I'm going to try recording my hours each day somewhere to make it easy when it comes due. Thanks for the suggestions!

Luckily, I was able to get this timecard sorted out. Ironically, it was one of the easier timecards since half it was vacation.

P-C, if you are on an iphone, have evernote or dropbox, and have the Drafts app, I have an even easier solution for you to log your hours.

I am on Android, alas. Although I feel like there must be some sort of "Keep track of your hours" app to make things really simple.

I hate my attendant timesheet. Every year there is more busywork on it. Because apparently frauds don't know their own initials. @@. But, as they say, all in the game.

I know it's menial work to you, PC, but to someone else it is their real work.

That is a good point to remember, thanks.

Sunil, fill out the time card at the beginning of the pay period. If you have to take unexpected leave, then go back and fix it. It's not weird to input hours you haven't worked. I'm pretty sure your boss won't approve it until the end, to ensure you've actually worked those hours. Then the task is done, and your name will no longer be taken in vain by HR/Payroll.

Oddly at my company, although we have various project codes, we have to complete the time sheets two days before the end of the period so out bosses can approve. Which makes no sense to me, but whatever.

I still get paid regardless, though. The money is directly deposited whether or not I've submitted my timecard.

I am absolutely awful at timecards. I also only report 8 hours a day no matter if I'm over. The codes don't cover everything I do, so there's a pretty large fudge factor, and that system is my nemesis. They want it weekly, but they need it monthly and I'm always down to the wire with no excuse.

I need to try daily until I can trust myself with weekly.

p-c, I hate doing timesheets too. I get paid salary based on hourly, and comp time instead of OT, so, it's always going to be 40, since comp time is generally not approved. After 13 years of salary and not time card, it wasn't part of my routine. I downloaded the free version of HoursTracker app (which is available for Android), and within a couple days, I paid the few bucks for the paid version (no ads). You create accounts, and log in times for each account/project. And on the iPhone, it has a badge showing you clocked in on a project. Which is handy at the end of the day, when you check your emails, or start your music, you can see "oh crap, gotta time out". And now that I'm doing book-on-tape for the drive, I clock in as I stop the book, and clock out as I restart it for the ride home. Check out hourstrackerapp.com