Most ridiculous time reporting process you had to do for a client?

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One client required us to log our activity in 15 minute intervals of all 8 hours. It was hard to bullshit things out for Fridays.

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Tape all receipts to white piece of paper, scan and email in

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D1 - I had to do that too! They actually wanted us to photocopy the receipts so they were all 8.5 X 11 and give them the hard copy. Email was too sophisticated...

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A receipt for every cent expensed. Wasted so much time with my four 85c coke zero's a day.

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Fuck NO!

D1 I had that too one client when I was at Deloitte. They wanted it even for a buck fifty coffee at breakfast, too. Brutal

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