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2018-07-30

by shaenon on July 30, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Angry with the Sky
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  1. Robert Nowall
    July 30, 2018, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Does Sweetheart do timesheets in the woods?

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      July 30, 2018, 12:13 am | # | Reply

      She knows from the old joke that crap sticks to bears’ fur, so she fills out timesheets that way.

  2. palenoue
    July 30, 2018, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Who signs their timesheet? Their victims? And who signs their _overdue_ timesheets? (The door guard at Skin Horse HQ, of course)

    • Frank
      July 30, 2018, 12:38 am | # | Reply

      You mean Ira? Or the one at their current HQ?

    • awgiedawgie
      July 30, 2018, 9:14 pm | # | Reply

      I figured Sweetheart was the one who had to sign them. But even if she is, that doesn’t mean she’s going to be OK with them being late.

      Then again, it might be her admin assistant – formerly of The Institute’s fame – and she would love nothing more than a valid reason to give Sweetheart a hard time… assuming she hasn’t also gone reality blind.

  3. Towering Barbarian
    July 30, 2018, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    Feh. Sweetheart, just wait until budget time comes around. At that time you and all the other departments will be desperate to spend money because if you come in under budget the peeps who allocate funds will take that as a signal that you don’t need that much money and reduce your allocation. So a development of this sort is something you should be *grateful* for from a truly bureaucratic point of view! ^o^

  4. mrinku
    July 30, 2018, 2:34 am | # | Reply

    It really depends where in the budget cycle they are. You don’t want budget overruns much either; the trick is to use *exactly* what you’re allocated.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 30, 2018, 6:52 am | # | Reply

      You want just a little overrun. Enough to prove that you need a bigger budget for the next year. If you cut it too close, they’ll leave it as is, and still make you cover this year’s overage out of next year’s budget.

      Alternately, you can hit the nail on the head, and then demonstrate that you had numerous projects that could not be addressed because of budget constraints.

  5. Bruce A Munro
    July 30, 2018, 4:23 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart is a crisis expert – she’s an expert at self-generating them.

  6. Hannibal's Lectern
    July 30, 2018, 8:38 am | # | Reply

    Ah, time sheets… when I worked at Bell Labs many years ago, some executive got the idea that we could become Meaner and Leaner if we recorded everything we did each day in fifteen-minute chunks. So I started doing this, also dutifully noting the half-hour a day I spent accounting for my time (I had to get them to create a new code for this, as they hadn’t thought of it). The policy went away after about three weeks.

    I forget who said this, but it’s true: the time you spend measuring what you did is time spent not doing it. Stability is reached when you spend all your time measuring the nothing you’re doing. Applies equally well to time sheets and standardized testing in schools.

    • BRGR
      July 30, 2018, 11:23 am | # | Reply

      Well, the time sheets are back, and you won’t believe it:

      Executives are grateful for the records showing how much time you spend recording, because this way they can graph the relationship between money spent and project goals met.

  7. =Tamar
    July 30, 2018, 8:52 am | # | Reply

    “Babes in the Woods” is not a happy story.

    • Guesticus
      July 30, 2018, 10:36 am | # | Reply

      Nope, no it’s not, and overdue TimeSheets are grounds for a Rampage, Sweetheart-style 😛

  8. cbob
    July 30, 2018, 7:36 pm | # | Reply

    Behold the Footprints time tracking system and be apathetic.It’s the perfect thing for a security analyst to track all the on-the-fly responses for every distraction/disruption/bs email. (or just assign 4+ hours daily to administrative like I do)

  9. Rick
    July 30, 2018, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

    Those time sheets must be updated! Or Dr. Engelbright won’t have anything to do and with Sweetheart away, she may start trying to improve the agency.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 31, 2018, 11:40 am | # | Reply

      She’s undoubtedly been trying to do that anyway.

  10. Knuckles
    February 8, 2022, 9:27 am | # | Reply

    Improper paperwork brought her here, and improper paperwork will take her away again.

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