Trouble with my TPS reports

[Govtgirl]

Your Federal tax dollars at work.....

So today, we were just informed that not only do we have to give a weekly update on how many hours we spent on each job we worked on, we have to break it down by day and hour; and doing what exactly. Of course, management has not given us any digital tool in order to complete this.

If I were putting bon-bons on a conveyor belt like in "I Love Lucy", this would be one thing. But I'm a professional level worker and manage multiple complex projects. They are not cut and dried things, and now I will be spending easily 30 minutes a day documenting the specific tasks and time on work that I am doing, instead of working on the actual projects themselves!

So, instead of putting "4 hours on "Project A" on Monday", I have to put for Monday "2 hours printing books for Project A on Monday, 1 hour researching files for Project A, 1 hour answering emails for Project A.....well you get the idea. And of course, this has to match up with the other time reports on other servers that don't "talk" to each other

I am a person that works my keester off, multi-tasks like mad, and now they have made it a zillion times harder to be productive. The people that clunk along, wander the halls aimlessly, and can only handle one job at a time will have it much easier than the ones that actually are busy all the time, zipping along and getting things done.

My husband reminds me this is why the movie "Office Space" is so popular

 

[spyrosmom]

I'd put "15 mins non productive filing out form" "5 mins non productive reviewing form" "5 minutes bathroom" "2 mins writing down bathroom break" "3 mins at copier making more copies of form for tomorrow"

Nan

 

[caseysmomgo]

How frustrating for you!

Take care and hang in there!!

 

[jonahnah]

Don't attorneys, accountants & most consultants have to track their time by client & task to the quarter hour? I certainly did when I was a CPA back in the 80s. I don't think it's changed.

Yeah, it's a pain in the butt, but it's not uncommon or unreasonable.

It quickly becomes apparent who's producing what during the day so I think it's to your benefit as a hard worker as the slackers will have the least to show for their hours at work.

 

[syzygy314]

Why does this post make me want to quote lines from "Office Space?"

 

[Govtgirl]

....It quickly becomes apparent who's producing what during the day so I think it's to your benefit as a hard worker as the slackers will have the least to show for their hours at work.

But that's not what happens The slackers just fudge numbers to cover themselves, and tack on the 2 hours they spent yikkity-yakking onto the job they were working on.

I see it every day. In fact, the slackers don't even account for the true paperwork time, they falsely assign it all to budgeted jobs. And the bosses never question it because they are happy the numbers add up, even though they KNOW they are a lie!

 

[ldy_solana]

But that's not what happens The slackers just fudge numbers to cover themselves, and tack on the 2 hours they spent yikkity-yakking onto the job they were working on.

I see it every day. In fact, the slackers don't even account for the true paperwork time, they falsely assign it all to budgeted jobs. And the bosses never question it because they are happy the numbers add up, even though they KNOW they are a lie!

i was about to make the same argument. unless you have somebody over your shoulder, nobody ever really knows what you are working on for how long. it doesn't matter what job you are one ppl always find a way to get around doing work but yet seem to look good to the boss.

LOL about office space.

kassia

 

[BuffyR]

Yeah, tell me about it. I'm a lawyer and we bill by the 10ths of an hour. Keeping track of time is like second nature to me at this point. Still hate it though. BTW, love the reference to "office space". I love, love, love that movie.