re: Who schedules a meeting at 3:30 on a Friday?

At a 1500 person chem site in the 1995 period , we had another home office inspired cost reduction, outside consultant led meeting where the concept of getting employees to take costs seriously. A topic, managing work hours got a lot of attention, HR and consultants spent a lot of time regards how to communicate that folks were expected to work a full day shift getting every supervisor involved with a script. I asked that our management group take a different approach, Frank and I would go to the gate 45 minutes before quit, sit on a bench and greet the folks with a pleasant smile as they were leaving early. It worked.
Another opportunity was employee scrap sales. That can be a useful benefit to employees, yet historically much of the scrap was prefabricated on company time for specific employee projects. Think stainless steel bbq pit. Scrap sale okey, prefab not okey