Timesheets; our place of work was "progressive" and eliminated the "time-clock" punch-card and let us peons take responsibility for attempting to fill out the most confusing, snafu piece of paperwork you can imagine. Then, payroll had the gall to threaten disciplinary measures when we failed to complete the "time-sheet" to their precise directions. I fought back with...........

The Time Sheet Proclamation

It has the makings of new history
A sis-boom-bah directive,
Designed to guide the working class
In ways that are corrective.

It involves some mild coercion
In the name of reprimand,
If you screw up two or three times
They slap you on the hand.

Should you blatantly defy
The time sheet proclamation,
You might as well stay home
And enjoy your termination.

Instead I recommend
A working class solution,
Let's have a show of solidarity
With a time sheet revolution.

If each and every one of us
Submits a daily error,
The agents of the payroll
Will collapse in hapless terror.

After firing every one of us
In a show-of-force command,
The administrators, in their glory
Will watch the hospital disband,
And the leaders of our community
Will throw them from their seats,
When they discover that the issue
Was all about time sheets.

Fibril_late; 5/93