No Time Sheets? I Say Paddle ‘Em!

July 14, 2008 • 4:06 pm • POSTED BY dcilli

 

Before we opened this place I worked at a handful of agencies. And they all dealt with the same problem … time sheets. The agency perspective is always something along the lines of, “Please everyone, we need you to do your time sheets so we can bill our clients accurately and on-time so all of us can get paid”. And the employee perspective always goes a little something like this, “But Boss, I would love to do my time sheets, but I am so busy creating awesome work that I just can’t find the time”. It was the age old agency conundrum that seemed to have no answer … until a 9’ x 5’ piece of plywood dropped directly out of heaven and landed in common area. The Kettler TOPSTAR XL ping pong table is one of the greatest things to ever happen to our agency. Our design hipsters have been drawn to time on the table like it’s a cold can of PBR or whatever the kids are drinking now-a-days. That’s when our Operations Manager, Gretchen Schottin, saw her opportunity and pounced. A new rule was put into effect about five weeks ago, No Time Sheets – No Ping Pong! And with that the agency has erased one of advertising’s time old questions. The love of ping pong has proven much stronger than the time sheet. So if you are an agency owner or thinking about starting your own agency and can’t get people to hand in their time sheets … I say paddle ‘em!