Worker refuses to arrive an hour early to shift despite coworkers' demands, insists on clocking in and out right on time: ‘They complain that I come in late’

If your shift starts at 8:00 AM, what time should you be at work, ready to clock in?

Any time before 7:45 AM is the wrong answer, especially if you’re not getting paid for being there earlier. The concept of dividing employees into shifts exists for a reason, and each workplace knows what they’re doing when they set a time to clock in and clock out of every shift. It’s all part of a well-oiled machine that you should not mess with.

The coworkers in the story below, however, are currently messing with the shift system, and they are trying to drag the entire team along with them.

Their workplace has two shifts in place: from 6 PM to 6 AM, and from 6 AM to 6 PM. Employees should arrive at work 15 minutes before their shift starts to allow a proper handoff, and to let the employees who worked before log off on time. That worked well enough until a few employees started showing up to work at 5 AM, a whole hour before their shift was supposed to start.

According to these few employees, if everyone arrives at work an hour early to relieve the current shift before their shift ends, everyone can leave work earlier than intended, which makes everyone happy. 

Well, everyone except one employee, who doesn’t want to go on board this new system. This employee doesn’t want their shifts to change to 5 PM to 5 AM, and they don’t think they should be obliged to come an hour early to shift just because their coworkers do.

So, while everyone else arrives at work an hour earlier, this employee sticks to the original schedule, which makes the coworkers mad…