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Dippy, in Mandatory security check followed by a long travel to area of work. When do you clock in?

Contact HR. Ask for clarity. They won’t want a potential class action on their hands depending on the size of the company/state law.

If not satisfied with the answer, contact the state board of labor. They should be able to give better answers then random internet strangers.

cynar,

Just remember that HR serves the company, not the employees. You want to phrase things so that you aren’t seen as the primary problem. It’s you and the company Vs the potential problem (in this case, the manager’s policy), not you Vs the company.

kevinbacon, in What's your favorite thing to dream about?
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Teeth falling out

Shieldtoad,

It said favorite dream, not worst nightmare.

HangingFruit, (edited )

Long time ago, someone told me that it means that someone will die or actually did. Few years after that, I had that dream. Family member died.

Had the same dream two more times, same result.

It was always me, pulling my own teeth, one by one.

Edit: They died when I was asleep. Not after during the day.

MicrowavedTea, in What's your favorite thing to dream about?

Dreams that feel like a creation

  • Moving through some amazing scenery (waterfalls and the sea always look great) and knowing this is all part of your imagination.
  • Trying food with really weird flavors that still taste great. I don’t like food that much in real life.
  • A specific type of dream where you experience the plot in 1st person but there is also a voice over that you kinda control, in the style of a book. It’s a bit weird but became much more frequent after I started reading more. Anybody else get this?
Delphia, in Mandatory security check followed by a long travel to area of work. When do you clock in?

I have a friend who works at a chain fast food restaraunt in an airport. Employees at the airport locations get $2 an hour more than regular stores to compensate for the “off the clock mandatory site requirements”

Decoy321, (edited ) in Mandatory security check followed by a long travel to area of work. When do you clock in?

The line here is always arbitrarily set, so you’d want to look up what it is at your specific company. At what point does your personal commute to work end and your work begins? Does it start once you sit in your chair? Step into your office? Walk through the door? How about once you park your car? If you’re available by phone, you can start working your day while in transit. Working from home blurs that distinction further. It’s all arbitrary and usually outlined as a company policy.

For example, my last company’s policy was “be onsite to punch in at a terminal by XX.” The previous company’s were basically “who gives a shit, we’re never gonna check. If not being present on time causes any problems, it’s on you to fix them. Be an adult.”

So yeah, your mileage may vary.

Nollij,

If you’re hourly, you must be on the clock the moment you answer the call, or open your work laptop, etc.

If you’re salary exempt, it’s more about expectations than paid time anyway.

Zak,
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The line here is always arbitrarily set, so you’d want to look up what it is at your specific company.

There are very likely laws defining where that line can be set, as Dippy’s comment suggests. It is very likely that the employer is legally obligated to pay an hourly employee for any time they require that employee to be on site, which would include employer-mandated security checks.

criticon,

You just reminded me of my first job (call center)

My shift officially started when I logged in and set my terminal to “available”

Problem was that the parking lot was very small so sometimes I had to wait for someone to leave to be able to park, then try to find an open computer close to my area and then sometimes said computer took a long time to log off/on so by the time I could set my terminal I was already “late”

My first manager was great and I would send him an SMS as soon as I walked to the building and he would override the system if I logged in late, but my second manager told me to arrive half an hour early to avoid any issues. I quit that job shortly after that

grue,

Deciding how much wage theft to do is not valid “company policy.” The law is not arbitrary.

mogul, in What's your favorite thing to dream about?

Tiddies and flying. I’m a simple man.

sbv,

What about flying tiddies?

mogul,

I haven’t yet but maybe tonight now that it’s in my head.

NeoNachtwaechter, in Mandatory security check followed by a long travel to area of work. When do you clock in?

As soon as you are doing the things that your company has ordered, you are working.

This includes enduring the security check.

bostonbananarama,

2014 unanimous Supreme Court case says that they do not need to be paid. State law may require otherwise though. Believe there was a PA case recently that ruled they did need to be paid.

effward,
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Wouldn’t that definition also include time spent commuting?

bluGill,

Sometimes. Generally the.company doesn't order you to live where you do. If you want paid commuting time they will tell you to move next door so your time is 1 minute (that zoning doesn't allow this or someone else lives there isn't their problem ).

If you are told to travel from one office to another though you should be paid for your time. If they transfer your office they may owe you moving expenses so your commute isn't too long '

Trainguyrom,

If you are told to travel from one office to another though you should be paid for your time

This is actually law in the 'states. If you need to travel further than your normal commute you are paid for your travel time from your normal location to the new one and if you drive your milage is paid at a rate of 67¢/mile off the top of my head. I worked IT at a rural bank for a while and had to expense my milage pretty often as I went to branches 30-50 miles away to swap computers and whatnot

NeoNachtwaechter,

Good question. Generally No.

Your duty to come to work is part of your work contract. But not the question where you come from, or where you go after work. That’s your decision and your private time.

If it is different, for example if they order you where to live, then that must be compensated.

Bobo, in What's your favorite thing to dream about?

I hardly remember my dreams and when I do (which is usually if it has been interesting) I generally wake at some crucial point which is very annoying.

Nemo, (edited ) in What's your favorite thing to dream about?

Exploring. Sprawling woods, giant mansions, stairways leading down from basements or subways. With or without chasing a mysterious figure or a mysterious figure chasing me.

DashboTreeFrog, in What's your favorite thing to dream about?

I love having really bizarre dreams, the weirder the better.

I had a dream where I was some kinda high ranking engineer on a super weird interstellar craft designed by my partner, and during the dream I was vividly remembering other missions I had been on, and that’s what really stuck with me when I woke up, the fact that I had memories of a past that didn’t exist, and somehow upon waking, those memories stuck stronger than the proper dream portions. This was at a time where I was dream journalling so reading back I can recall a lot of details.

So yeah, I like my dreams weird.

PlutoniumAcid, in Have you ever come across some sort of container or organizer for anything that ended up being strangely useful?
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Gridfinity.

I’m new to 3D printing but Gridfinity is a game changer. Make your own storage, but this is made to fit into a standard grid, incredibly flexible and useful.

murvillian,

I agree to a certain extent, the idea behind it is pretty awesome. I printed a bunch of grids and organizing pieces a few weeks after the original video dropped, and was pretty impressed by how well most of it worked. The rub comes in with the model sites being fraught with “bad” models that people have tweaked to suit their printers or the hardware they want to use so not everything can be used right away. That kinda thing is hard to measure on screen, in a mesh, so makes a lot of wasted plastic/time.

CatZoomies, in Which books have the worst video adaptation?
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Especially the second movie, Sea of Monsters.

Thank goodness the TV show is coming in December. Rick Riordan, the author, has personally been overseeing the production. I have high confidence the tv series will be much closer to the books. Hopefully this will do well enough that future seasons will be funded and we’ll get seasons that adapt the rest of the books.

JSocial, in Have you ever come across some sort of container or organizer for anything that ended up being strangely useful?

Tiddlywiki. Simple in theory one you get your head around it. I live on a boat, and use it for inventory. Every item is entered, along with quantity and location so I can search and find where things are. Depending on the thing, additional information is stored as well. For food stuffs, nutrition info, brand, place I bought it, and price (useful going between countries). Recipes link to ingredients, so I can filter on what I have or what I need. For tech items, serial number, manuals, warranty information, and the like. And for certain items, checklists, or maintenance tasks, I link to the inventory item of my tools, so I know what I need and where to get it before starting a job.

For example, I have an entry for the outboard motor. I know that if I’m filling it with fuel, I need 2 stroke oil, gasoline, fuel filter. If I have to adjust the turning resistance, I know I’ll need a 10mm wrench. If I have to change the lower unit oil, I need a pump for oil, container for old oil, flathead screw driver for the plug, etc.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer,

Because of browser security I think TiddlyWiki has gotten a bit hard to use. 10 yrs ago I could write and update files without any security popups or cli flags or admin permissions.

JSocial,

Only in single file mode (meaning opening the HTML as a file:// URL, making changes, and saving it again). Hosting it on a server, desktop, or raspberry pi with node is ridiculously simple these days. It’s completely backwards compatible, but TW5 changed the architecture quite a bit. You can drop that 10 year old file into a blank node instance, and it comes out perfectly.

Mikina, (edited ) in Have you ever come across some sort of container or organizer for anything that ended up being strangely useful?

I’ve been recently introduced to Logseq, a journal/notes/knowledge management app that is based on networked knowledge (links,references and tags), instead of hierarchical (folder structure) knowledge management type, and it has been a gamechanger.

It has a pretty basic TODO features, but the way linking and references work is really smooth to work with. You get a dated journal page for each day, and can just randomly add blocks of notes that reference pages, topics or tags, and it gets automatically linked to the page you referenced. So if I open the page for a project, it contains content of every block that mentioned it, along with context, so you quickly get an overview.

The best feature is that you can also write queries, that fill the block with data you want, so I can for example create a block for a meeting, tag it with project, and write a query that lists notes from every other meeting tagged with the same project. Or I can have a query for every TODO item tagged with a project, to see them at one place.

The node graph feature is also nice, which visualises links between pages, so you can get an overview about related things, and it also has a Whiteboards and Flashcard features, just as it can do basic time trackings for blocks tagged as TODO.

It’s pretty intuitive to use, and so far it’s one of the first note-taking and knowledge management app that has managed to stick with me for longer than a week.

And a quick tip - if you decide to use it, check out how to setup an automatic git syncing, so you can sync your notes between devices without paying for the cloud sync feature.

fr_mg, in What's your favorite thing to dream about?

At first i thought it was about day dreaming…most of people do not remember most of their dreams, and nobody can choose the themes…Is real this question?

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