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Not On My Watch: Adios, Timesheets

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But all the clocks in the city

began to whirr and Chime…

…O let not time deceive you

You can not conquer time…

…In headaches and in worry vaguely life leaks away

and time will have his fancy

tomorrow or today.


You wouldn’t have caught W.H. Auden filling out a grid at the end of his week, would you?

Almost two months have gone by here at BMB now, and whilst we’ve been knee deep in briefs, Corona and free pizza, the other day we said to each other – ‘hang on, wait, something’s missing.’

Rage.

Your basic, grid-induced, incandescent rage.

You know. You’re there, doing data entry under cover of darkness – inputting numbers into an inept intranet programme beset by I.T. glitches from all sides, trying to extract codes from your inbox, trying to remember what you did six weeks ago, wishing you’d not left it ’til now, only for the whole thing to then crash and populate itself with the mysterious word ‘NULL’ in every box.

Which is just a really a long-winded way of me (Lol) saying that my most favouritest things about working at BMB is:

WE DON’T HAVE TO FILL OUT TIMESHEETS. HURRAH.

Words cannot express how happy this makes me. But I will try nonetheless.

Basically, it’s blinking marvellous. They have a different system of working out the agency’s time, which works much better. The result is that now, we get to come in and DO the work, rather than RECORD the work.

And less time is spent wondering how to record the time it takes you to record your time, and other interesting paradoxes.

I’m know I’m not alone in my phobia of timesheets. I once worked with a creative who actually used to PAY his partner to fill his out for him.

Anyway, rant over. Simply put, BMB, we salute you. THANK YOU.

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As we mentioned in a blog a few weeks ago, BMB have made everyone partners now, just like John Lewis.

So exciting is the news that it made it into the Evening Standard last night. Or a little part of it did anyway.

To reflect this a few of us at ‘Beattie McGuinness Bungay’ thought the initial based agency name should be in keeping with their new ethos of inclusivity and reflect their 76 new partners. Introducing the longest ever as agency name which has each and every partner’s name in it. We made a new sign to reflect it:


Getting it up outside the agency was quite a challenge. Especially when we realised our ladder was about five metres too short. Luckily a friendly window cleaner was wafted in, like an angel from heaven, and offered to lend us his industrial sized ladder and balancing expertise. Thank you lovely window cleaner man! He’s the guy on the left.

We also put it up in the board room in time for the Evening Standard interview.


It’s going to be a little expensive each time we have new joiners…