Steve for Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Have you ever noticed how much of the world economy is devoted to counting?

We count how many things we have.

That's called inventory.

We count who owns what.

That's called money.

The entire banking industry counts other people's money and takes a big chunk of it as their fee? That's called money. The entire banking industry counts other people's

money and takes a big chunk of it as their fee. That's called finance. We count time on

timesheets, purchases on expense reports, and desperate housewives on TV. But counting quickly

gets repetitive. That's why we have totals. We like counting, but we love totals. And sometimes we need to count the same

thing in different ways to give it to our total loving bosses. That's the quandary that Kim finds herself

in. She wrote in asking, how do I track my time in a cross-functional cross-department organization?

Kim, welcome to my fantasy world.

In my fantasy world, you work in the Human Resources Department of a company that produces two things,

silly string and bouncy balls.

You have two major functional areas, accounting and R&D.

Your job is to provide counseling to the employees to help them come to grips

with the fact that their abusive vice president isn't going to be fired anytime soon

because she'd just married the CEO's son.

These are the counseling sessions you jokingly call your hope-destroying sessions.

Only you're not joking, are you?

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