I've had an employer's supervisor write me out while I was working which meant I was working without pay. Over a years time I equaled that out to a weeks pay not to mention overtime which was time I've given to this company. This one company didn't go by it's time card. I also was laid off from that company also and now I'm no longer employed. Wished I was working but I feel I'm being black listed also. Thanks America.

Employee fudging of work time isn't nearly so prevalent as employers who find ways to dodge paying those employees for hours worked. Some businesses now tell you right away that if you work over x-amount of hours, they will not pay you for it. But on the job, if you are told to stay and do something... you either do it or lose your job.

Why not ask how many employers fudge the books on employee's paychecks, huh??

we should the way the upper manager get their bonus..it a dam shame that they get what they do; it time for a change in america..

I've never ever punched a time card.

I've never fudged but I too have had employers not pay me for hours I worked it irritates me to no end

So many of you are justifying why it is OK to lie on your time card. It is stealing, plain and simple. If any employer is making you work without paying you, then they need to be reported.

I fired someone who was repeatedly writing down more hours worked than she actually did. I watched her for two weeks to make sure. When confronted, she laughed. Said "Of course I lied. I need the money". She was robbing us same as if she took money from the cash register.

I caught a co-worker "fudging" her card, told my supervisor about it, and I got written up for "tampering" with her card. No I did not sign off on the warning, I refused to!

Time cards are demeaning and pointless. It just feeds the dog eat dog.

I currently work for a company that develops Time and Attendance software, and regularly work with this kind of thing.

It is absolutely astonishing how much employees will quietly get away with when asked to report their labor on their "honor". I've personally seen a company's labor costs drop by many thousands of dollars every week when they go from an honor system to an electronic timeclock system.
But then again, you also get the other side of the spectrum, where employers will manipulate schedules, shuffle workers and generally game the system to squeeze out as few dollars as possible for as much work as possible while staying barely inside the lines of the law.

Tracking Time & Attendance is a double-edged sword. Accounting for your time on the job means that you actually have to be where you're supposed to be, doing what you're supposed to be doing. But, if the employee is "on the clock", it is mandatory that the employer pay the employee for that time, regardless of what they were doing or how well they were doing it.

Please clarify. Do you mean a day on the golf course, 3 martini lunch, padding the expense account or putting down an extra hour or so on your time card in the mill. Huge difference.

When I was taking a basic Auditing class, it was all about catching the employee who was stealing, immoral behavior. When I asked about techniques to catch the employer who was stealing (as in my experience many do ), I was told that auditing wasn't concerned about the employer.

Its the same with walking away from a mortgage. If you are just an individual it shows your low moral standards in not paying what you borrowed. But if the investment bank walks away from a .5 billion dollar land deal, its good business.

Moral are for the vassel slaves, not the rich lords.

Never had a time card!

My company does not use time cards. They track employee work habits through a microchip that was a requirement for employment.

It annoys me when the scan does not work properly, resulting in me not being counted for time worked, an hour here, an hour there always less time worked though.

I just can't win with this system, nor can I fudge it.

I work for a company that uses electric time card and access pass. It records when you enter the building and will not let you in till half hour before you start work. Once in, it records what doors you go through as well as the time. It will also grant or deny access to other parts of the plant. It also allows us to eat at the cafeteria with a swipe of the card and a pay roll deduction. The people we do business with require it for the safety of their product.

Any professional has worked more hours than they are paid for. Professionals typically are focused on making their project successful. That is what turns them on! That is what motivates them. Skilled and unskilled labor? You will find people in each category who are success driven, quality driven who will work the extra time. But in general, it doesn't happen. The US culture is not success oriented. The US culture is focused on .... Dang. I'm not sure I know. The news media highlights sex and divisiveness. Maybe the US is about to fail in the world!