In most offices, the biggest drama around clocking in is forgetting your ID card or sprinting through the door at the last minute. Now, in one neighbourhood committee in China, employees apparently took things to a whole new level. A report from Wenzhou City in Zhejiang province has blown the lid off a bizarre workplace scheme that sounds like it belongs in a sitcom. Staff printed out their colleagues’ faces, turned them into masks and used them to fool the facial-recognition attendance system, The South China Morning Post reported.

How The Scheme Worked

A local, surnamed Li, alerted authorities after noticing something off about how some employees were clocking in. According to the report, the committee’s secretariat was allegedly in charge.

The strategy was surprisingly low-tech but a

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