Ask HN: Draconian rules/policies at your current or previous company?
Throwaway for obvious reasons.
In the place I work at, we start off the day with a standup meeting from members of different teams at 8:00am, which is a little bit on the earlier side of the day since many employees have 1+ hour commutes. This standup was imposed after many of the team members that participate joined the company (before that, the standard time to arrive was at 9:00am). The meeting is in-office, mandatory.
Any person that arrives even one minute late, gets 50% of their corresponding pay for that day off. Mind you, many of us work 10-12 hours a day and are expected to be available at any time of the day in case someone needs us and even during the weekends (I, for instance, have a mandatory meeting on Saturday and it is expected of me to fix anything that goes wrong with our product during the weekend). We do not get paid extra-time for any of those extra hours that we put.
In the place I work at, we start off the day with a standup meeting from members of different teams at 8:00am, which is a little bit on the earlier side of the day since many employees have 1+ hour commutes. This standup was imposed after many of the team members that participate joined the company (before that, the standard time to arrive was at 9:00am). The meeting is in-office, mandatory.
Any person that arrives even one minute late, gets 50% of their corresponding pay for that day off. Mind you, many of us work 10-12 hours a day and are expected to be available at any time of the day in case someone needs us and even during the weekends (I, for instance, have a mandatory meeting on Saturday and it is expected of me to fix anything that goes wrong with our product during the weekend). We do not get paid extra-time for any of those extra hours that we put.