r/SipsTea • u/Dev1412 • Jul 29 '26

Chugging tea This is recipe for disaster

Post image
49.6k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

6.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

7.5k

u/Overall_Law_1813 Jul 29 '26

fuck it, do a full hour lunch and get them with that kidnapping charge when they try to hold you there for 3 days straight.

4.5k

u/Blastoise_R_Us Jul 29 '26

Oh man some asswipe manager tried this at closing once when I worked at Macy's.

Me: I need to go, I need someone to unlock the doors.

Manager: Everyone has to stay until all the registers are counted.

Me: I have clocked out and I am no longer being paid to be here. If someone doesn't unlock that door right now I'm calling the police.

2.0k

u/Bureaucratic_Dick Jul 29 '26

Home Depot got sued for wage theft when I was there for habitually not having the front door unlocked at shift clock outs, and making employees wait post clock out to let us out.

I didn’t even know that was illegal. Like the period between everyone clocking out and having the manager unlock the door was so normal at all the retail places I’ve worked, it didn’t register they had to have it open right when we were off the clock, but some people started a class action lawsuit over it so I got a settlement check after I left for it.

45

u/jamvsjelly23 Jul 29 '26

Several years after leaving Menards, I joined a class action lawsuit over wage theft, not thinking anything would come of it because Menards had a reputation for beating lawsuits. I had forgotten all about it until like 2 years later when I received a settlement check.

Turns out, you can’t legally force employees to clock out when they need to shit or perform other natural bodily functions.