Beer in exchange for agency timesheets
May 2 2012, 10:55 am | | 9 Comments
Filling out timesheets is mandatory in most agencies, but it doesn’t have to be a boring process.
See how JWT and Casa in Brasil got their employees to do their timesheets and feel happy about it. This idea may catch on!
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Lucky Brasil to be in economic good times. Our GM’s from the school of just do it or you are fired you replaceable piece of shxt. And that pretty much works for most of us.
@pippa,
Don’t think they look all that happy to me.
What I think happened is that they always used to get beer anyway, but now they’ve locked the beer up until you do your timesheets.
Either that, or this is just an agency chasing metal, and there really is no magic timesheet beer fridge device.
Cool idea though. I just don’t believe that any agency anywhere in the world (especially Brazil) locks its beer up until 5pm Friday.
Once when involved in agency management I informed the staff that I had lost the April time sheets and asked them to do them again. Most reported working Good Friday, Easter Monday and Anzac day. Only one or two bore a faint resemblance to the originals I compared them to, and my fellow directors were easily persuaded to drop the silly practice. If used for billing they entrench the notion that agencies sell time (like prostitutes) when in fact they sell ideas.
Pay me more and I’ll do my time sheets! Simple!
Pay me more and I’ll do my time sheets! Simple!
Beyonce if you did your time sheets you would be paid more..that’s how it works.
Umm Groucho – I wonder if your staff would accept salaries based on ideas sold, me thinks not….
Of coarse we sell time – like lawyers, hookers and doctors…
@Real life in my experience the absolutel fantastic ideas often come quicky. The ones that take hours or days to grind out are often crap. Perverse isn’t it that if you charge honestly by the hour at say $500 ph the good idea costs $500 and the bad one $5000. You would think a business which purports to be creative would find a better way to charge. Perhaps one that really does reflect real life.
Break down of a creative’s timesheet
Stumble in half pissed 8.15
Facebook 8.15-9 am
Youtube (researching) 9-11am
Creative meeting 11am – 12noon.
Long boozy lunch 12noon to 2am
Throw some crap together on photoshop 2-4pm
4pm -5pm beer nibbles and waffling shit.
That’s pretty much the break down for SE Asian agencies I’ve been working at foir the last two years.