Boss Demands Employee Complies With Lunch Break Rule, Ends Up Making Them Way Less Efficient

Yeah, I rode along with the person who had the deposit a few times, which was borderline kosher. But it was also a state agency and he was a licensed and bonded law enforcement officer, with arrest authority and a loaded pistol, not just someone from the office on their way to Burger King.

What??? Reconciling the till at days end is risky enough, but letting you walk around with cash in yr pocket??? Something fishy there for sure

Man that sounds toxic. Business is a simple transaction. You hired me to do X, so I'll do X. If you want me to do X and Y then we can renegotiate my scope of responsibilities and with that a renegotiation of my pay.

Well someone else posted that they personally witnessed this exact thing happening at their old job. There was an employee who was robbed and MURDERED while handling employee cash and checks in their own personal vehicle and their company insurance didnt cover a penny of it nor did workers comp or anything cover the hospital bills or anything b4 the guy died etc so it does seem like there could be an issue. I'm sure there is PLENTY of opportunity to help out co workers and be a team without taking on a daily job of someone else for a long period of time that involves this level of risk and dealing with the entire days/weeks deposits for the company. Ive ALWAYS been told that money handling at jobs is super serious and only certain people should ever be touching the money. I got yelled at once just 4 making change 4 a customer when my shift hadnt started yet and it was like $5 cuz if the drawer was off it could cost someone their job and same goes if theres a missing check or other pro

I'm quite sure that if the shït hit the fan and your company would stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars because some employee screwed up, your loyalty would vanish into thin air if you could find a way to put the blame on the employee to get out of the situation unscathed. The company doesn't know what employees are doing or what extra chores they do for the company. They don't know and they don't care as long as everything works out fine for them. Once things go south, the first thing they do is damage control and if that means firing people, they will have the notifications printed and delivered in a heartbeat.

The concept of teamwork is different based on your level in the company. At the top end it means everyone doing whatever it takes (OT, other jobs, etc.) to get the job done. On the low end it means mgmt. urging you to do things either beyond your purview or outside of regular scope/hours for little or no thanks beyond extra pay that doesn't always work out to be fair recompense. If you work at a place that has a salesforce it can be even worse, as most larger companies heap praise & rewards on Sales, even as they lie to clients leaving others to fix their messes - via teamwork...

Sorry, but I wonder how many people are sitting in prison who would argue with you?

Until one of those deposits comes up short!!! I understand teamwork, but you DO NOT WORK ON SOMEBODY'S REGISTER OR TAKE SOMEBODY'S DEPOSIT ANYWHERE. That is common sense.

Pan K, thanks for your comments. Very enlightening and true. I am retired now but was a director of an international corporation. I discovered most people didn't really understand the concept of teamwork, even though they thought they did. I had numerous employees who thought they were the greatest performers because all they did was their job, didnt go beyond to help anyone on the team and expected to be compensated as such. If someone wants to say in their corner and just do "their job" only, management will view them that way. It maybe why they are passed over for promotions. For managers were honest, initiative would be high on their list. I wasn't sure about the money liability, so thanks for explaining. That was my only concern over the situation. As for the manager, I wonder about their skills.

But it's still not malicious compliance. His boss would want this in case he tried to sue for unpaid wages/mileage. If he got robbed on personal time. Car accident on personal time. It's an unlikely but highly possible workman's compensation claim. Using the work vehicle and being on the clock would have both the vehicle covered and money as well. It's a sad example of heck peeing paved with good intentions

Malicious compliance is doing the thing they said in a way that covers your ass but still shows the boss that they were wrong for requesting the change. This? This ain't it.

It's not malicious, it's just not as stupidly dumb

No, it's just another fabricated story like so many others on the internet. Unfortunately, most people just ignore the red flags and believe what they read.

What on earth are you talking about? Are you replying to my comment, or are you drunk? Your comment makes no sense.