Add time tracking for time tracking with every other task.
I actually did this at my previous job. They wanted me to time track everything I did to the minute so I started adding time spent tracking my time. Boss hated it but couldn’t really do anything to get me to stop
Got any tips for how to keep track when you flip between tasks so often? Program or app or paper and pen tracking?
I made a spreadsheet where one column would timestamp each row when the task note column was edited. Then another column that just checks time between timestamps to tell me how long was spent on a task. Another column was used for formatting so I could quickly copy/paste everything into the system at the end of the day
The malicious compliance that is needed.
It’s not malicious. If the client wants to waste your time, you bill for the time wasted.
Anyway, my preference is still to run away.
Then start adding time for time tracking time cracking
Do you know how much time tracking you would have to do to track the time tracking of tracking time?
It’s simple: Either the project management team keeps the customer away from my time tracking or I’ll keep my time away from that customer
One time when I was contracting and my company was in the middle of a merger I had to do triple time keeping; client, old company, new company, all on different systems, two of which were ancient hr software from the 90s for some reason still in use 5 years ago. Its at that point I just started blanket logging 6 hours per day on whatever project I could think of at the moment.
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So obviously this sucks, however.
Look into timewarrior+taskwarrior. They’re the only tools I’ve ever seen for these types of tasks that don’t fucking suck ass.
Hated this in one past job. It gave me great joy to quit and work somewhere that wasn’t bean counting. But I can say that RescueTime with Toggl was pretty handy to track stuff. RescueTime would autotrack the time spent in different apps and tabs. Toggl allowed me to do a simple start/stop with a label for more focused work.
