How does your shop handle shift change?

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Top Comments include:

• “If you're late a minute, it's a point, if you're late 15 minutes, its a half a point.(can't make this sh*t up) You get 6 points and then you're fired. Beings that i work for major corporation, I'm a maintenance mechanic, so they give us leniency and let us flex if it's an emergency and we call ahead. If it's too much time, they make us use vacation and it's up to the supervisors discretion on if they give you a point for the short notice vacation.”
• “We changed to have 2nd shift start time overlap 15 minutes for shift change. They got paid and the other guys could leave on time. Never had an issue once we did this.”
• “This is a company problem and company problems are not mine. My shift is over. If the company failed to ensure their staffing needs are met it is of no concern to me.”
• “My old timer day guy from last job told me he'd give me any time I gave him...if I showed 20 min early he would stay 20 late....I've always done the same....don't roll in at the buzzer and expect me to stay. New job is 1 shift so doesn't matter. I'm also a believer that if your not 15 min early your late.”
• “Most of you guys have never worked on Emergency Overtime Repairs. You want big boy pay you do big boy work. The slackers will be handled.”
• “Dude it's called leave a written line up. I've only ever came across 2 or 3 occasions where a written line up wasn't good enough and in that case, leave it for the next shift. This is not your problem to solve. You leave at your scheduled out time, whether the next shift is there or not.”
• “Our shifts overlap by half an hour.”
• “At the large facility where i apprenticed if you were one second late or punched out one second early you were given a verbal/written warning. If it happened three times you got canned. Tardiness was not an issue there!”