Annoying New Human Resources Guy Started Cutting Points For Being Late, So An Employee Simply Skipped Work On The Day He Was Running Late
by Sarrah Murtaza
Every new person joining an office at an authoritative position wants to change things around to show they deserve to be the boss.
But sometimes that can go extremely wrong.
Most of the time, probably.
Find out this guy’s new HR employee messed up the attendance system.
Don’t be late.
Worked for a manufacturing shop when I was younger.
Company wanted to bring in some new HR guy to change things around as we basically had no rules.
This is where it gets bad.
One of his rules was a point system for attendance.
Being late counted the same as calling in and was counted as 1 point.
My vehicles gas gauge was broken and I had to estimate how many miles I could make, depending on how much money I put in my tank.
UH OH…
One night on the way to work I ran out of gas, called a buddy to bring me a gas tank with a few gallons.
Got the car going again and I pulled in at 11:05pm so I called my manager and said “hey I’m in the parking lot but I’m late, I think I’m going to go home I have PTO to cover my shift.”
He made a smart move…
My manager agreed as we both thought the rule was uncalled for.
Two mornings later I get called into the office and yelled at about calling in when I knew how important those parts were and how were now behind for the week.
Things got better finally…
When asked why I called in I simply told them I drove past the shop at 11:05 and their rule made it where I was taking a point regardless so I might as well enjoy my night off.
Needles to say the rule was changed shortly after that.
That HR guy clearly didn’t see that coming!
Let’s find out what folks on Reddit think about this one.
This user knows these HR people are very incompetent.
This user shares how attendance worked at their high school.
This user simply hates point systems!
This guy knows why HR people do such things.
This user shares how their old employers used to work with attendance.
Yikes!
If only this HR guy hadn’t made this horrible rule, people wouldn’t have been hating on him like that!
If you liked that post, check out this one about an employee that got revenge on HR when they refused to reimburse his travel.

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