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I feel your pain. A few weeks ago I was even asked to track my time in a clients system. First thought was "but I send you invoices with my time in them." Seco
by apercu 11y ago
I feel your pain. A few weeks ago I was even asked to track my time in a clients system. First thought was "but I send you invoices with my time in them."
Second thought was, "why don't you pay your staff to enter time from my invoices?"
Third thought was "I'll have to bill you a stupid hourly rate to enter my time in your system."
Right now I'm stuck at the third thought and they've agreed, but I haven't started doing it yet and don't want to. Their systems are their systems and mine are mine.
- rwallace 11y agoI sympathize, but honestly, the fourth thought - that you don't want to do the data entry the client has agreed to pay you for - is a bad thought that you need to evict from your brain ASAP. You should want to do it. It's a good deal - you get paid the same rate for easy work that you would get paid for hard work. We technologists sometimes get bad thoughts in our heads that are variants of the idea that we have the power and responsibility to optimise the entire universe, but in reality of course we have no such thing, and we need to get rid of those thoughts and draw appropriate boundaries.
- apercu 11y agoYou're right. I think it's aa timing thing. In June-August or December I'd be happy to get to invoice for simple admin work. But I seem to be slammed Jan-May every year (lots of weekend work, business travel) so it just seems excessive right now. You are also correct that we want to optimize everything. Sigh.
- tedmiston 11y agoHave you considered a personal assistant for it? If the output would be the same whether it was done by you or someone else... well, why not explore not doing it yourself?