Big factories strictly check attendance and "drive crazy" Internet people

When it comes to clocking in at work, few professionals are not a headache.

Recently, several Internet companies have successively reported the adjustment of the attendance system. First, after New Year's Day, it was revealed that a large factory suddenly began to catch attendance, and it had to arrive at the company before 10 a.m., and the time for free taxi after work was changed from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. In February, another major factory also adjusted the working time to 9 a.m., no later than 10 a.m.

In fact, it is not only these two large factories that have adjusted the attendance system during this period. Shen Ran chatted with several Internet people who have only recently experienced strict attendance checks, and they have one thing in common, that is, they are in creative, often overtime positions, but they encounter increasingly strict attendance systems. In this contradiction, they feel troubled and overwhelmed.

In their stories, some people work flexibly, do their best, and their attendance becomes stricter, but they lose their motivation. Others use roundabout tactics, choosing to leave work on time when she often works overtime but also arrives at the company on time. Some people had to accept it out of helplessness, but they trembled because the company's leaders were so strict about attendance that they hung the "violations" in the group. There are also people who would rather not go to the toilet to run to the company at a speed of life and death, and even need face recognition to clock in on the subway.

The common perception of several respondents is that perfection at work is not contradictory to when you arrive at the company and when you leave the company. To measure an employee's work attitude and results, perhaps there should be only a few check-ins.

During work hours, chatting and picking up takeaway, surveillance videos were sent to the group by leaders

Xiao Yue|27 years old programmer in Shenzhen

Probably because the company's efficiency is not good, at the end of last year, the leaders of our department suddenly began to strictly grasp attendance.

Normally, we work from 9.30am to 6.30pm. Every afternoon, personnel will post in the group which people are late and have abnormal attendance, and every week will count who is late the most. When leaders remember, they ask by name why they are so late.

Although there will be no direct fine for being late, but the number of lateness, the performance will be beaten C, the monthly salary will be reduced by several hundred, and the time of tardiness needs to be made up with a transfer later. However, I often see many colleagues bring breakfast, stuck to work, eat breakfast while working, and usually enter the state after 10 o'clock.

One day at the end of last year, the leader strictly grasped attendance without warning, in addition to catching lateness, paying more attention to the work status of the whole day, directly throwing the company's monitoring videos and pictures to the work group, naming some colleagues to leave the office during working hours.

Among our colleagues, who are still eating breakfast after 9:30, going downstairs to get lunch before leaving work at noon, going downstairs to do nucleic acid during working hours, and chatting when they go to buy milk tea, these behaviors are warned by the leader in the work group surveillance video, although it will not be directly deducted, but it will feel very "social death".

Although I have never been late, nor have I been named by the monitor, during that time, I was also trembling, for fear that if I inadvertently moved, I would be sent to the work group as a typical violation of the law.

After strictly grasping attendance for more than a month, the leader also wrote these violations into regulations and issued them in the work group to explicitly prohibit them, and even launched a "realistic version of werewolf killing", encouraging colleagues to report violations to each other, and promising to give certain rewards after verification.

To be honest, I think it is understandable that the company puts forward these requirements without being late or leaving early, and concentrating on work during working hours, but the leaders and the company are more and more careful about these behaviors, which makes me feel strict and strange, very rigid and impersonal.

However, although our leaders are very rolled, they are all rolled up in form, often thunder and rain, and recently he has no longer been as crazy as at the end of last year, and I have not seen anyone punished for being reported, and the gust of wind just passed.

For the sake of the company atmosphere, I think that attendance should also be checked, but don't be too rigid, after all, everyone may encounter one or two accidents, and work for 8 hours, no one can be like a spinning top all the time. In addition, for employees who show up on time, it is best for the company to have some incentives to encourage them, so that employees are motivated to keep going.

I used to work overtime until one or two o'clock in the morning, but after strictly grasping attendance, I was rotten

Celery|32 years old product Beijing

When I joined this big factory, I was still in a flexible working mode. Generally, the default is 10:30 p.m. as the working time, and the end of work is 9 or 10 p.m. Occasionally the big leader comes and finds that there is no one in the department at 10:30, and he will emphasize attendance, but he will not implement it very seriously.

But at the end of last year, our company's attendance was greatly adjusted. Clock in at 10 a.m., otherwise even if you are late, you used to be reimbursed by taking a taxi from work at 9 p.m., but it was changed to after 10 p.m.

This bothers me a lot. I already had a lot of workload, often working overtime until 9:30 p.m., and after the taxi reimbursement time was adjusted, I had to wait until 10 p.m. to take a taxi, but it was the rush hour, and I didn't get home until about 12 p.m. during that time.

Clocking in in the morning is even more painful for me.

When I joined this company, I was looking for flexible work. Before the work time was 10:30, there was no clock-in limit, and I could basically get up close to 10 o'clock. But now, given the morning rush, I have to get up at 8:30 a.m., and I need seven or eight alarms a day to get me up.

In order to get more sleep while being accurate and not being late, I spent a lot of time testing. In the first few days, I started late, I was late, I was late, and then it was almost the New Year, there were fewer people, and the road was not blocked, and I actually arrived at the company at 9 o'clock once. Only later did I figure it out that I had to get a taxi at least 9 o'clock to make sure I wasn't late in the end.

I have also tried to take the subway, but the various transfers in between are physically demanding. The biggest purpose of choosing a taxi later is to catch up on sleep in the car. This is how I cope with changes in attendance.

I am a self-motivated employee who has requirements for myself. In the past, even if I came home from overtime, I would work at home until one or two o'clock in the morning for business, and last year's business grew rapidly. But now, the attendance system forces me to go to bed early, otherwise I can't get up early the next day to clock in, but my work content has not decreased, and many times I can't leave work early, so the cycle makes me more tired the next day.

After the change in the attendance system, I felt that the company had lost me, and my state was a little worse than before. Even when I was able to leave work at 7:30, I felt a lot more at ease. I used to arrive at the company after 10:30, and if I left early, I didn't feel good.

The purpose of the company's revision of attendance may be because there are too many employees touching fish. But what I feel is that colleagues who are usually not saturated with work leave work earlier, and since attendance frames the commuting time, they don't have to talk about how late they are. After all, serious people work seriously all the time, and people who row always have a way to paddle.

Strictly clocking in at work, never leaving work on time, and the length of work must be ranked

Yue Yue|32 years old, Beijing, Internet practitioner

I have been working in an Internet company, the first few companies are flexible working system, do not require clock-in, usually arrive at the company at 10 o'clock in the morning, leave work at seven or eight o'clock in the evening, work overtime until later when needed, and may not go the next morning.

Recently, I changed companies, and the attendance is strict, clocking in from 9:30 am to 7 pm, and the lunch break from 12:30 to 2 pm in between. Originally, there was no problem clocking in according to this commuting time, but the unreasonable thing was that work needed to be strictly clocked in, and there was almost no punctuality, everyone seemed to default to no closing time, often eight thirty or nine o'clock at night, and some people asked me for a meeting, the leaders were meeting during the day, and after 7 p.m. began to align with us, and there was no overtime pay or rest.

Another problem is that at the beginning of each month, the department leader will send the attendance information of the previous month to the group, which has a bar chart of the working hours of each group and everyone in the group. Our group was named by the leader because the average working time in the group was 8.5 hours at the bottom, and the average working time of other groups was 11 hours, in fact, 8.5 hours plus 1.5 hours at noon was also 10 hours in the company. This becomes that clocking in and attendance is almost a decoration, and everyone has to "roll" the working hours.

In order not to be late, when the subway just arrived at the station where the company was located, I quickly clocked in, and even took off my mask on the subway to hold my breath, and hurry up face recognition. However, I often wear glasses, wear no makeup, or wear a hat and cannot be accurately identified, and several times because the recognition is unsuccessful shows that I am late. I couldn't even take care of the "tuba" at home in the morning, and I held back until I punched the card and then rushed to the toilet in the subway. When I first came to the company, I often forgot to clock in after work, and sometimes I had already taken two or three stops on the subway back home, and then I went back to clock in.

If you're late, the system shows how many times you're late this month and how many minutes you've been late, but clocking in after 7 p.m. doesn't show how long overtime is.

Previously, the company found a group of people who cheated in the clock. I heard that these people used a software that could make their WiFi addresses become the company's addresses, and the company fired forty or fifty people on the spot after finding out.

The current situation is that during the noon period, everyone would rather rest and watch dramas than work, even if they don't have to work overtime at night, everyone will eat first at about 7 o'clock, and after eating, they may also swipe their mobile phones to watch the drama before leaving work, and some people go out to eat with friends at night and then run back to punch a card.

There is a colleague who is secretly called "Roll King" by everyone, he went at 9 o'clock in the morning, and left from 9 to 10 o'clock in the evening, brushing today's headlines, Tencent news and even the weather, and he sat there and others were embarrassed to leave.

Internet work is very flexible, I think a reasonable way of attendance should also be flexible, early to go early, late to late, we do not have the habit of lunch break lunch break time does not have to be so long, there is no need to count the length of work time sent to a large group, all of which only aggravate the involution.

I couldn't change the environment, I chose to change myself

Amy|27 years old Hangzhou short video industry

The nature of my job is that I am very busy when I am busy and can leave work on time when I am not busy, usually these two rhythms in a month. The company's required commuting time is from 10 o'clock to 19 o'clock, flexible 30 minutes, that is, clocking in before 10:30. There are two kinds of clock-in, online clock-in or fingerprint clock-in to the company, and you can punch one.

I can only guarantee this time when I am free. Because as long as I come to live, I can't leave work at 7 p.m., and if there is an editing task, it is common to spend the second half of the night. In this case, we can generally apply for overtime, and overtime can have corresponding leave for a certain period of time. However, overtime applications should begin after 19:30, for at least two hours. From this time, the reason is that there is a flexible half hour in the morning, so the default flexibility is half an hour after work. Sometimes I don't have to work that long shift, so I either sacrifice the transfer or sit for a long time.

Usually I work overtime at night, and I don't adjust the next day, because since it is overtime, it must be very busy during that time, but every time I have to arrive at the company before 10:30 in the morning, I am very miserable. We can be late twice a month, and we have to remember attendance if we have more, but the general number of times is used up early at the beginning of the month. I remember once I was about to be late, I spent dozens of taxis, and as a result, I was stuck in traffic, and I was still credited with attendance, double loss.

Before I was in order not to be remembered for attendance, I also had a "battle of wits and courage", put my iPhone 6 many years ago in the company to let my colleagues who arrived early to help me check in, I even did fingerprint punching glue with colleagues, there are many tutorials on the Internet, who came early who called, and then found that it was unstable, it was abandoned, or honestly get up early to clock in.

At the beginning of this year, we notified that we would no longer give flexible time and clock in on time at 10 o'clock. Thunderbolt on a sunny day, I don't even have the last half an hour of elasticity. I woke up more than half an hour earlier, and when I wasn't late, I would try to arrive around 10:20, but now my mental expectation has become 9:40.

What worries me the most is that after adjusting the attendance, I will encounter a particularly serious overtime the night before, and I will not have time to clock in before 10 o'clock the next day. Colleagues feel the same way, but we don't know who to give feedback to.

For creative jobs like ours, excessive on-the-job time is not ideal. Moreover, knowing that we are a group of people who often work overtime, and also follow the unified rest policy of the whole company, in fact, we ignore the different characteristics of each type of work.

However, my personality is that if you can't change the environment, you can change yourself. Since there is no flexible time to go to work, then I also have no flexible time to leave work. In the past, when I didn't have to work overtime, I would also sit symbolically for a while, and now I am too lazy to give face to anyone. I left at 7 o'clock and packed my bags at 6:50.

*The title image and the accompanying picture in the text are from Visual China. At the request of the interviewee, Satsuki, Celery, Yueyue, and Amy are pseudonyms.

Originally by Shenrancaijing, author | Wang Min, Li Qiuhan, Tang Yahua, Zou Shuai, editor | Zou Shuai