Watched a buddy go through almost the same thing last year. He cracked a joke about his manager's weird parking spot obsession at a bar on a Friday, and by Monday two people had already told the manager before he even walked in. The wild part was one of the people who snitched had been laughing the hardest at the joke. He got pulled into a meeting and had to do the whole fake apology thing too, and the guy who laughed just sat there staring at his shoes. It taught me that after hours stuff only stays after hours if nobody there wants something from your boss.

We had the same fight on a hospital job two years back and what finally turned it around was making the app the easy path, not the smart path. I sat with our two oldest hands, guys with 30 plus years, and showed them the pinch and zoom on their own phones instead of talking at them in a meeting, because they were not against the app, they just did not want to feel dumb in front of the young guys. The other thing that helped was the foreman agreeing to post the current rev to the app first thing every morning and only printing for anyone who asked, so paper stopped being the default. It took about a month and a couple of guys still keep a paper set in the truck, but they check the app before they build now. Your mileage may vary, but the $4,200 reframe is a good story to bring up when you make the case.