r/wallstreetbets • u/witness_this_ • Feb 10 '25

Gain I don’t even know what Monday.com does.

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u/facedownbootyuphold Feb 10 '25 edited Feb 10 '25

That's exactly what it ended up being for us. Our designers and engineers had to fill out time sheets and project sheets, stuff that PMs should be keeping track of, but didn't. It was like a crutch for useless managers and the work just gets put on the actual producers.

Ownership and others liked it because it showed them how to scope and bill projects in the future, but I don't think anyone ever took into account all the cost that went into the people who filled it out at the behest of actual billable work and deliverables. On top of that, managers spent more time reminding everyone to fill in their project sheets than doing anything productive themselves. Corporate America.

I started my own company and we all use Slack for managing projects, it's so much simpler and more robust than Monday for our workflow. Nowadays I would look at any company that uses Monday and question the quality of their output.

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u/Heavy-Basis-83 Feb 10 '25

Sounds like the “TPS” reports from Office Space.

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u/danielv123 Feb 11 '25

I have 5 different timesheets I need to fill out. All of them require a variation of how long I worked for that day.

One is the number of hours, once by project and once overall, with a comment per day.

One is the number of hours, but input in a form that gets submitted once a week, where the whole sheet needs a comment for which project its for.

Once which is start and end time for the day, with length of lunch break.

One which is start and end time for the day with some arcane project number and its input in a 40 column wide SAP form so it always sucks.

One which is just an excel sheet. That one isn't so bad.

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u/adjason Feb 11 '25

So it's a journal