I never kept my eye on the clock, but in one company,they came up to me and said I HAD to work an extra half hour a day without billing them because their delivery people had to clean up on their own time. I asked them what it had to do with me and the manager of the department said that because the union workers had to do it, we all had to be there a 1/2 extra. I told them I would have to clear it with my company as I was a sub contractor. My company said what the???? After that I left at exactly 5. I hate when people pull that crap. But then they did all kinds of stupid complaints. Like I got too many phone calls a day - when I rarely got any since I did not have my family call and did not give my office number out to my friends. I just check my home answering machine at lunch. Or When the department manager came over and said he had to interrupt our gal chit chat when we were talking about a subroutine that was working differently in different programs. Basically they were trying to dispute our charges after we left saying we did not do good work. My favorite was when they called me back in to explain why I had a program that was almost all comments. I kept a change history in front of the program and never removed lines because I would get so many changes, half the time I would have to put them back. Specifically, when my direct report decided to keep some debit figures in a field called credit blah blah blah, I had to go to the DBA and explain why this was a bad practice and they over ruled the person I reported to. I could not reason with that person and did not like leaving stupid programs behind that could be held against me. I tired to be nice and helpful, do not usually expose idiots, but when they don't listen to reason and when they steal your manuals and books, well, it was not a good scene.
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