Can I vent? Work related.

That actually IS my company's policy. You can't get your timesheet in by the deadline? You don't get paid. They can get it added to the next paycheck, but that's another two weeks.

I would sure be tempted to send out reminder emails to EVERYONE saying "person x, person y and person z your timesheets are still outstanding. Is there something you don't understand?"

Maybe a little public shaming would wake them up.

Petty? Yep. Passive aggressive? Sure. Bitchy? Kinda. But if it works, bonus.

If this happens every pay period, I think the above is a great solution. I’d bet it only takes once before you get all time sheets in a timely manner. Unfortunately folks know that you’ll hound them and babysit so it’s not going to ever be resolved until they suffer or are inconvenienced

This is my world, except weekly instead of monthly. Drives me batty. I totally get your frustration.

So welcome to my world. If time sheets are not completed we are required to pay for the hours they were scheduled to work. Then follow up "later" to make corrections. We have over 500 employees and pay every other Friday. My staff has 2 1/2 days to complete the entire process and upload payroll to the bank for direct deposits. I'm very nice to them at least every other week. ;-)

If it's the same person all the time, I would start copying their supervisor. I hate it when people don't respect my time. Once in a while is no big deal but when I have to go after someone for the same thing, I get pissed.

Yes, this is what I would do if allowed.  You shouldn't have to chase down people.

I had hired a new gal and one of her duties was time entry. If time didn't get in, payroll sent a report of those affected to the COO. Then the person's supervisor was sent an email. Even coming from the COO, it didn't seem to matter. This gal took it upon herself to make charts and graphs of the situation over a 4 week period. How many late timesheets for each supervisor, and how much time she spent attemptint to run down timesheets. She sent the info to all the suprvisors and many were put out that they were called out and what matter did it make because they got paid anyway. They would get a default 40 hours and if they had sick, overtime etc, that would be adjusted the next pay period with a manual entry of a payroll member. Shortly after she sent out the reports, the number of late timesheets slowly dwindled down to zero! She was commended by the COO for her improvement efforts resulting in cost savings and received a "star", worth a $500 gift card. (or she was able to mix and match in gift cards in $50 amounts)

I'm supposed to approve my time sheets every other Monday by 9 a.m. This past Monday was the first time in four years I didn't make the deadline (I was an hour late) and I felt horrible about it (husband had surgery, hospital had bad wifi, etc.).
How do people not feel horrible about it? I HATE causing necessary/extra work for other people.

Yep if I mess up that's one thing, but if they don't add in any missed time it will go on the next paycheck. Fortunately it's mostly automated but there are times people need to be paid for virtual meetings and things and I'm not stressing about hunting them down. They're all grown adults.

You are required by law to pay people who dont submit timesheets the hours that you can reasonably expect that they worked.

You can write them up for not following company policy, especially if they are chronic offenders.

You need to sit down with your supervisor and come up with rational consequences for them not doing it.

For me my consequence would be I don’t get paid on time. Period. My boss doesn’t have anything happen to them I just simply do not get my check on time.

You should not have to chase these down

I’ve never been in a position of processing other’s time sheets so I have no real advice. But I can 100% commiserate on being frustrated with adults who consistently fail in the simplest responsibilities. So frustrating to have to be a ‘mom’ and ‘nag’ other adults.

Almost every time I have to approve payroll I need to remind at least one of my staff to submit their timesheet. Guess what, they do payroll approval too, but for some reason cannot remember to submit their own on time. UGH.

I totally feel ya.