While I was employed by Schneider Electric (an energy conservation business) one of my many tasks was to collect “timecards” or “hours worked” by our large group of field project management people. All these people including myself were salaried employees but the accounting department wanted reports on actual hours worked and especially where. They said “for job costing” to apply hours as a job cost factor. Salaried employees are suppose to be exempt from reporting...
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My real place of employment. I spend about +50% of my time here.
Going Green
My employer Schneider Electric has picked a new location for our Dallas, Texas area office. Actually we are now in Carrollton, TX but are slated to move to a new facility in Coppell, TX which is the next town west of our present location. The lease is up where we are and Schneider wants to “walk the talk” in a much “greener” building than we presently live. So they are starting from the ground up....
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Update First a little computer update. If I believed in a jinx I wouldn’t post this but since I don’t… All my electronics seem to be running fine AND the storms have gone away (for awhile). All is peaceful in the Kautz communications center here in Texas. My Linux box is running perfectly with its’ new Fedora 17 OS. I am enjoying re-discovering how well I can do most daily work with just a free...
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After I got all my tax work done, I was feeling so good that I tackled getting my The Hobbyist Machine Store (THMS) bookkeeping in first class condition. I worked on that second most favorite thing to do (next to doing the taxes) until bedtime last night. I got it finished. I had the end of year (2011) balanced, closed and reports printed as needed for taxes, but I had let the first quarter of...
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