ride the clock
verb1
To leave one's workplace covertly without clocking out, thus continuing to be paid.
- Complainant and his wife both complained to Mr. Cooper about employees "riding the clock," that is being clocked in, but not being at work.1984, Decisions - Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission:
- […] everyone was doing what he paid us to do, rather than gossip, goof off and ride the clock, things we often did instead.2015, Lorraine Stephens, The Black Man Drought, page 39: