The sign in sheet

Oh how I love baby sitting my co-workers, and being baby sat for that matter.

Mr. O's new obsession is checking the sign in sheet and then watching you to see if you are really there the whole time you say you are. NOTE: the sign in sheet in mention was for "knowing where people are when they are out of the office by checking one place." This is not the case. This used to be an obsession of April's and I guess now Mr. O has taken over her duties, probably because he has nothing else better to do (when you can't use a computer your life becomes full of petty, irrelevant details because you can't check the time that we all enter in the computer).

Firstly, Mr. O is a creep and has been known to sit in the dark in the office to watch people coming in and then running up to the sign in sheet to check to the minute if it is the same as he thinks. Another fun game is when you forget to sign in and he puts whatever time he thinks you got in as your 'in' time. Or when you leave at 5pm and April or Mr. O runs up to the time sheet to make sure you have been there the full 8 hour day (this does not take into account when people work from home, on their way in, or over lunch). Tantrum to follow...like stomping feet tantrum.

This sign in sheet has a redundant amount of information on it, much more than any other place I have worked. Oh and did I mention that everything I do is in my shared Outlook calender (which Mr. O can not understand how to use). I get calls constantly about where I am even if I mention the meetings a hundred times and it is before I get into work AND IT IS ON MY CALENDER. The sign in sheet should be done away with it is just pissing myself and my co-workers off and if you can't trust your employees to come in and get their work done then get punch cards. Oh wait that would be stupid too because none of us are hourly!!!

eHow.com:
Sign-in sheets can be used to track volunteers, meeting attendees, patients at a doctor's office and clients at salons, schools and so forth. Sign-in sheets make it to record who is present, when they arrived and the reason for the visit. Sign-in sheets also are a record; they can be preserved in a binder for future reference.

Hmmmm... so nothing about baby sitting and employees... strange.

This sign in sheet is going to drive me nuts! I will have to pay attention to all weather advisory or fire alarms because if I don't sign out, there could be a tantrum!