Being late for work will happen at some point in your career. You could sleep through your alarm by mistake, get stuck by a train, or have heavier traffic than expected.
With that comes potential penalties from your employer. Well, one TikToker has shared their tip for avoiding those penalties.
In the now-viral video, TikTok user Bri (@bslaxughter) reveals her strategy for being late to work without getting in trouble. In the videos overlaying text, Bri wrote,
“When I used to show up late to work & didn’t clock in purposely so I could wait till later in the shift to tell the manager to fix my time cause I ‘forgot to clock in and they fixed it to the time I was scheduled.”
In the caption, Bri continued, “This only works if your manager doesn’t watch you come in.”
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Some viewers applauded Bri for revealing her method, adding that they’ve also done this.
“I would do this all the time when I worked for McDonald’s lmao, or when I got there late and they knew, I would lie and say I was only 2 min late.”
“Never clock in always clock out if you running late,” advised another.
“Me not clocking back from my lunch so I can take as long as I want then I correct it,” added a third.
However, some said that doing this didn’t exactly work out the way they would have liked.
“My manager would just check the cameras to see when I actually walked in,” one commenter claimed.
“Dang my job is too smart. You get points for ‘forgetting to clock in,’” another said.
“I did this and got banned from working at Walmart/sams club,” alleged another.
“I did that when I worked at Wawa.. they caught on and I got let go,” one TikToker recounted.
“I use to do this until I did it too much and they checked the cameras and fired me,” echoed a commenter.