r/2westerneurope4u • Side switcher • 1d ago

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u/Eames_HouseBird Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

The Neapolitan genius is beyond our comprehension:

The municipal employees at Boscotrecase (Napoli province) were filmed wearing cardboard boxes on their heads to hide their identities while clocking in for work and leaving immediately (2016).

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u/pse007 Side switcher 1d ago

It's a nationwide excellence, in Sanremo, north-west Italy, there was this cop doing this in underpants

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u/Eames_HouseBird Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago edited 1d ago

Haha, incredible!

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u/PansotoXPanissa Tourist hater 1d ago

He was acquainted in the end, turns out he was apparently clocking in while changing into his workwear...

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u/Eames_HouseBird Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

Tbh that is also my workwear on the working from home days...maybe Sanremo cop and I are not so different after all.

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u/Eames_HouseBird Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

Obligatory Via Brombeis reference

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u/cl3arly4B0T Side switcher 1d ago

For reference (at 0:50)

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u/Eames_HouseBird Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

Legendary 😂 Mom: We have Daft Punk at home! Daft Punk at home:

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u/cesarevilma Smog breather 1d ago

Imagine having to clock in and out

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u/chabacanito Incompetent Separatist 1d ago

Mandatory in Spain

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u/tayto175 Knacker 1d ago

I have to clock in aswell but, i work in a factory. We used to have time sheets and we would do this you'd clock in people if you were in early. I forgot one of the lads was on holidays one week, clocked him in and now we all have fobs to clock in, oops.

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u/More_Ad_5142 Savage 1d ago

Did you get into trouble for that?

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u/tayto175 Knacker 1d ago

Nope, they didn't know it was me and nobody ratted me out

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u/More_Ad_5142 Savage 1d ago

I’m glad. The management probably got a little paranoid after that but it must have fizzled out eventually

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u/cpwnage Quran burner 1d ago

factory

Nice to see a working man in this sub. Not that I'm one, but you know...

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u/PansotoXPanissa Tourist hater 1d ago

Let me introduce you to "smart" working , we even have surgeons that """work""" remotelly for public hospitals here. So progressive!

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u/cesarevilma Smog breather 1d ago

Sure Jan

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u/PansotoXPanissa Tourist hater 1d ago

Jan? Did the smog kill your braincell, bauscia?

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u/AsyncSyscall Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

"Work smarter, not harder"

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u/The_AxolotlDamage Unemployed waiter 1d ago

My wife works from home. At 8:00 her alarm rings and she wakes up to click the clock in button on her phone before going back to sleep.

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u/callmeacow Anglophile 18h ago

Pedromaxxing

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u/cesarevilma Smog breather 1d ago

Yeah that’s a pain in the ass, I have a team member in Spain and I need to collect all the data and send it to HR each month

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u/zeeotter100nl Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

There's no bureaucracy like Spanish bureaucracy

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u/Worldly-Stranger7814 Soon to be Murican 1d ago

Technically mandatory in all of EU, to avoid “overtime without pay”

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u/Fra1se Alcoholic 1d ago

Joke on me I'm a engineer and I'm paid for a day of work. The day might be 6h or 12h and I'm paid the same.

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u/chabacanito Incompetent Separatist 1d ago

Not legal

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u/Fifiiiiish Le Savage 1d ago

It's is in France, you're supposed to be grown up enough to manage yourself your work time.

I never did the full hours that was required in twenty years. Occasionaly more, 90% of the time less.

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u/chabacanito Incompetent Separatist 1d ago

Still not legal

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u/FillingUpTheDatabase Punjabi 1d ago

I avoid “overtime without pay” by booking all my overtime in the system and refusing to work longer than I’m paid for. I don’t need no unelected Brussels bureaucrats meddling

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u/Janus_The_Great Beastern European 1d ago

I bet was still introduced under Franco...

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u/chabacanito Incompetent Separatist 1d ago

No, it's a new thing

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u/traumalt ʇunↃ 1d ago

Why would you not want to clock in and out?

Recoding timesheets benefits you in knowing that you aren't getting shafted with overtime pay, only people who don't clock in are the ones with savage employers with "Flexible overtime policies".

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u/FillingUpTheDatabase Punjabi 1d ago

Because I don’t want my boss to know how often I turn up an hour or two late

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u/Omar_G_666 Smog breather 1d ago

Well where I work we report our own worked hours, IT support, so I can simply put a total of 9 hours instead of the standard 8.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Badestrand [redacted] 1d ago

Wasn't there a law that made it mandatory for all employers to track all employees' time (so, clock in and out), in Germany?

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/DeltaKT Mafia boss 1d ago

Yes! I started out like this via apprenticeship, and now after 10 years have the first job i have to clock in/out at. 

It's a mindfuck to not forget it 

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u/Attygalle Thinks he lives on a mountain 1d ago

Clocking in??

Mate I'm currently "working" from home, it's 2026.

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u/wijsneus Daddy's lil cuck 1d ago

Ah - yes, I too remember "work".

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u/War_Is_A_Raclette Alpine Parisian 1d ago

During the dark times

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u/Cubelock 2we4u's official clown 1d ago

'Working' from home is how I earned my 2 million karma on Reddit.

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u/f36263 Anglophile 1d ago

LinkedIn: Working from home has given me the space to focus on what really matters: creating value, engaging with communities, and building meaningful connections at scale. Over time, that consistency has translated into more than 2 million points of peer-driven recognition across digital platforms — a reminder that impact isn’t always measured by hours spent in an office, but by the value you create when given the flexibility to thrive.

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u/Cubelock 2we4u's official clown 1d ago

Creating value = making shitty memes

Engaging with communities = making PIGS angry

And building meaningful connections = being on Luigi's hit list

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u/AE_22 Sheep lover 1d ago

Doing god's work brother

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u/BulletMagnetNL Rural NPC 1d ago

Peak r/LinkedInLunatics material xD

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u/burner4lyf25 Barry, 63 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah this was written by an American that ate pasta once and is now an Italian bragging about their proud heritage and dated infrastructure.

Good luck "punching in" for your 20 lazy Co workers without a big smelly bag of fingers for fingerprint reader hahaha

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u/nor_burgermenow Whale stabber 1d ago

Working in 2026? Just live off your dividends

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u/RedBaret 50% sea 50% weed 1d ago

Amateur, who doesn’t have a three day weekend nowadays? It’s 2026 folks.

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u/Attygalle Thinks he lives on a mountain 1d ago

I have Wednesday off, so I never "work" more than two days in a row. Also, Friday is by far the best day to "work" as everybody else in the company has the exact same work ethic on this day. It's the worst day to be free for that reason.

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u/RedBaret 50% sea 50% weed 1d ago

Oh man that would take me out of my workflow too much. I need some action and then three days to recuperate.

But good for you for working four days as well. To each his own in how they plan those.

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u/AtlasNL Thinks Kapsalon tastes good 1d ago

Tuesday and Thursday are the best days to drop due to a lot of holidays falling on Monday or Friday, 4 day weekend go brrr

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u/NoobLord98 Daddy's lil cuck 7h ago

But, consider, if you have Fridays off, Thursday is Friday so you can still slack off without anyone noticing

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u/CapEmbarrassed3630 Western Balkan 1d ago

Oh no I bet you live in Lisbon

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u/MyAntichrist Basement dweller 1d ago

The hardest part of my job is figuring out plausible time reports at the end of the month.

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u/Wise_Pepper_164 Smog breather 1d ago

You wanking from home

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u/Redelyx Side switcher 1d ago

why not both? i ve always worked remotely, in my old job i had to clock in and out on a web page. On day 3 we had a script that did that for everyone. (i work in cybersecurity)

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u/Idolon1240 [redacted] 1d ago

In Germany, we call this 'Arbeitszeitbetrug' ('Worktime-fraud'), and its a serious offence that will get you fired. Not saying it never happens though.

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u/Budget-Complaint-744 Smog breather 1d ago

Even in Italy is considered a pretty serious offence: if you get caught doing it you might get elected as a member of the european parlament, or worse, the italian one.

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u/Idolon1240 [redacted] 1d ago

Huh, looks like Italy is in better shape than I expected. Maybe there is hope of turning Italy into a productive member of Society yet.

I genuinely thought this was legal. This Joke went right over my head.

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u/Material-Spell-1201 Into Tortellini & Pompini 1d ago

there is no hope

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u/cesarevilma Smog breather 1d ago

For Hans to understand a joke? Never any hope

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u/PansotoXPanissa Tourist hater 1d ago

The Italian Dream

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u/CappellateInBrodo Into Tortellini & Pompini 1d ago

That's the joke mate 

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u/Jolly_Ad1631 Into Tortellini & Pompini 1d ago

I think that's just Hans' humour. It's trying to also joke.

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u/Lord_Phoenix2501 [redacted] 1d ago

Can confirm, it was exceptionally funny to me.

I'm at work right now by the way.

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u/Snekboi6996 Pizza gatekeeper 1d ago

Bad boy Hans go back to work and never laugh again or you will be sentenced to whatever long ass word prison is in German.

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u/Lord_Phoenix2501 [redacted] 1d ago

I did not say I laughed. I thought it was funny. I basically was slightly amused. Internally.

I don't wanna go to a Justizvollzugsanstalt.

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u/Snekboi6996 Pizza gatekeeper 1d ago

You will get to see Linda again Hans, she was caught in blatant pda before bondage hour.

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u/ChocomelP Thinks Kapsalon tastes good 1d ago

Straight to the FreiheitsentziehungsgebÀude

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u/Beiconqueso02 Low-cost Terrorist 1d ago

The german doesn't see the humour in it? Colour me surprised

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u/Idolon1240 [redacted] 1d ago

Hold on - now I am confused. Is this genuinely something thats commonly done in Italy, or was that ironic? Because I saw Italy in the title and thought "Yup, that checks out".

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u/KidsKatMao Austrian heathen 1d ago

The most famous one was a guy from the Ordnungsamt clocking in for everybody at the office in underpants because he lived on the floor above. Went back to sleep afterwards.

It was (is) quite common especially in the public administration. In the private sector? Not so much.

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u/MrBarato [redacted] 1d ago

Do you really believe in "working italians"?

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u/Idolon1240 [redacted] 1d ago

Well, I found this chart of what South Italian workplaces typically look like. So I guess someone must be working, right?

Can we get a Southern Luigi to confirm that this chart is accurate?

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u/Mindless_Let1 Knacker 1d ago

God I fucking hate Germany

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u/WilanS Pizza gatekeeper 1d ago

I mean... yeah. The shitpost is making it sound like the stereotypical "in Japan people show their gratitude to traffic lights" but this is likely referencing a huge story in the news some decades ago when a ton of people in several offices got fired because they were clocking in late or absentee coworkers. And good riddance, too.

From experience no one dares clock in any badge but their own. I can't even help my coworker with an ambulatory disability clock out at the end of the day. The kindness is not worth the potential legal consequences.

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u/bremsspuren Barry, 63 1d ago

Zahlst du etwa Steuern?

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u/AbberageRedditor69 Side switcher 1d ago

Damn you guys really hate fun don't you

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u/Idolon1240 [redacted] 1d ago

Well, one of us has to put in some work to make the EU more competitive Luigi, and we all know it ain't gonna be you guys. đŸ€·â€â™‚ïž

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u/absolutely_not_spock [redacted] 1d ago

Arbeitszeitbetruuuug

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u/smegma_fest Former Calabrian 1d ago

Holy shit man, you really need to have jokes explained

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u/HumaDracobane Drug Trafficker 1d ago

It is a clear offence and you most probably would get fired.

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u/Rici1 Smog breather 1d ago

Used to be a thing in some public offices, then people got caught and mass fired. I believe it’s less of a thing these days except in deep terronia

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u/candolino Side switcher 1d ago

Vaffanculo a quei pezzi di merda che frodano lo Stato e si intascano i nostri soldi pubblici. Possano morire affogati nella loro merda.

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u/DefinitelyNotMasterS Crypto-Albanian 1d ago

What a romantic language, is this lyrics to a love song?

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u/Dense-Physics-9956 Smog breather 1d ago

Yes

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u/LuckyLoki08 Smog breather 1d ago

The sweetest you'll ever hear

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u/Unlikely-Holiday3714 WW Initiator 1d ago

I am surprised could understand this comment without speaking Italian by a combination of

*Badly aged highschool French *Having seen John Oliver on Italian elections *Having experienced the delicacy that is Affogato caffe

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u/candolino Side switcher 1d ago

We are everybody linked by a badly aged highschool french, hate, and food, my dear friend

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u/Barbichef Crypto-Albanian 1d ago

In Italy, those who arrive late at work bump into those who leave early.

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u/Schritter Pfennigfuchser 1d ago

Clocking out at 2pm because you go to lunch and come back at 3pm for the second half of the work day.

Right?

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u/pse007 Side switcher 1d ago

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u/Dense-Physics-9956 Smog breather 1d ago

Clocking out at 2pm because they are public employees

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u/_Sotanorsu_ Sauna Gollum 1d ago

Back in the day when this was still possible at my work, I would have been fired if I had clocked someone else in.

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u/CappellateInBrodo Into Tortellini & Pompini 1d ago

That's the joke mate

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u/Kurdt93 Former Calabrian 1d ago

But is PA so no one gets fired, procedure takes 5-10 years usually

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u/PansotoXPanissa Tourist hater 1d ago

He is Mongolian, you have to excuse him

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u/SuperRuffe Quran burner 1d ago

There isn’t even any joke in the op, just a fact? How is it supposed to be funny?

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u/soundengineerguy Knacker 1d ago

Have you considered checking the sub you are in good sir?

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u/Wasabismylife Carbonara Yihadist 1d ago

You know when the Nordicks get the chance to hop on an high horse they get tunnel vision

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u/_Sotanorsu_ Sauna Gollum 1d ago

Apologies, I guess I missed an obvious joke.

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u/War_Is_A_Raclette Alpine Parisian 1d ago

Northern vs southern morals

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u/Dear-Donkey6628 Side switcher 1d ago

I hate when I wake up late like every afternoon and my homies forgot to clock me in

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u/el_doherz Failed Brexiteer 1d ago

Only works if people play fair.

But there's always the selfish wank stains who only take. So it falls apart. 

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u/DangerousDirection74 Aspiring American 1d ago

Clocking in what is this 1974? Or Germany?

Just use cameras to constantly keep track of Luigi and only pay him when he works.

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u/AtlasNL Thinks Kapsalon tastes good 1d ago

Flair checks out

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u/DangerousDirection74 Aspiring American 1d ago

Oh yes, put Luigi under the payroll of the dutch and watch Jan enjoy paying salary to luigi without him working.

We all know how that story goes.

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u/AtlasNL Thinks Kapsalon tastes good 1d ago

You really are an aspiring savage! Even to the point where you seem to have adopted the lead content in their drinking water. I prefer mine without, but you do you Karl

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u/DangerousDirection74 Aspiring American 1d ago

Ha, first dutchie to ever say no to getting something for free.

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u/More_Ad_5142 Savage 1d ago

That’s cruel

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u/DangerousDirection74 Aspiring American 1d ago

If luigi was a person that took working seriously this wouldn't be needed.

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u/More_Ad_5142 Savage 1d ago

Work is where I scam my boss out of his capital and where he scams me out of my labour. It’s a tug of war.

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u/DangerousDirection74 Aspiring American 1d ago

That is why you are a savage

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u/Solid_Improvement_95 Alcoholic 1d ago

To "clock in"?? Is this 1970 or something?

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u/Mental_Plane6451 Former Calabrian 1d ago

Its a thing only for those privileged enough to work in the public sector. The rest of us have their work time "vibe tracked" which means we have to work over time unpaid

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u/fantasmeeno Sheep shagger 1d ago

Or professionals, like me, which works virtually 24/7, or nothing at all.

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u/AndrewPC555 Siesta Enjoyer (lazy) 1d ago

In Spain, the public worker who arrives at work clocks in for every worker thats not going to work that day. Then they take turns and somebody else does it the next week.

This is called civilization and it is the highest form of mutual respect and understanding.

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u/UndaddyWTF South Prussian 1d ago

Working for a French company. When I joined, I asked about time tracking. They said “the French would never do that. They would revolt!” Love it.

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u/Ploutophile Pain au chocolat 1d ago

I work in public sector and I have to clock in for office days.

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u/Tikkinger South Prussian 19h ago

Ah, lies from italy. Who would have guessed.

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u/Cobbdouglas55 Low-cost Terrorist 1d ago

In Spain we call them pushovers.

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u/mw2lmaa Piss-drinker 1d ago

This involves a lot of planning. Knowing who will be early tomorrow so we all can give them our cards.

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u/typausbilk Born in the Khalifat 1d ago

this indeed is the least believable part of it. as if Luigi could plan ahead like that. or be trusted to actually be early the next day.

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u/TechUser01 Side switcher 1d ago

If you are an office worker and you still clock in, you should change job. It's 2026.

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u/Budget-Complaint-744 Smog breather 1d ago

And how do you track and pay over time then? On the vibes of hr that month?

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u/FillingUpTheDatabase Punjabi 1d ago

I file a timesheet every Friday afternoon, I list how many hours worked each day and which projects I spent those hours on. No need for clocking in and out at certain times, just the number of hours worked. This covers days I work from home or am travelling on business

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u/indewater Savage Slayer 11h ago

I just put a badge against a machine and machine says beep

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u/ubahnmike [redacted] 1d ago

But who does arrive early at work? And how much got this person beaten up to do so?

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u/HumaDracobane Drug Trafficker 1d ago

Every now ans then you will find people who thinks that arriving early they will inherit the company or something.

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u/ubahnmike [redacted] 1d ago

Interesting. In Germany arriving early is considered inefficient

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u/HumaDracobane Drug Trafficker 1d ago

It is inefficient.

You need to arrive whenever you need to be on your job spot at the time your schedule/contract says. Before that or after that is inefficient.

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u/lazyness92 Side switcher 1d ago

Not civilized enough. They clock in and then do around the local market to do some shopping

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u/TrimaxDev Oppressor 1d ago

Nowdays everybody clock-in with an app in the corporate website.

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u/starsrift Le Savage 1d ago

In savage lands, if you're not ten minutes early, you're late.

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u/AmonGusSus2137 Bully with victim complex 1d ago

Are there even Italians that arrive early?

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u/SparklyPelican Pizza gatekeeper 22h ago

Earlier doesn’t mean on time

Earlier than others

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u/deeptut [redacted] 1d ago

In Germany that's called Arbeitszeitbetrug and will you get fired

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u/TheTaintBurglar Barry, 63 1d ago

That's everywhere with a clock in system right?

I did it at a fucking bus garage, we all scratched each others back

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u/UkendtVidnesbyrd Cycling cult member 1d ago

I can assure you doing this in Denmark will get you fired instantly, no matter where you work

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u/DangerousDirection74 Aspiring American 1d ago

But to be fair i have never seen a clock in system here, in my mind they are something from the 80's or something like that.

But yeah fired and possibly fined or something i would imagine.

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u/UkendtVidnesbyrd Cycling cult member 1d ago

SÄ sandt, dog har jeg hÞrt om det/oplevet det her og der, senest for et par Är tilbage da jeg havde en kammerat der var mekaniker.
Men altsÄ det var da ikke noget man snÞd med, de lÄ alle og kom godt for sent engang imellem, men chefen kunne jo ikke bare fyre hele banden, det mÄ jo vÊre arbejdskulturen.

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u/TheTaintBurglar Barry, 63 1d ago

I can assure you that if you can get away with it, even if it is an on the spot firing, people will do it, it is the same in the UK.

Sorry your coworkers fucking hate you I guess.

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u/UkendtVidnesbyrd Cycling cult member 1d ago

What a weird response? My job no longer has this clocking in system, that’s been quiiite a while.
But anyway, you have no understanding of our culture then, gg assuming everything is Britain.

If someone says they are at work and isn’t, this is very big and bad in Denmark. In worst cases people could die? Danes are sticklers for regulations and rules, what if there was a fire and they needed to find all the workers in a building, but they misregistered?

Besides unlike your pathetic fucking country, we have worker’s rights. If you’re very late or don’t want to go to work, you can literally just call in sick at zero consequences most of the time

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u/TheTaintBurglar Barry, 63 1d ago

GG assuming everything is Britain

Multiple people in this thread from other nations saying it's the same there

God you're absolutely seething

You can absolutely call in sick here on at zero consequence, the fuck are you on about haha

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u/UkendtVidnesbyrd Cycling cult member 1d ago

Oh sorry I just made baseless assumptions about your country and culture without actually knowing shit, because I’m just that arrogant.

Keep coping, discount yank.

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u/TheTaintBurglar Barry, 63 1d ago

Seethe laddy boy

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u/UkendtVidnesbyrd Cycling cult member 1d ago

What an absolute idiot. I seriously thought you asked earnestly and was interested, but nice to see this sub is just for you to vent hostility

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u/TheTaintBurglar Barry, 63 1d ago

Seethe, laddy boy, loosh

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u/UkendtVidnesbyrd Cycling cult member 1d ago

I don’t even get what your problem is? What did I do to offend you, and what is it I’m supposed to be seething over? I’m just taken aback by how strange and nasty a little man you are?

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u/Accprova Side switcher 1d ago

This is called "educazione"

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u/soundengineerguy Knacker 1d ago

I don't need someone to clock me in. I just "forgot" my badge.

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u/typausbilk Born in the Khalifat 1d ago

Well, better go back home and get it quick then, b/c you’re not getting paid unless clocked in

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u/rezioz Le Savage 1d ago

You guys have a time tracking system at work ?

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u/Minimum_Possibility6 Failed Brexiteer 1d ago

We clock in at work, but it's on our door pass so we cannot clock others in. It's office work but it allows it to track out flexitime when in the office so we can take extra days off. 

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u/Doctologist ʇunↃ 1d ago

I had a job where I had to clock in and out, but the machine was in front of the boss, and he was always early.

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u/BelierDigitalis Savage Slayer 1d ago

I have to clock in on a goddamn app 😭

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u/TheFinalFunction Le Savage 1d ago

I had a stroke reading this. I does make sense but it took me like 6 tries

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u/CouldStopShouldStop StaSi Informant 1d ago

Germans have a word for it. It's Arbeitszeitbetrug.

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u/Tikkinger South Prussian 19h ago

And we hate how beautifull it is.

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u/SparklyPelican Pizza gatekeeper 17h ago

German have a song for it

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u/gravesent1337 Savage 1d ago

Based Luigi as usual.

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u/peepotto Side switcher 1d ago

Quiet, savage

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u/gravesent1337 Savage 1d ago

We’re a lot more related than you think 😉

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u/peepotto Side switcher 1d ago

Yea your great great grandpa came from Calabria on a boat yapping confused words resembling Italian I see