• Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      I actually did this at my previous job. They wanted me to time track everything I did to the minute so I started adding time spent tracking my time. Boss hated it but couldn’t really do anything to get me to stop

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        3 months ago

        to the minute. that sounds like you would be in a time tracking loop. I keep track to the half hour but mainly as that is a convenient calendar segmentation.

      • Kojichan@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Got any tips for how to keep track when you flip between tasks so often? Program or app or paper and pen tracking?

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          I made a spreadsheet where one column would timestamp each row when the task note column was edited. Then another column that just checks time between timestamps to tell me how long was spent on a task. Another column was used for formatting so I could quickly copy/paste everything into the system at the end of the day

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        3 months ago

        It’s not malicious. If the client wants to waste your time, you bill for the time wasted.

        Anyway, my preference is still to run away.

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    3 months ago

    Had that once. Never again.

    We had meetings with several people about 30min tasks being booked using the wrong category, despite both being part of the same budget. Absolute insanity.

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      My favorite was getting reamed because you put 30 minutes over the estimated hours on a task.

      It made task accounting a nightmare as you’d have to dump hours onto unrelated task whenever something inevitably took longer than expected.

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        Such incredible bullshit. Tracking is to learn and see where things go right and wrong.

        The fact manglement then puts the onus on the employee to cook te books for them is bizarre. Once tasks go over budget you can have a talk about it in a retrospective or something. But half hours… makes no sense.

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          Yeah it’s why at later jobs I advocate for complexity points and don’t do consulting anymore.

          Tying money to hours spent on a task just encourages all the wrong behavior.

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    3 months ago

    It’s simple: Either the project management team keeps the customer away from my time tracking or I’ll keep my time away from that customer

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    One time when I was contracting and my company was in the middle of a merger I had to do triple time keeping; client, old company, new company, all on different systems, two of which were ancient hr software from the 90s for some reason still in use 5 years ago. Its at that point I just started blanket logging 6 hours per day on whatever project I could think of at the moment.