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How about tracking your time in increments of 6 minutes? Also, their system doesn't know what minutes are. You have to convert to decimal hours on the fly. BU

How about tracking your time in increments of 6 minutes? Also, their system doesn't know what minutes are. You have to convert to decimal hours on the fly. BUT WAIT THERES MORE Every six minutes, also need to know which 30 character charge code you were working on. Also also the 15 character Work Breakdown Structure number (Sending Email, Review Process, etc). Which changes by Project. Also also also the 24 character project number. All of these. EVERY SIX MINUTES. OR YOU ARE FIRED. Single mistake, KICK. Here's your box. Goodbye. Keep in mind this is all for salaried staff. And. AND!!!! You can only charge a maximum of 1.7% hours on overhead tasks. Overhead tasks like . . liiiiiiikkkkeee . . DOING YOUR TIMECARD. Over the decades they've gotten really good at staffing with people who are good at timecards and/or who lie a lot. (I've moved on, thanks for asking, but it took me far too long)

quickthrower2 4y ago
My sympathies! Legal is definitely not for me.
- MilStdJunkie 4y ago
  Oh man, I wish it was legal. Nah, this is defense. Now, it's normal to have this sort of charge structure, but not for everyone in the entire company. That was the canary, I guess, but I lost track of all the various red flags . . alarmingly quickly. It's like the contractor didn't have its own policies, then they got a contract, and just applied whatever was in their first contract as their generic process. Bargain basement staff, makes it even more absurd that they're tracking six minute increments for everyone. As if the salaried nature of the workforce didn't do that already. Case studies in "why you don't let customers set business process", because then you have dozens of businesses inside your business.
- wombatpm 4y ago
  Government contracting. I worked for a Non-profit that was just as crazy with timekeeping. All of that detail went into generating the billing statement. The different activities were subject to different base rates as well as different overhead rates, depending what was negotiated in the contract with which ever agency we were dealing with.

quickthrower2 4y ago

My sympathies! Legal is definitely not for me.

MilStdJunkie 4y ago
Oh man, I wish it was legal. Nah, this is defense. Now, it's normal to have this sort of charge structure, but not for everyone in the entire company. That was the canary, I guess, but I lost track of all the various red flags . . alarmingly quickly. It's like the contractor didn't have its own policies, then they got a contract, and just applied whatever was in their first contract as their generic process. Bargain basement staff, makes it even more absurd that they're tracking six minute increments for everyone. As if the salaried nature of the workforce didn't do that already. Case studies in "why you don't let customers set business process", because then you have dozens of businesses inside your business.
wombatpm 4y ago
Government contracting. I worked for a Non-profit that was just as crazy with timekeeping. All of that detail went into generating the billing statement. The different activities were subject to different base rates as well as different overhead rates, depending what was negotiated in the contract with which ever agency we were dealing with.