sounds like a micro- manager...riding your butt for no good reason. pull them aside and have a conversation about this, if they give you a hard time then they just have their head up there arse! # powertripping!

I used to work for the EXACT SAME people!

Just do it on time and you'll be fine

A lot of companies will reprimand you for this. Just be on time. It's not that difficult.

Sounds like someone's out to get you.

Sounds like you work at Captel. I had that too when I worked there.

Way back in the day, I was a manager at a grocery store. Company policy called for clocking out for at least 30 minutes for lunch for shifts longer than 5 hours. It was all computerized, and one of my jobs was to monitor it and make corrections, if needed. There was a dairy manager who would constantly take 20-25 minute lunches, no matter how many he times he was told to clock out for 30. I worked a different shift, so I rarely saw him. The store manager eventually wrote him up for it, and it stopped. Late a few minutes back? Who cares?

Maybe you should just try being in time...

You get punished for making a shorter brake? How messed up is this? In Germany employment law requires a 30-minute break for 8 hours of work. And since I am a nurse my break often just does not happen. Does that mean I am a bad employee? Luchbreak-facism, wow...

Try clocking in RIGHT when the time signals the given amount (not too early or late, right on spot) and see what happens.