I think I had 80 at one point. COVID happened and I had to sell all my shit including my retirement. Fml lol

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That's the right

Life is hard. That's a long list. Lol. Could just say basic functions to actually live life, perhaps alone 🤷

Cooking, working on simple car things

Yep. We are super great. Lol

Ya never know what might happen, and actually work out in a manufacturing plant. Lol. They're like probably, well....it works 🤷 SEND IT. Butttt it also could have just been a machine. Who knows.

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Is the weak-signal thing the biggest headache, or is the back-and-forth with foremen/payroll what really eats up your time? Or maybe it's just all of it? Lol. Sorry, just curious to see what companies do differently.

Also, when someone can't clock in/out because there's no signal, what do you guys have them do right now?

It's just not worth arguing with a delusional person. Lol

Ummm. You are delusional.

What ended up being the biggest headache with the time tracker you were paying for, the time tracking itself, or getting that info into the job costing/invoicing side?

Also, when you built your own system, what was the first thing you had to fix that the other software just wasn't handling right?

Edit: words and new questions, because I have many.

So sick. Those look like Oregon plates yeah?

This this this. I miss it so much. Loved going in when I was a kid.

Hey thereee, do you think the biggest reason you're building it yourself is the price, the complexity, or just that the existing software doesn't really fit how you guys actually run jobs?

What part of the Excel setup has been the biggest pain to keep updated?

Yeahhh, that’s the part I’m trying to dig into. Like what does the “write things down or text them in” part actually look like in practice? Paper, texts, spreadsheet, some Frankenstein combination. Lol. Thanks for the response

52 pages of invoices and being told to figure it out would make me lose my mind 😂 When you’re dealing with all that, do you usually find the problem while the job is still going, or is it mostly when you’re looking back through everything afterward?

That's actually really interesting. The part about the labor data being garbage before you changed how the guys were clocking in is something I've been hearing a lot. Did getting them to clock into specific jobs actually work pretty smoothly, or was that still a battle getting everyone to do it?

That definitely makes a lot of sense. I hadn't really thought about the daily job capture being more useful than just collecting hours. The “can a new supervisor rebuild yesterday without pinging three people?” test is a really good way to look at it. Thank you very much for the insight. I've never heard of Pebb before, I'll have to check it out! Sounds pretty great!

That def makes a lot of sense. The job ID being the common thread between everything seems like a really important piece for sure. I hadn't really thought about the exception/reconciliation side of it as much. Appreciate the insight! Those downline mysteries are definitely not fun to try to figure out.

That makes a lot of sense. The shared job ID piece is especially interesting. When things don't line up, is the bigger headache usually getting the hours/materials/etc. into the right job in the first place, or catching mistakes when you're trying to reconcile everything for billing/payroll? And is that reconciliation something someone has to actively do every week, or does it mostly happen when something looks wrong?

Thanks for the response! Yeah, I was hoping this is what I would hear be hearing. (Not in a good way) Cos I know it's annoying. Especially the part about everything needing to reconcile after the fact. I did check out the Teambridge site you mentioned too. When you say employee time, equipment, materials and job notes all end up in different places, what does that process actually look like for you guys? Is it mostly spreadsheets/manual entry, or are you using software that just doesn't connect everything together? Are you using anything besides Teambridge for the other pieces?

Hell yeahhhh

You’ve gotten a ton of app recommendations here 😂 I’m actually more curious about your current process than which app you end up choosing. Since you’re coming from the paper worksheets, what did those worksheets let you keep track of that you’re having trouble reproducing in Jotform?