Ok. First of all, I am glad this thread is here. I've laughed and sympathized a bunch because of it. I'm also glad because there really is just nowhere else to go with this. Here's my story.
Today, February 13th, 2012, at 11:13AM, I was told that there was an error on my timesheet. From December. Of 2010. What happened was that I had inadvertantly marked a 30 minute meeting as "billable" (where we charge the client) instead of "not billable" (where we don't.) Naturally, they actually billed the client correctly, but, we can't have a mismatch of the records in case of audit. So, it's up to me to fix it.
I fix it, and attempt to "approve" it - entering in a password.
Quote:
***WARNING! ERROR! You may not enter in more than eight hours of holiday time for any given pay period.***
And, I cannot fix it. See, unfortunately, my company fails to realize that not only did they give us Christmas and New Year's Eve off, but, that those two days both fell within the same 14 day period. (Because they haven't been six days apart FOR ALL OF ETERNITY.)
My boss, the awesome and patient person that she is, contacted "Corporate." And, lucky for me, Corporate is generous, and they deemed it acceptable to allow those two days to fall when they did.
For ten minutes. I was allowed ten minutes in which I could fix the timesheet and approve it without the error. Seven minutes later, I still couldn't fix it... FINALLY!! It's done!
At that point, it was 11:45AM. Thank God I was able to rectify the (almost) theft of thirty minutes from 2010. And, it only took me 30 minutes (of time that's being billed to the client, naturally) to do in 2012!
tl;dr
I didn't quite steal 30 minutes from a client in 2010. To make everything look nice, I had to steal 30 minutes from a client today. And I've done this exactly as the company wanted me to.
THAT really grinds my gears.