Chapter 7. The Employee Zone

At one point in my career, I was working for a company that required its employees to file weekly time sheets outlining how much time they spent working on various projects. The system was DOS-based (this was in the early 1990s), slow, unintuitive, and prone to frequent crashes. One person in the entire organization really knew how to use it, and her time was monopolized by clueless engineers (like yours truly) who couldn't make the thing perform. It got to the point that time entry was given a project code of its own, to account for the time spent accounting for our time!

One area in which many otherwise good companies ...

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