>By the way, when I swamped the investigator with documentation
>on my work with Scialo, he somberly warned that I might have
>faked it in these computer-fakery days. Nice, that skepticism:
>he's absolutely correct about what these machines can virtual.
this is an issue that comes up again and again. The 'actual' time record is
a legal document that cannot be forged (I always hear this, but it is
unclear what authority polices this: i.e., the State Board of Ed [in NY]
will pull your licence, the IRS will come after you for income, whatever,
and some clients write into contracts audit rights of timesheets. Some
offices have instituted fully electronic timesheets and recordkeeping, so
the reports are the only available documentation.
Funny thing is though, is it any harder to forge a timesheet on paper than
it is electronically? (well, yes, in that you need a number of pens and
hands to do so on paper).
no one wants to talk of why this is so touchy, that archies flaunt every
available labor and employment law available, so we talk in vague terms
about what is a freelancer and a professional employee and need time
records to bill, but don't want all that bothersome overtime showing, or
that no withholding or taxes were paid, no.
on the other hand, mealy mouthed clients chip away at your fee basis, then
get angry when the work gets turned around quickly and billed 100%, and all
of a sudden its I-want-to-see-a-time-report, to which I want to say, piss
off, you can't negotiate, so its your loss. Cause then they want to bill
the next job hourly, and guess what? Even if the numbers go down, its time
for the razor and scissors, snip, snip, I pay my lawyer and accountant ten
times this so I don't have to pay you
[sunday times mag some weeks ago: Ernest & Young, Acct's, handling the
Barney's bankruptcy, billed 700 hours to the tune of $110K for _preparing
their invoice_ , which was a cool $3MM]
the signature below was forged
nic musolino
10019
>on my work with Scialo, he somberly warned that I might have
>faked it in these computer-fakery days. Nice, that skepticism:
>he's absolutely correct about what these machines can virtual.
this is an issue that comes up again and again. The 'actual' time record is
a legal document that cannot be forged (I always hear this, but it is
unclear what authority polices this: i.e., the State Board of Ed [in NY]
will pull your licence, the IRS will come after you for income, whatever,
and some clients write into contracts audit rights of timesheets. Some
offices have instituted fully electronic timesheets and recordkeeping, so
the reports are the only available documentation.
Funny thing is though, is it any harder to forge a timesheet on paper than
it is electronically? (well, yes, in that you need a number of pens and
hands to do so on paper).
no one wants to talk of why this is so touchy, that archies flaunt every
available labor and employment law available, so we talk in vague terms
about what is a freelancer and a professional employee and need time
records to bill, but don't want all that bothersome overtime showing, or
that no withholding or taxes were paid, no.
on the other hand, mealy mouthed clients chip away at your fee basis, then
get angry when the work gets turned around quickly and billed 100%, and all
of a sudden its I-want-to-see-a-time-report, to which I want to say, piss
off, you can't negotiate, so its your loss. Cause then they want to bill
the next job hourly, and guess what? Even if the numbers go down, its time
for the razor and scissors, snip, snip, I pay my lawyer and accountant ten
times this so I don't have to pay you
[sunday times mag some weeks ago: Ernest & Young, Acct's, handling the
Barney's bankruptcy, billed 700 hours to the tune of $110K for _preparing
their invoice_ , which was a cool $3MM]
the signature below was forged
nic musolino
10019