Don't Like - Doing Timesheets

Perhaps the most ingenious thing a conniving capitalist ever concocted was to make doing the thing that gets you paid into one of the worst parts about your job. That one deserves a tip of the old cap. Doing timesheets should be one of the happiest parts of your work day. It’s how you prove that you did the work you did, so someone can give you the money you worked for. But oh how they’ve become a terrible, frustrating, and all-consuming mess. Everything could be as easy as saying you’ll work on something, working on that something and then getting paid. Instead, the current system requires that you do more work to prove that you did work. It’s insane and it’s all because timesheets employ a granular approach in which you’re expected to bill for different projects accurately. How accurate you have to be is debatable but it’s recommended that you stay within 15 minutes of your actual work, though lawyers have to keep it within six minutes. This gets to be extra fun when a project has several different time codes within it. The most unfortunate part of all is that doing your timesheets isn’t even really that bad. Sure they’re annoying but when it comes time to do them it’s fine? And yet… just the word has a way of making your skin crawl. Let it be said that if I ever go freelance, I promise I’ll learn to love them.