PASV Income: January 2018

I just started taking over the bookkeeping at my job and I was working on payroll today when I noticed that some of the hours I had entered for last week had been changed since then. I knew that my boss had previously been rounding clock in/clock out times in order to "make it easier for bookkeeping." When I found out he was doing this a couple weeks ago, I explained to him that there was no need to do it and that with our software it actually was just a waste of his time and did not make anything easier. At this point, I was assuming he was always rounding in the employees' favor, so I wasn't particularly concerned, just thought I would let him know it wasn't necessary. As I started to examine the clock in/clock out times, I realized that they weren't really being rounded in the employees' favor. Time wasn't necessarily being taken away, but it seemed fairly common that over the course of a week increments of hours would disappear from employees' time sheets. For example, I noticed that every clock in time was changed to 8:30, even though most people commonly arrived 7-10 minutes early for their shifts because our boss stresses the importance of being early.I decided to give my boss a call to let him know he really didn't need to edit times and find out why he still was. His response was that he was changing it to the time the employee's shift started because employees shouldn't be clocking in early. I was pretty shocked by this response because not only have we never had a policy in place that told us not to get there early, we also had been under the impression that it was expected that we were always a little early to our shifts since his mantra is "if you're not 10 minutes early, you're late." I explained to him that I was under the impression we were supposed to show up a little early and that when I show up I clock in and start working immediately, so I thought I was getting paid for all of that time. Then out of nowhere he brought up the fact that I was a few minutes late to work the other day (despite having communicated about this with a different manager). He then asked what he should do about that. Of course I said that he shouldn't round down the time and give anyone any hours that they didn't work. He went on to ask if people who are late should be written up or disciplined, which was completely off topic from bookkeeping and felt like an avoidance tactic and a way to throw me off and make me uncomfortable. I basically told him that was a management decision that he should make but that he shouldn't pay them for time they weren't on the clock. The conversation ended with an agreement to put policies in place about clock in times, but it seemed to end on a very tense note as I felt we had both become defensive at that point (him about changing hours and me about being late which I hadn't expected would be an issue, let alone brought up in this conversation).So now I am sitting here frustrated by what I felt was petty, immature, defensive behavior on his part, but also wondering if I handled it poorly. I also don't know how to handle going back to work and seeing him in person. Whether he pulls me into his office to discipline me or apologize, I feel nervous for our next interaction. via /r/business http://ift.tt/2ntCehC

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

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