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==== Early to Shift ====
Unlike traditional private sector employment if a career bid job employee reports to the job early this doesn't mean the employee can then clock out after eight hours of work. An example would be an employee clocked-in two hours early and then clocked-out two hours prior to their shift ending. As a bid job employee the employee as agreed to work the bid job scheduled hours. The two hours early fall outside of the bid job schedule and are overtime. When the employee clocks-out two hours early the time keeping system flags the employee's time and a supervisor will mark the time as LWOP or Leave without Pay. If an employee generates more than eighty hours of LWOP the LWOP deducts any saved or generated AL or annual leave. LWOP must be paid back before an employee can retire. Again the bid job employee has agreed to work the scheduled time and LWOP cheats the Postal Service of the agreed time. Some employees clock-out a few clicks or a few minutes before the end of the bid shift. In this instance though incidental it is ultimately up to the supervisor if they choose to penalize the employee with LWOP for clocking-out early.