Wow, yea, umm, do you happen to work in the same place I work? I'm salaried at an hourly rate (meaning, if I take leave w/o pay, I get docked the same rate as if I was earning an hourly rate, but for all other intents and purposes, we are salary).
We have security cards to get into the building and into our rooms and into the server room. All of our time off requests are done by downloading a PDF from our intranet site, fill out the information on the PDF, print it out to sign and hand in to our supervisor...who then signs and hands it up the chain to the person responsible for typing it into a computer. Then, instead of taking that information and (remember we are salary?) calculating how much to pay us each check..we have to manually write with a pen our hours on a pre-printed weekly time-card. AND, if that's not enough, for billing we have to enter into our billing software what hours we worked, and who we bill to (if not billable, we bill back to our own department). We then must print a completed week from the billing system which is then compared to our hand-filled in time card before it moves up the chain to the same person that enters our time off requests into a computer. They then enter the time cards into the computer and blah blah blah..not sure about the rest of the process from there...but eventually, on payday, we get our checks.
WTF!
Note: I work as a programmer for our IT department...for a government entity.... and I did not design or have anything to do with creating this wacky process...
At least we are moving to a completely revised system soon...