It’s still easy enough to get around it. After you hit RETURN2DU, go to the “Are you sure you want to log off?” screen, and select YES (do NOT clock out). Complete your EoS duties as normal.
Before leaving for the day, log back into your scanner (just like you do in the morning), go back into the RRECS Activities menu, and clock out as normal. Your EoS time is still counted for the day. I had my PM check RMSS to make sure my return and end times were in the system, and they were. You don’t have to be logged into the scanner the whole time to get credit.
As for the scanner sounds, I’ve noticed they’ve all been reverted to the same ones that were used for the big blue brick scanners we used to have. I actually prefer these sounds over the new ones (er, I guess they’re the old ones now). They don’t sound as “harsh” and aren’t as annoying, imo.