Timesheet Puns

So I got called into the office for coaching. Was asked why it takes more than 3 minutes to use the bathroom.

I have IBS and am shy about diarrhea when people are in the bathroom. Told me he has been keeping a timecard and he will dock my pay for bathroom breaks anything over 6 minutes a day.

He also told me when he was in the bathroom washing his hands he saw me using my phone through the crack of the stall and said he is giving me a verbal warning, next will be written warning.

I'm done with this place, I should take fmla leave and say fuck this place.

How am I supposed to fill up my day with billable hours, keep fees down on the clients I'm on, and fill in down time when none of the seniors or managers have any work for me to do when I finish what I'm assigned with all at the same time? My timesheet and worrying about getting my hours up without going over budget on what I'm assigned on is easily the worst part of this job so far. It doesn't help that I got minimal training and guidance on it. When I was student I used to always see the jokes/memes on this sub about timesheets and I never got them till now. Ugh.

I have to do a timesheet and list all the project I work (Yes, there is a project for "Sitting on my ass and waiting for something to break.")

But it's a bean counter timesheet. I don't list the actual hours worked on a project. I list the amount of hours agreed upon between my boss and the project manager.

And, yes, I am salaried.

Just curious of other salaried people to submit a timesheet.

My employer regularly makes their employees work upwards of 7-8 hours without a break. We are paid under the restaurant award which states that, after 5 hours, employers must pay 150% of the regular pay until a break is given. In order to avoid this, my employer will adjust our timesheets, saying that we started 30 minutes prior to when we actually started, and adding in a break that was never taken. We are paid for all the hours that are worked, but we are not paid to additional penalty rate that applies for not taking a break.

Where do i go from here?

Worked as a contractor at a company in the IT department. The last week I worked there was a bit of a shit show. Our offshore support bailed during a time when something very important broke for month end and I wasn't able to fix it as it's not something I normally support and have no idea how it works. I also had to take off the last Friday I worked. In general I would say that my time there wasn't the best. I did not make as much of an impact as I wanted to, was left to gain traction all on my own and did not succeed in those efforts as much as I wanted to. And as such I would say it wasn't a good fit. I had one foot out the door looking for new jobs and wasn't necessarily at my best the last few weeks there.

That Friday I called out and was told that day by my actually employer that they were ending my contract 3 weeks early. I basically had another job offer in hand and wasn't too upset to be honest. But. when I submitted my timesheet for my final week that Monday it was rejected. My boss had said that the quality of my work did not indicate that I was actually working during that period. I've never had such an insult levied against me in my entire professional career.

So in addition to getting fired I didn't get my last paycheck. Just goes to show you there are some real assholes out there.

I started my first consulting job this month and I'm still adjusting to the timesheet aspect. I'm on 2 projects now and between that and the onboarding I had no trouble filling in my hours. Now that the one project is winding down I'm finding myself adding a few hours of admin time just to get a full 8 hours. Like today I'm putting 6 hours towards this project and 2 hours to admin except I definitely don't have 6 hours worth of work. I contacted my supervisor letting them know I'll need more work next week but today and tomorrow I'll be stretching it just to fill in my timesheet.

So how truthful and accurate are your timesheets? Do you ever say you worked on something for 8 hours but really only did 4 hours then kinda doodled around the rest of the day? Isn't that basically stealing?

My last job was just a normal 8-5 and when I didn't have much work it was no big deal because I didn't have to account for all my hours.

So I'm with Cross Country, and have been with them for both my last assignment as well as this assignment.

On my last assignment, we travelers filled out timesheets for our agencies that we kept in a binder at the hospital, and we punched in and out with a punchcard for that hospital. At the end of the pay period, a client from that hospital (presumably the manager) would sign off on the hours and they would send it over to Cross Country. I didn't have to do anything and got paid reliably.

At this new hospital, they gave us badges and showed us how to clock in and out on them. They told us that for orientation week they would keep track of the hours for us, especially because some of the days on orientation week involve doing modules at home (and thus wouldn't be able to physically clock in and out with a badge).

I asked them if they had timesheets that the travelers/agency nurses fill out, and they said that they didn't. They said that the managers would send over the hours to the agencies (i.e., the travelers weren't filling out timesheets). I was a little disconcerted because what if I do my hours but don't get paid for them?

Anyway, I asked my recruiter about it and she "I would still fill one out and send it to us!" But if I do do that, how am I supposed to get the manager to sign off on that timesheet? I work night shift, including all the weekends, and have no clue how I would get a signature on a Sunday in order to get that sheet over to Cross Country. All of this seems like unnecessary extra work. What would you do?

I just started in a large civil engineering firm and as an entry level engineer fresh out of school, I'm not really fast doing tasks. To make up for it, I've been working 10 11 hours per day... i've been probed by PMs and PEs why it took me so long and I feel like they're implying that I'm not actually working. I am working alot but i feel like i just can't seem to catch up. I feel burnt out and exhausted.. can anyone give me some advice regarding this matter? Time sheets are also v annoying. P.S: i work from home, everyone else is too. I'd really appreciate some tricks hacks which can help me keep my sanity and i can work less....lol

Edit: You guys are amazing, thank you so much for all the extremely helpful advice. I can't believe I have this amazing support which i wasn't aware of.😁

Hey guys! I’m pretty new to this timesheet thing for temps, so I wasn’t aware that I had to ask the supervisor to sign off everyday, and thought I only had to get them to sign off at the end of the month. Today was my first day at work and as a result I didn’t get them to sign off. I know I made a pretty dumb mistake :””) So I’m wondering if this has happened to anyone else before, and did the agency give you your salary for the day the supervisor didn’t sign off?

I am using people plus to enter in my time, I am getting a Covid booster tomorrow and I want to use admin leave, the instructions for it seem vague but as of now I have my 8 hours for tomorrow and the time reporting code for administrative sick leave. I can get up to 4 hours but how do I distinguish that in my timesheet? It just looks like I’m taking 8 hours of sick leave. I’d ask someone at work but everyone’s gone till January 3rd lol. Thank you in advance for your help.

Edit: I think I figured it out! I just added a time to a day on my timesheet and put hours in for it along with the admin code. Thank you all for the help :)

Hello, I want to know if a company can legally refuse to pay hours worked because of late submission of timesheet/attendance? Will they pay me in future months or will I never be paid at all? Is this legal?

I just started less than a month ago, both my senior and manager are on vacation until next week, I posted that I am available but no one has asked me to do anything. It seems like it's not busy at all around holiday time. Anyone has ideas about what I could do with little experience and what I could put on my timesheet if I just have a lot of downtimes?

Is there anyone who uses ESS to save their timesheet that can help me? I can't remember how to do my timesheet, and today is the last day to modify. It was my 2nd week I'm new. I received unexpected personal health news yesterday, so I've been scattered all day. Just realized I didn't do it and the clock is ticking. I need to be paid on time. I saved a template type thing last week, so I know what codes to use, but my mind is completely blanks on how exactly to modify and save so it doesn't show red "employee action required" for the 5 days worked this week. I'm at the front page with no idea what I'm doing. Just been sitting here clicking and crying lolllll Trying to remember what my team leader showed me last week, but all I remember is nothing at all. SOS can someone explain it like I'm 5 please I beg you 🙏

Love the posts my people have shared with me from this Reddit. Finally getting around to joining and I've got a challenge I could use some help with.

I have to fill out a timesheet daily. I have until 1PM the next day to fill it out. I'm bad at this. I just am. I've been trying different tactics for 10 years and it's still difficult for me. If I could, I'd write some kind of program to say "did you work {8} hours on {your last project}?" I'd select yes and it would auto fill the timesheet and save. If I select no, it opens my timesheet to the relevant day and I fill it in. But I don't have the time and expertise to build such a macro/program.

The task itself is absurdly easy, but it in the time they need just short circuits my brain.

My current tactic is to have 3 calendar alerts that go off on my computer and phone at 5pm, 11am, and 12:55pm.

My boss told me I need to be much better.

This past year, I started asking for accommodations. I've found good solutions for some things, but not all things. Do you have any ideas on something I could ask for that would help?

Should I ask about having more time? Should I ask that the rule doesn't apply to me? Or is there a device or application that might make this easier?

Would really appreciate your help! Thanks!

Have a front store shift that has been working in pharmacy as well and her time sheet this week basically has doubled her hours? Says S2P and we aren’t sure what to do. Just don’t want to close it out for the week and have her owing CVS money.

If you had to fill out a timesheet for how you spend your gaming time over a week, what would it look like?

I spent 15 years gaming on a Mac, so I was usually only playing one game at a time (mostly MMOs), but since I switched to PC I'm having trouble with the endless choices available. I don't know how people have enough time to spend getting good at anything, or not forgetting a storyline. So I'm curious how many games people are generally playing at any one time, and how you spread out that time?

Hello, we are looking for a timesheets integration, or system that could potentially replace timesheets. Not tsheets (payroll), but instead we have staff in a warehouse that hands the office hand written timesheets for time spent on each project, for each customer, and then the office has to manually enter this information into timesheets in QB Enterprise to bill the client.

We're hoping there is an integration, preferably an app, that the warehouse guys can use, without having to login to QuickBooks, so we can skip the step of having an office person have to manually enter time for each project to be billed.

Any suggestions?

I just transferred to the agency and every week my time sheets in CAS self-service default to activity type 999. I have to manually change each week to 249 and release the time sheet otherwise I receive an error email. Has anyone had this problem and fixed it or will I have to do this piece of personal admin every week for the rest of my career here? Any insight is appreciated!

I witnessed one of my managers (chain retail store) amending coworkers' timesheets so that they have worked less on paper than they did in reality. Her justification was that the store had gone over the "budget" for hours. Obviously this is going to result in my coworkers having done unpaid work. Is this falsification against the law in the UK?? I'm pretty sure it is. It doesn't even benefit her to change the hours worked!!! its made me so angry. especially bc on eof the times she changed was my coworker taking a shorter lunch on black Friday weekend to help her bc of how busy the shop was! and she's thanked him by withholding wages..

the store is currently between managers and she is one of the temporary ones. I messaged one of the others about it but I'm autistic and have bad anxiety so I am really stressed out bc of messaging him. I hate having to be assertive, and I don't even know if the coworkers whose hours were reduced are bothered by it (afaik my timesheets haven't been edited). but it just seemed so morally wrong and stupid that I had to do something but I am paying the emotional price now lol.

not much point to this post, just wanted to vent in an understanding place.

EDIT: adding more to the rant, they did another coworkers contract wrong and put her at £8.36 rather than £6.56 (different ages' minimum wages) but are refusing to stand by the contract which also feels very illegal

So, I'm sorry confused with how the timesheets work.

So for the month of October. The time sheet had October 31 and November 1st. Do those hours get added into the timesheet for November? How is the overtime calculated for the first week of November? Do we take into consideration the hours we worked for October 31 and November 1st for the overtime purposes for the first week of November? Can anyone help explain?

So I am currently working as a temp to perm for a healthcare agency in Syracuse, NY. The work is work but I can manage it. Since I’m a temp, my hours get approved by whoever my supervisor is at the job. I worked Monday through Wednesday of last week, submitted my timesheet on Thursday because I had called out and they were going to be closed NYE. Today I get a notification saying it was returned and when I looked to see why, the recommended hours for the days I worked were 0 (zero) as if to imply I didn’t work. I sent it over to the agency because obviously it’s bullshit. I’m currently out because they need me to get tested for Covid before I can come back (that’s been a pain to even do) so I’m just annoyed that I feel like I’m getting toyed with.

I did a short contract for a company recently. They require us to log our hours in Jira and the contracting firm I’m contracted with asks us to fill a timesheet out using Bullhorn. The client then approves the timecard in Bullhorn and the contracting firm submits the pay to the contractor (me). The day before I gave my immediate notice, I made sure to log my hours for my last day in both areas.

I left the client company due to two toxic individuals that made my contract pure torture. My direct boss was a woman who made excuses for her project manager’s incompetence and literal stealing of the documents I created. To top it off, her micromanaging and passive aggressive emails caused unnecessary stress. So I began looking for a new job and found one. I gave them my notice, effective immediately, and told my contracting firm that I submitted my timesheet in both Jira and Bullhorn.

I woke up today to an email that says my timesheet in Bullhorn was rejected by the client. This is clearly a passive aggressive move by this toxic boss and I need advice as to what can be done.

I should also mention that I sent her emails on the day in question that can prove I was in fact online and working during the hours I listed on my timesheet.

(reposted with my correct account)

The background.

I have been a freelance contractor for over 30 years (UK) and worked for many companies, usually on an hourly or daily rate. About 10 years ago I had the opportunity to work for a client on a six month contract on a daily rate, and also to work from home except for some site visits for meetings.

Since I was working from home I was able to work my own hours, I was judged basically on my output not the 'bum hours on seat'. I would work whenever I wanted, an hour here or there, multiple breaks during the work day, and also some times at weekends whenever I felt like it. However, I ensured that I at least complied with the '40 hours a week' minimum even though I was on a daily rate.

The way that it worked on this contract was that I would submit my timesheet for my 'boss' to sign, that would be sent to my agency and they would do all the work to create invoices to the end client and pay me based on how long I worked that week. I did not have to submit invoices to the agency (they used something called 'self invoicing').

Now, because of the hassle of trying to record all the start times, times for breaks etc. it was a pain to fill in the clients timesheet (which only allowed for one start time, one lunch break, one end time) so (because I was on a daily rate) I would just record a standard 09:00 - 17:30 start/stop and 30 minute lunch for every week-day knowing I was putting in the hours and not cheating the client.

This was all well for a couple of months, my 'boss' would sign the timesheet, the agency would invoice the client and just send me the money each month. At some point I would reconcile my books noting the payments against my days worked.

The compliance

At some point by 'boss' balked at how I was filling in my timesheet and asked for it to be more detailed. This was where the malicious compliance took over. I would carefully record all the periods I was working (which I did anyway) and then create a timesheet for the week. This resulted in several pages of timesheets rather than the previous five lines, now showing all periods I worked, all breaks I took, total hours for each day, total hours for the week, my 'boss' would need to check all of this and sign it and we continued that way for a while.

The fallout.

Now you may think this was only a small malicious compliance, it took me extra effort to comply, my 'boss' got the detailed timesheet he required and nothing changed. Howev

This happened pre covid but still find it relevant. My boss and I were the only two designers for the company. He left for two weeks, which means me covering for him. I worked overtime, went to all his meetings and did basically the job of three designers. I clocked in the hours and boss sends me an email asking me to remove it. Definitely my fault for not pushing harder. Unfortunately this wasn’t the first time I’ve been screwed over by them. Mind you this place isn’t broke - 1billion+ in donations, grants, and fundraising. But it was the last straw. Not counting the time they sent a logo I made off to a freelancer who literally plagiarized my work and just changed the color scheme. That was a slap in the face.

Knowing my worth and skill set, I started applying else where. Got lots of call back and in writing offers. Even after I started at the new place I was still getting offers. Which is very interesting in the art field.

Happy to say that I now work at a place that offered me 25% more than what I was making. Annual reviews with actual raises. They’ve even gone as far to give their employees stimulus checks from their own fund a couple of times during covid. A place that actually listens and respects their employees wishes on WFH policy. I get included in big meets because this place actually values my input and profession. I like my job now, thank God. A mindset I haven’t had in years.

I encourage everyone not to settle. Keep pushing and searching. It might take time but staying in a toxic environment is not living. I honestly was just too loyal and afraid to leave. Sure bills need to be paid, but don’t make that your end goal. Know your worth.

How do i show that i am holding my weight and putting in the work if my time does not reflect that?

This is my first time using PPTO. I was told to enter in GTA which I did. Now the status says pending. Does it need to be approved by someone or I get paid automatically in my next pay check? Please share any info. Thank you!

I officially stopped working at my current job on the 15th of November and gave my work due notice. In fact HR had known for months. I worked a total of 10 hours on the 8th and 9th of November and have these timesheets on record, on a shift logger app, that’s utilised by the organisation.

These hours had been pending approval by my department manager for weeks. Today she deleted the hours and approved them as ‘unpaid leave’. Im furious. I messaged her asking why she removed the hours that I’ve already worked and haven’t yet been paid for. She hasn’t responded. What should I do?

The date for the closing of this month has not yet come out, is it normal for them to be late?

I was looking at old posts on the portal about the closing of the timesheets and apparently they had never been delayed like this time

Hi all,
there are a million project management websites that do all kinds of great things, but it seems like they're missing some basic functions and are more designed to spy on employees. all i'm looking for is a timesheet app that:
- let's an employee type in the number of hours each week
- will automatically calculate if the person worked overtime that week
- has supervisor/admin approval for a timesheet
- tracks PTO hours for the employee

Any leads on a simple timesheet system would be awesome. i'm fine with paying. i just want it to work. I've seen a bunch of people saying positive things about Tsheets but that was before Quickbooks bought them. seems like you need to have quickbooks to use that now, although i may be mistaken.

thanks for the help!

For those that have to provide a timesheet to their customer, what timesheet software do you use ? What price do you pay ? I see things at 180 € per year that seem quite convincing.

Useful features would be:

• start and stops button on web and / or mobile app
• location records (to determine if I was on-site or remote)
• weekly / monthly / by customer / by project report
• generating custom style invoice based on timesheet
• API or exports or hooks, so that I can programmatically create records in their system or my customer's system.

I was laid off some time ago. They said it was because my role was being phased out, but it was really because I'd brought up some safety concerns and they didn't like that I wouldn't leave it alone.

One of my responsibilities was helping with a complicated timesheet run out of Excel and used by the department. Some key functionality of the file relied on Google APIs and in order to get a key I had to provide a credit card. My previous company card expired the month I was let go and I hadn't yet updated the account with my new card. As soon as the month ended, the old card was no longer valid and the key for the APIs stopped working. I'm the only person with the Google account login.

I found out through some old co-workers that they could never get it to work again and what had once been a simple, automated process now required a lot of manual entry for each of the 100+ employees. Not to mention the upkeep the timesheet required when employees were added/removed or the countless other little things that no one else knew how to do.

The contract doesn't specify about DST. But since I'm working 13 hours instead of 12, why would I get pay for 12 hours rather than 13?

I have emailed them but I only have so much time to get my 10 hour minimum in bc I have surgery on the last work day of this week.

Questions:

I finished training on my start date (yesterday). I wasn't getting any tasks so I thought maybe I can't start yet. But they told me that was my start date?

This is probably a dumb question but do we have to keep track of each task time then add it up at the end of the day and put it in the timesheet? I'm assuming we wouldn't be inputting each task separately that would be silly. So they have to trust us to time each task add it up then apply to the timesheet for that day?

Quick question, do you have to submit your timesheet after the end of the week or every two weeks in Workday?