Random Stupidity

The shortcomings of the timesheets system becoma ever more apparent the further down the road we go with it. The big boss wants to create the invoice transactions for on site support, overnight stays and travel expenses directly from the system. Fine, OK, we can do that but ...

• we don't hold the expense rates on the contracts in the system anywhere
• people travelling to a site the night before have been booking their time to 'ADMIN' rather than the contract for the customer they are going to
• weekend work is being recorded in a totally different place to everything else making it impossible to tie the two together in any meaningful way

In other words, business as usual ...

Oh, and just to brighten the day, the receptionist at Leeds has just sent round an email saying that a sandwich company called "Taste Quizine" have just arrived, and apparently somebody has lost their swipe card that they need to "excess" the building ...