Clock in honest. The minutes you steal from a job are small, but the habit you’re building isn’t.

Ten minutes here and there barely registers on anyone’s books. It registers on you, because it needs a small ongoing decision that this is fine, and that decision spreads quietly. Work turns into something you take from rather than something you do. The money involved was never really the point.

If the job genuinely underpays you, the answer is to say so or to leave, not to skim the difference. Skimming turns a fair complaint into something you can no longer say out loud. Keep the grievance clean enough to raise.