ride the clock

English

Verb

ride the clock (third-person singular simple present rides the clock, present participle riding the clock, simple past rode the clock, past participle ridden the clock)

1. To leave one's workplace covertly without clocking out, thus continuing to be paid.
   • 1984, Decisions - Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission:

     Complainant and his wife both complained to Mr. Cooper about employees "riding the clock," that is being clocked in, but not being at work.

   • 2015, Lorraine Stephens, The Black Man Drought, page 39:

     […] everyone was doing what he paid us to do, rather than gossip, goof off and ride the clock, things we often did instead.