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pdaviesa on Feb 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: What happens after Yahoo acquires you

All this talk of freakin timesheets - they may be the biggest waste of time in the post-industrial era. Outside of a "billable hour" type firm, how many managers go back and look through timesheet data to make tactical or strategic decisions? I am now convinced that timesheets will be the downfall of civilization as we know it!

ovi256 on Feb 23, 2011 | [–]

>I am now convinced that timesheets will be the downfall of civilization as we know it!

Oh let's not be overdramatic shall we ?

Civilization dies from a thousand papercuts, not a thundering blow. When the barbarians cut its head it's already dead.

That being said, timesheets are definitely one of those papercuts.

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