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I think it is in that old book, "Tales of computing folks" (a collection of a regular column of the good old Datamation magazine, bringing true-life stories) where the time tracking reports became so complex that the employees started filing half an hour a week, then increased to an hour a week, for filling out the forms. If I remember the story right, management started reacting to it when everyone spent an hour a week filling in the time sheets, realizing that the system had to be simplified. (Obviously, this was in the paper & pencil dates where no computerized system limited you to a specific set of project numbers.)
My current company makes no real use of the time sheet; the only reason for collecting them is to prove to the authorities that we are not working more overtime than allowed by public regulations. (That is obviously a joke, when hours worked are registred manually - if we come close to the limit, we can just push a few hours over to the following period.)
The effect is that they spend no resources on making a decent reporting system. E.g. you have to fill in the fields of a form in a given sequence, otherwise the system will barf. You cannot enter fractional hours using a comma rather than a full stop (in Germanic languages, comma is the standard), no matter what you have specified in the language/region setting of your PC. If you happen to hit the wrong activity code when clicking in the pulldown menu, you may spend quite some time, and dozens of manual operations, to have that entry cancelled and to reenter the values using the correct activity code. For all but a standard, run off the mill, work week, you may easily spend half an hour filling in the forms. -- And then, knowing that they will use it for absolutely nothing, is the most frustrating part of it!
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My yoga instructors name is Matthew.
But we just call him Yoga Matt! 
Sorry, it's friday. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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That was a bit of a stretch: yoga-ta try harder!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Wait till you see me in my yoga pants. THEN you can talk about a stretch! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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The worst part is that for some reason you thought this deserved to be written in a bigger font 
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Also shows how well-planned this site is; you can change the size, not the type. As such, you never see a post in Comic Sans 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Yeah, I guess you're right, won't happen. Never ever. Certainly not in those annoying colors! 
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Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Wow, who knew, from now on, please post the CCC like this to make it that bit more difficult.
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That's because all the old geezers tend to relax here in the Lounge. Wouldn't want to strain their eyes!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Well, yoga's all about stretching, so fonts are no exception...
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Woman smashed a sled around the edge of stadium (6)
TGIF , so easy one. I expect max 5 mins
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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I was literally just about to give up then something clicked right at the last second...
damsel = woman
da sel = smashed (anagram of) "a sled"
around
m = edge (last letter) of "stadium"
modified 19-Oct-18 7:04am.
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Yeah you are correct Sir.
Back to you on Monday.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Quote: CCC 19 June 18
HAPPY
(birthday to me...)
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... ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) sake.
Herself is watching a vet show on TV, where the main man is visiting an Alpaca farm, to help with a pregnant Alpaca.
And the process of an Alpaca giving birth is called ... wait for it ... "unpacking"[^]
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. That's worse than TotD! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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modified 19-Oct-18 4:37am.
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How is the compression rate before the little stinker is unpacked? Does mother nature use simple run-length encoding[^] or a more elaborate algorithm?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
modified 19-Oct-18 7:59am.
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Dude that's a pretty lama joke.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Interesting that when talking about humans, the process of getting pregnant in the first place starts with "unzip"...
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LOL!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No worse than when the wife says It might be a little cool at the park, I'll pack an Alpaca sweater... 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Is an alpaca with alopecia an unpaca.
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Is () a Smooth Operator?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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are you some sort of Sade-ist?
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I just thought I was oldist, but there seem to be other candidates.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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