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MinnieM123

MinnieM123

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StarWarsGirl said:
I'm having some not nice flashbacks to when I had to remind people to put in their time...

It's not that hard...


(That being said, I'm just as glad that I'm salaried and don't have to do it...)
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Deja vu -- I used to put through payroll for a dept. I had a theory about one person who (on a number of occasions) "forgot" to enter her hours before the deadline. She obviously didn't need the money . . . :rolleyes:
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
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FutureCEO said:
I'm supposed to be that person but I don't do it sometimes. I mean your an adult, I shouldn't be holding your hand to input your time.
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I had to do it because in IT world, you have to charge to what you're doing. So if you don't do it, it becomes a SOX compliance issue, which the company can get dinged for. So I would be chasing down people to please just enter their time. I had everything set up, like automated emails, reminders, everything. People. Still. Wouldn't. Do. It.

I had one guy who after I left that role, I became friends with (we still keep in touch). He said before he always avoided me because he never turned in his time, and he was scared of me. He said it was like the principal coming down the hall when he'd see me, and he'd turn and walk the other direction. I was like 1. I never would have said anything just in passing and 2. A very simple solution would have been for him to just TURN IN HIS TIME. 🤣
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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StarWarsGirl said:
I had to do it because in IT world, you have to charge to what you're doing. So if you don't do it, it becomes a SOX compliance issue, which the company can get dinged for. So I would be chasing down people to please just enter their time. I had everything set up, like automated emails, reminders, everything. People. Still. Wouldn't. Do. It.

I had one guy who after I left that role, I became friends with (we still keep in touch). He said before he always avoided me because he never turned in his time, and he was scared of me. He said it was like the principal coming down the hall when he'd see me, and he'd turn and walk the other direction. I was like 1. I never would have said anything just in passing and 2. A very simple solution would have been for him to just TURN IN HIS TIME. 🤣
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But why would that dude refuse to turn in his time? what is his problem?
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
Story time!

So we are doing a long DL/Hawaii trip in June. My parents did this for me when I graduated, so now they're doing it for my brother since this is his last year of school. Anyway, I didn't buy my airfare to DL because we just got our unlimited PTO policy, and I wasn't sure if I'd be allowed two weeks off. Thankfully I was.

Anyway, the airfare went way up in between my parents booking it and me trying to book it. So I just decided to sit on it. I'm so familiar with Southwest that I know when they have a fare that stays the same for a long time, they'll all the sudden tell you there's only three left, only one left, etc in an attempt to make you book. Then the airfare will go up, and the next day it will go down to what it was before.

So anyway, I was willing to sit around on this. My dad, however, decided to nag me. For weeks. Almost every day it was "Did you book that airfare?" Now, my father has this flawed idea that he is always right. And there is no sense in arguing with him because he's a lawyer, and that will just end in a debate which ends with him saying "Just do what I say!" So I would just shrug and say, "Nope." And if he asked me why not, I'd tell him because I thought it would go down. He would tell me I was wrong, it was only going to go up. I said, "Okay Dad, whatever you say." This has been going on since...January?

Anyway, Tuesday night, he came into my room at midnight, freaking out because "There's only two left! Why haven't you booked it?" I shrugged him off, didn't do it.

The next day, the airfare went up. He says, "I told you that you should have booked it! But you should book it now before it goes up again."

So the next morning, I check the airfare...and it's lower than it was all those weeks. I booked it, and since I had a credit sitting on my account, I paid the same thing they did. Then I went downstairs, said "Okay Dad, I did what you said and booked it." "Oh, so you paid a higher price?" "Nope, I paid the lower price since it dropped this morning."

He was flummoxed. Then he asked me why I didn't just explain in the first place. I told him there was no point because he wouldn't have listened and would have just told me to do it anyway. Which Mom agreed with.

I'm just gonna add this to the times I was right about something...only I was playing the really long game here. 🤣
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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StarWarsGirl said:
Story time!

So we are doing a long DL/Hawaii trip in June. My parents did this for me when I graduated, so now they're doing it for my brother since this is his last year of school. Anyway, I didn't buy my airfare to DL because we just got our unlimited PTO policy, and I wasn't sure if I'd be allowed two weeks off. Thankfully I was.

Anyway, the airfare went way up in between my parents booking it and me trying to book it. So I just decided to sit on it. I'm so familiar with Southwest that I know when they have a fare that stays the same for a long time, they'll all the sudden tell you there's only three left, only one left, etc in an attempt to make you book. Then the airfare will go up, and the next day it will go down to what it was before.

So anyway, I was willing to sit around on this. My dad, however, decided to nag me. For weeks. Almost every day it was "Did you book that airfare?" Now, my father has this flawed idea that he is always right. And there is no sense in arguing with him because he's a lawyer, and that will just end in a debate which ends with him saying "Just do what I say!" So I would just shrug and say, "Nope." And if he asked me why not, I'd tell him because I thought it would go down. He would tell me I was wrong, it was only going to go up. I said, "Okay Dad, whatever you say." This has been going on since...January?

Anyway, Tuesday night, he came into my room at midnight, freaking out because "There's only two left! Why haven't you booked it?" I shrugged him off, didn't do it.

The next day, the airfare went up. He says, "I told you that you should have booked it! But you should book it now before it goes up again."

So the next morning, I check the airfare...and it's lower than it was all those weeks. I booked it, and since I had a credit sitting on my account, I paid the same thing they did. Then I went downstairs, said "Okay Dad, I did what you said and booked it." "Oh, so you paid a higher price?" "Nope, I paid the lower price since it dropped this morning."

He was flummoxed. Then he asked me why I didn't just explain in the first place. I told him there was no point because he wouldn't have listened and would have just told me to do it anyway. Which Mom agreed with.

I'm just gonna add this to the times I was right about something...only I was playing the really long game here. 🤣
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