A while back, before the great database debacle, I won a writing contest with TSheets, which ultimately led to my employment with TSheets. I got an email the other day from a reader that was asking what happened to the story. I promised to re-post the original article (dated April 30th, 2008), but I also want to mention that if you’ve not heard about TSheets’ Freshbooks integration (certain passages written by yours truly), go give it a read. Pretty cool stuff for small business owners and self employed professionals. Without further adieu:
TSheets takes the tough sheet out of your time sheet
3000 BC: Fred Flintstone ends day by listening for high pitched squawking bird. Quarry Foreman spends hours pouring over timestones at the end of the week.
1634: Bells signal farmers to and fro the fields. Hungover bell maid causes hours of lost wages as farmers stand poised at edge of fields.
1868: Steam whistles pierce the industrial landscape. Drought results in days of lost productivity.
1913: IBM introduces the first ‘Punch Clock’. Band Aids become standard working apparel.
2008: Tsheets simplifies your life and brings employee time tracking to a new millennium.
How many times has the wife/husband/significant other heard, “Babe…I’m so right there with you….just as soon as I get these time sheets calculated.”? How many times have you missed the game because, let’s be honest, assembling timesheets for payroll, while important, is as about as exciting as watching the grass grow?
Tsheets was born from the best stuff on earth: necessity. Whether you’re tracking 5 employees or 5000, tsheets is a simple to use, LAMP based app that can keep track of all your employees.
Running a single office? Keep track of all your core employees, consultants, developers, freelancers, etc. all in one location. You can even monitor real time. Running multiple locations across the city, state, country, world? Man, you should own stock in Excedrin, as that has nightmare written all over it. Fear not young captain of industry…tsheets can take the tough sheet out of your time sheet.
Employees forget to clock in/clock out (when…when dear lord will they learn)? No problem, anyone you grant admin rights to can clock an employee in/out at any time. What about the subcontractors I’ve got running the electrical today? Bossman got a blackberry (and you KNOW he does) or other web-enabled device? No problem, give him the URL, and he can clock in/out from anywhere in the world. Better yet, your code ninjas strutting around with their new iPhone? Tsheets has developed the TGadget that not only works as a Google widget, but functions flawlessly with an iPhone. What about that hacker we just hired to test our security features, I just have a feeling he’s going to change the clock time on his home machine, and cheat me outta 20 hours of ‘work’ while he’s off fragging somewhere. Consider that hacker PWND, ‘cause all times are stored in centrally in UTC time.
Whether you’re running a tiny (read self employed) business, or charting your way to the stars (read the guy in the armani), if you’re dealing with ye old adage, ‘time is money’, tsheets is a product you can’t afford to be without.
For more on TSheets, their products and services, check ‘em out at TSheets.com.
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Every time i come here I am not dissapointed, nice post
I never thought I’d enjoy an article about timesheets, but this one’s got my LOL’ing. thanks!