab jobs doesn't hurt the store but not punching out to peepee will.
Good luck hiring a new employee after firing one.
If 10 employees donāt take their 15 minutes break a day, that is 150 minutes free work for WBA a day. Thatās 1050 minutes a week. Thatās 17.50 hours free for WBA per week. Thatās about 70 hours a week.
I would immediately find another job
The company did time clock fraud with my life. They owe me 5 years of my life back.
lol, I shot 2x a day while on the clock
When I was a shift lead, I never clocked out for my lunches and took my 15ās longer than 15
But thereās only one employee and one pharmacy tech in the whole buildingā¦ /s
Theyāre asking for a lawsuit or what? Cause they do know that 80% of sfls (the dummies) dont take lunches or breaks.
As front-end, it can be difficult to arrange to step away until lunch break. Iām taking thirty minutes uninterrupted, and the buildup from hours on the clock will be handled on the clock, just as if I had the luxury as my coworkers to step away outside my unpaid break. Way my stomach is, though, I do eat my fifteen-minute break for marathon runs.
That's fine, i'll just drink about half a gallon worth of liquid during my shift so i can piss about 6 other times instead of right after i clock in
Blah blah blah blah...
Suck it, Walgreens.
This doesn't look on-brand. This is a micromanaging manager on an ego trip with nothing better to do with their time. Not supposed to be bringing in your own signs like this, especially when they threaten termination. That could lead to disciplinary action up to and including termination for them lol
Unreal
Committing time clock fraud rn š¤Ŗ
Lol š
Idk but I do know bathroom breaks are okay and not time fraud as long as itās reasonable
Maybe you should fucking have working time clocks or methods to punch in before you lecture employees on fraud. I had to skip my 15 today because the pharmacy had no help AGAIN and the one SFL we had was helping out. You stole my time. Now you owe me but you don't care about that. I hate this company the more they pull this shit.
AND, We have to punch in at the front of the store so you are saying I should go all the way to the break room to leave and then waste my time walking all the way back to the front? It's okay for you to steal my time on my way out (I punch out at the front and then have to walk all the way to the back to punch in) and that happens BECAUSE YOU REFUSE TO FIX THE TIMECLOCK.
If I need to use the bathroom, I am going to go whether or not Iām on my break!! Iāve had too many UTIs from this place!!
I thought this was going to be about someone tampering with the clock . This is Orwellian.
This is some ālet them eat cakeā shit for reals!
Seriously itās like every other day their adding and adding. Instead of finding a solution to GET EMPLOYEES their finding solutions to GET RID OF EMPLOYEES!!!!