It’s that time of the month – timesheet day. Which means I get to waste a good half an hour getting the timesheet ready for accounting. Why is this such a pain in the ass? Let me explain.

First I have to log my time in our shitty tracking software(TM), and assign work codes and assign the hours to a project. Forget the fact that most of our projects don’t have entries in the tracking software so we can’t actually assign most of our work to an actual project. And, using our shitty tracking software(TM) is a pain in the arse because of the designers’ complete disregard for usability.

Next, I have to transfer everything I just did to a spreadsheet. There is no automated way to do this. The project categories are different, and the arrangement is not the same. This must be done manually so everything I just did in the shitty tracking software(TM) I get to do once again in another format.

Then I print the spreadsheet, hand it to the accountant and then they manually take all the info on my timesheet and manually enter it into another database with different work and project categories yet again.

The same set of data is entered three times, by two people, in three different digital formats and one on paper. Does this strike you as efficient?