Shark Tank: Timing is everything

14.04.2006

"Sunday afternoon we go to the plant to check the time clocks so that our third shift that starts at 8 p.m. doesn't have any pay issues.

"Of course, the clocks haven't been changed."

The rest of the day is a flurry of activity. The plant's netadmin spends the afternoon and evening updating time clocks all over the plant's three buildings. Then he calls someone from another local facility at home, goes to that plant and updates its clocks as well.

It's a long, long Sunday, but disaster is averted, and that makes it all worthwhile, fish figures.

Then he walks in Monday morning. "When I get to the office, our receptionist is talking to someone as I walk by: 'The time on all the clocks is off by an hour.'