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My first boss made us hand-write timesheets, and one late Friday taught me why the old way actually won
Back around 2009 I worked at a small hardware store in Akron and we did our hours on paper slips, then the owner moved us to a punch clock app on his phone. Sounded great until a Friday in December when the app crashed and 14 of us had no record of a single shift that week. I remembered my slips because I always wrote my start and stop times on the back of my hand too, and that little habit saved the whole crew from losing 40 hours of pay before Christmas. The app never told us when it backed up, and the owner admitted later he never checked the settings once. So here is the thing: the paper was slower and annoying, but you could hold it and argue with it face to face. A screen just says error and shrugs at you. Did any of you ever get burned by a system that was supposed to make life easier but folded at the worst time?
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bettyh846d ago
Sounds like a one-off mess up more than a reason to go back to paper. An app crashes once and suddenly the old way "won"? The owner just never checked his settings, that's on him, not the tech.
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