/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13759051
This. 100%. OP has no legal or contractual requirement whatsoever to supply any form of compensation for something that caused the company no loss. This is a standard rule in both common law and civilian law systems, and it’s certainly the reason you can’t impose fines in the common law. To receive compensation, you must prove loss. That is the fundamental, core basis of all claims in tort, contract, and unjust enrichment.

And you all may think this doesn’t matter, but this is no different to the company demanding OP replace a photocopier because he didn’t turn it off or something (even though it still works), or OP be forced to work late without pay because his manager decides to make up some arbitrary rule about OP not greeting him properly that morning.

OP has no obligation whatsoever to do anything outside the terms of his employment contract, and certainly not to incur costs to himself (no matter how small). There is a reason employment contracts are a thing, and this is precisely the reason why - to stop employers just making up any old ‘rule’ and then penalising you for its infraction. ‘Office culture’, ‘just a joke’, etc. are all entirely irrelevant.

Know your rights, idiots.