punch the clock
Example Sentences
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But really I just punch the clock and go: “What do you want? I’ll give you what you want.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
Exempt workers are on payroll, but they do not have to punch the clock because they are not paid by the hour.
From Encyclopedia.com ● Sep. 19, 2018
Severance by Ling Ma Candace Chen is an office drone at a publishing house in Manhattan that produces specialty bibles, content just to punch the clock and cash her paychecks.
From The Verge ● Aug. 1, 2018
One of the advantages of working in accounting was that in the offseason of taxes, there was not so much pressure to punch the clock and ring up hours.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2018
"To make sure, punch the clock in the front office each time you pass."
From I Walked in Arden by Jack Crawford
