Occasionally the contract company I work for requires all its consultants to submit time on a different schedule than usual. Would you like to guess how many emails are typically sent out to remind consultants about this? I’d guess in the neighborhood of 1.2 gazillion. Let me ponder the irony of this…we’re paid to bring enlightenment to our individual agencies/companies but we can’t be trusted to remember to turn in our timesheets? In case I’ve never mentioned it, my company is a technical company. Yes, we’re all technically savvy. I think we’re also smart enough to put a reminder on our calendars. And, I’m pretty sure the whole rule of no timesheet equals no paycheck is a rule we all remember.
The other funny thing about my involvement with this company (actually there are lots of funny things but I don’t have the energy to list them all) is my profile on the time entry system includes these words–Business Driver: Increase Revenue. Well, duh.