So glad monday is my last day at my job.

Got a message from mgmt through teams chat today, to paraphrase: we are making our awful time entry system even worse. We are switching to microsoft projects next week for all project. So you'll need to enter in your company wide time sheet with 40 hrs every week, separated by project, then go to a seperate url for each project you work on and enter in the hours you worked on for each individual task given to you by the project manager. There will be no way of easily seeing that the hours in microsoft projects add up to equal the hours entered into the company wide time sheet.

I had an employer try to pull that shit on me.

I spent about 4 hours a week on time tracking.

I know this because I tracked the hours for time tracking into a dedicated bucket specifically for them to see.

If I'm spending 4 hours on it, that means the other 1000 people are doing it.

This means an average of 4000 hours of productivity is lost per week.

Company wants to spend $2 million dollars a week on tracking time, who am I to judge?

Once it became apparent that it was costing them so much they tried to tell me I didn't need to be so detailed. So I asked them, "is this a performance metric?" Of course it was. So naturally it's in my best interest to show the scope and impact of my contributions.

When they realized that there were others in the org catching on, they relegated and the engineering part of the company went back to the way it was.

Don't let them push you around, sometimes you have to make new rules up in their games to get what you want.

@sariel the shitter is, we dont get hours for time tracking. All 40 hours a week must be billable hours to a customer.

But, hopefully the grass is greener come Tuesday

@shoogknight

Sounds like modern slavery.

@shoogknight it will be. If not, there's other greener pastures.

We have a similarly complicated System, however we have a dedicated ticket for "administrative tasks" We are allowed to book 5% of our time on this and "training/education". So i I booked my time booking time on administrative I could do less trainings or self study or similar things.

No time sheets at this place!