do you have to do a timesheet for work?
how accurate do you make it?
how often do you fill it in?
do you always forget to do it and get hounded later on?
time sheets? what the fuck you all about, son?
Yes we have them
I’ve not filled one in for 3 years. No ones said anything.
I’m centrally costed and salaried so i don’t see the point.
I tell everyone how important it is to fill in timesheets so they get paid correctly but it’s so I can check productivity and margins
supposed to do it when I’m on day rate
don’t do it, because I resent being on day rate
It’s ten years next Thursday since I filed my last one and vowed never to have another job that would require me to do them.
Used to write off entire weeks to codes I realised nobody was monitoring (god bless you, sundry local training) and no-one ever seemed to care. Could see the point of them a little more when I was running jobs and trying to figure out how we’d managed to do them last year in a fraction of the time but by then I’d mentally checked out anyway.
My timesheet story (it’s dull)
Years ago I temped at a biotech company in their archive department. Basically scanning trial documents on the big scanner.
Everyone had to assign their time to the drug they were working on. Most other departments was fine cos people generally only worked on one or two, but the archive department worked on dozens and they all loathed filling in their timesheets because of it - it took so fucking long.
I wrote an excel macro to take their weekly document processing counts and divvy it up by drug and fill in the timesheet.
The rest of the department thought I was a magician
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I don’t have them now but when I’ve been contracting in the past I really bloody hate it.
yeah because I know if I log the right amount of overtime it sends off a big alert and they make me take days back
otherwise just guesstimate, cumbersome
Yep, I have them and hate filling them in as I can work across 20+ clients one week then a different 20+ the next so I can’t use any of the copy and paste features other teams in the business use. Probably why I get automated emails each day telling me I am currently 8 weeks behind on filling them in.
Yes
Fairly. Bundle dis time to generic internal
Generally fill in client billable as I do it, fill in the gaps Friday afternoon
Not too bad for this, sometimes backfill first thing Monday morning
Load of shite
used to when i worked at a consultancy. a lot of time was put into “misc admin”
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I’m a consultant, so yes. My timesheeted hours vs my actual effort are a work of great fiction 
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Not really. I work to fixed fees as much as possible, but the standard in this profession is billing in six minute increments and sometimes that’s what clients want, so I have timers for that, and for capped fees cases (where I’m almost certainly going to be billing out the top end of that but I want to check I’m not taking the piss).
My recording of it is as accurate as possible. How this translates into my bills is… variable (in the client’s favour).
Bit personal.
Narp.
wait, what?!
We have them but they auto fill with my normal hours so I only need to do anything if I’m off sick, take a short notice holiday, work extra hours etc. When I was working shifts I had to amend it to get my Sunday time and a half. If I don’t do anything it just auto-submits 35 hours per week. I don’t need to record what I’m working on or anything like that
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Record your time for everything, 10 billing units per hour. Bills calculated and targets set based on that.
Used to use them for flexi time when my employer used to let me come and go as I pleased as long as I was at my desk between 10-4 so sometimes you could feel energised and whack a few extra monday night hours on and then on friday be like nah, fuck this, I’m having a lie in and going home early.
I illegally let a member of my team use one when I was head of dept in a company with fairly strigent staff benefits policies. She was doing her PhD and would work 13 hour days and racked up over a hundred banked hours and then take off for a two week research trip without needing to touch any AL. Spent two years sweating that I was going to be discovered as some kind of flexi-time master criminal but amazingly nobody noticed that this person on my team either lived in the office or dissapeared for weeks at a time.
In essence, timesheets are a good thing as long as they can be used as a staff benefit.
Have a Flexi sheet for when I start and finish but don’t need to say what I’m doing.
Fill pretty accurately to a degree because I work 10 days over 9 so like to make sure I’ve done my hours
No one else looks at it, think technically manager has access
Yeah, have to do one, but I’m a global overhead so it’s just 7.5 hours a day to a bucket project.
Used to have to account every hour to a certain project or support ticket or whatever and it was horrible.
Aye, as a partnership funded by 15 local authorities, we have to provider a full account of activities we spend out time completing. So accounting for project work, travel, site visits, events, external meetings, training, sickness and annual leave.
Has to be pretty accurate. I do mine to 15min increments
Daily, otherwise I’ll…
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