Those kinds of blows are why I'm reducing time spent on Facebook. Also, most of my family has stupid politics that they think are brilliant, and it seems to have provided another forum for me and my father not to communicate. Maybe I'll use the time to perfect a portal and get Zuckerberg laid in the past so none of us have to deal with it.

Ugh, my boss finally did something to piss me off. I've usually been late on my timecard because I don't want to waste time on such a menial task when I have actual work to do, and it falls by the wayside. My old boss didn't really get on me about it, but he has, and I've tried to be better. I've submitted several timecards on time recently!

Yesterday, I was totally going to do it; hell, I was ready to do it a couple days early but it's weird to fill in time for days you haven't even worked yet, and I didn't want to go in twice. But it fell by the wayside, and I resolved to do it this morning.

Except I couldn't because it said it was approved by my manager. I asked him what was up with that. And he said he had approved it because it was due.

He approved my blank timecard.

I apologized and asked him to unapprove it so I could actually fill it out, and he did, but it looks like it's already gone through (even though I haven't approved it), and it'll probably be a whole ordeal now. Ugh. I guess I've learned my lesson or whatever, but what the fuck.

Speaking as a person who has to process payroll, I'm kinda on your manager's side there.

Yeah, I'm assuming that would guarantee you actually getting paid, so I can't see being angry at him for it.

I'm not sure if a blank timecard that says I worked 0 hours every day would guarantee I got paid. I was afraid it would do the opposite.

P-C, I'm gonna have to side with Scrappy on this one. The task might seem menial to you, but it is not menial to whomever processes payroll. People can't get paid if timecards aren't submitted on time. Your boss probably gets dinged if his direct reports are chronically late.

Every place that I've worked that had time cards, if we didn't get them in on time, then we didn't get paid that period. We'd get the money included in our next paycheck.

Uh yeah. We all have what may feel like tedious administrative tasks to perform, along with our other work tasks, that are necessary for the smooth running of our companies.

You don't want to know what the people down in the payroll office have been calling you, having to deal with late timecards.

P-C, it will probably come out of your PTO/vacation if it's coded that way, and HR/Payroll will manually have to go back in to change it. Which will be a pain in the ass. Also be prepared to not get a paycheck.