If Three is Company, What is Four?

At the TSheets Time Tracking Software headquarters, FOUR newbies in the first quarter of 2013 translates to TSheets platinum support sparkling brighter, the Geekery is exploding, and epic customer experiences are on the horizon [applause]! We want to officially announce these fab four to the TSheets Team: 1. Jennifer Hetherington, VP of Marketing 2. Nate [...]

Looking at text files – less is more

When you sysadmin a linux box, at some point you’re invariably going to be poking around in a shell, looking at text files. At TSheets, we log just about everything under the sun. This makes it easy for us to answer exactly what was going on at any particular time for every user that uses [...]

TSheets Halftime Show: New Features For Our Fans

Super Bowl XLVII without professional football players would be TSheets without employees. It wouldn’t exist. For that reason, our team’s game plan is simple: provide a time tracking tool that employees love. We’ve all read the stats: “Disengaged employees are costing the United States $370 billion annually.” And “It looks like the tide is shifting [...]

What Do 5 O’clock, Chewbacca, and A Belly Laugh Have In Common?

You heard right: The TSheets crew has a new feature brewing. Custom sounds. At 5 o’clock when you’re hitting the button to clock out for the day, why not hear a welcomed noise? It could be a few bars from “Hallelujah,” the sound choice of our VP of Marketing. Or two seconds of “Chewbacca,” like our CEO [...]

Understanding Linux system load averages

Here at TSheets, we have a lot of custom monitoring scripts and alerting tools that keep us in the know on a relatively real-time basis as to the health and responsiveness of our infrastructure. Every once in a while we’ll be alerted that something on one of our servers is not quite right. When this [...]

Holiday Wishes from the TSheets Crew – No Foolin’

You would think it was April Fools Day around the TSheets office but, as usual, we’re celebrating the Christmas season in crazy TSheets style. The joke’s on CEO, Matt Rissell, (3rd from the right) but the message is genuine: Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays/Seasons Greetings to all our valued customers from all of us at TSheets! Here it [...]

Timestamp – The Devil is in the Details

The old adage “The devil is in the details,” couldn’t be more true when referencing TSheets.  Why is this?  While others use a simple stopwatch approach (keeping track of duration only), TSheets uses a detailed timestamp for all clock-ins/outs and job code switches, something that appears simple on the surface, but that is actually quite [...]

My First Two Weeks at TSheets

So, I have been told that I am very forward, upfront & sometimes take too much ownership in projects that I dive into.  I think it actually worked out to my benefit this time. When Matt & I started our “off-Twitter” conversation, our very first phone call we agreed that we would be totally honest [...]

Hot new look at TSheets

Celebrating the new look of TSheets.com, we decided to take a trip down memory lane, aka the waybackmachine at archive.org, and have a look at where we’ve come from.

500 Clams

500 Clams. Smackers. Bones. Loot. Booty. Mullah. However you want to call it, Matt Rissell and Co. over at TSheets are men of their word, and I’ve got the cold hard cash in my pretty little hands. While I’ve already mentally spent that reward, I think the MORE rewarding point of the entire ‘are you [...]