Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

*531Opinion

GRODIN, J.

Richard E. Pointer, the applicant for benefits in this case, was employed by petitioner Safeway Stores, Inc. as a data processing clerk at petitioner’s plant in Fremont, California. On the night of November 2, 1975, he reported for work at his usual starting time, which was 3 p.m., but instead of leaving at his usual quitting time, which was 11:15 p.m., he remained at work until 5:30 the following morning in order to help complete a semiannual grocery inventory. There was some evidence of a computer malfunction. At 5:30 a.m. he left to go home, and as he got out of his car to…