Matt Ristel

I don't know.

It's a good question.

No one's ever, as many times I've told that story, no one has ever asked me that.

And I don't know.

Uh, but I just, and I didn't want to honestly, maybe whatever reason I was working on something else, but I stood up, I walked over, open up the Manila folder.

looked at her time sheet and looked at my watch and it's like, no way she had given herself like 15 minutes, which you don't think is a big deal.

Small business, super tight margins.

And not everybody was as honest as she was.

I did a little recon mission the next day where I went sat in front of my store truck.

Everyone left it for lunch.

I went and walked in and checked everyone's time sheets.

And I had a pretty big issue on my hand.

So walked to Office Depot thinking it'd be an easy problem to solve, but I wanted to sit at one location and see all my employees on the clock at one time on my computer and see, you know, where they were working, et cetera, what they were working on.

And the lady said, oh, I have the perfect solution for you.

She walked me back to the aisle and she handed me like this old metal thing that you stick a piece of paper into that goes like, you know, cha-ching.

I said, well, that's, you know, it's not going to work.

What year was this, by the way?

That was 2005.

Okay.

It's back before SaaS was a word, back before the cloud was really a word.