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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/VickingMwoan on 2025-01-14 19:22:18+00:00.

I work as a field researcher so my job requires me to drive around to a lot of different locations, because of this I also get paid my hourly wage for travel time.

This only includes everything to the jobsite, so ‘jobsite->home’ or ‘office->jobsite’ are paid but ‘office->home’ isn’t paid. We frequently have to end our day at the office to drop off items and resupply. However most of the time me and my colleagues just write all driving time since our homes and offices are close-by and in practice it actually saves time.

So I started this project 3 months ago.

This project was in a city a 45 min drive away from home and a 1 hour drive from the office I usually use and I am assigned to. (This is on a very traffic prone highway btw)

However in the same city I had an assignment we also had an office so I started using that office to drop-off and resupply instead of my normal office.

My manager noticed this so asked me why I still wrote 1,5 hours drive time a day instead of 45 minutes and pointed me to my contract where it is put as I explained before. I replied to him telling him I would drive to my usual office then so I could write the time anyway, he couldn’t do anything against it and hung up.

2 weeks later after I had 4 hours of unnecessary paid time written extra thanks to traffic jams and the extra drive time he told me that from that point on I could just write the time from the city office to home. I have an awesome manager.