clock puncher

American  

noun

1. a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.

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Example Sentences

Wallace Fox was a clock puncher, a work-for-hire employee who followed instructions — which might explain his limited Internet footprint.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

If Malone was celebrated for anything, it was as the ultimate inside operator, the definitive clock puncher.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2015