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#29971 - 22/04/08 09:53 AM
Re: How do you record your time?
[Re: TheWoo]
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Geoff Hannis
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Registered: 12/02/04
Posts: 3026
Loc: the path less trodden
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It's an interesting topic, Adam. But the first question (which needs to be clearly addressed) must be:-
"Why would you want to do that"? 
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#29974 - 22/04/08 10:00 AM
Re: How do you record your time?
[Re: Geoff Hannis]
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Huw
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Registered: 20/06/00
Posts: 1390
Loc: Essex
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I don't think it's a case of 'wanting' to Geoff 
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#29977 - 22/04/08 10:04 AM
Re: How do you record your time?
[Re: Huw]
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Geoff Hannis
Hero
Registered: 12/02/04
Posts: 3026
Loc: the path less trodden
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In that case, it probably needs to be resisted!
I seem to recall a previous thread about this sort of thing.
Good stuff like this, for instance. And this old one!
Meanwhile, perhaps Adam can give us some more clues about the motive here ... then perhaps the greybeards can advise!
Edited by Geoff Hannis (22/04/08 10:37 AM)
Edit Reason: Blast from the Past!
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#29981 - 22/04/08 10:35 AM
Re: How do you record your time?
[Re: Geoff Hannis]
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Lee S
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Registered: 17/09/06
Posts: 205
Loc: Hereford
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First an admission I work with Adam, unfortunately people from Worcester speak strangely and being a young man he has trouble forming simple sentences (I blame the education system and the reliance on "Word").
We have recently changed Directorates and have a whole new set of leaps and bonds to achieve. One of these is that we are required to prove that we are working efficiently.
Currently we book time down to individual jobs on an unsuitable database style program called “Shire”, this has no means to cover the tasks all of us do many on a daily basis such as chasing other peoples jobs, answering the phone, training, instructing, writing test procedures, reading standards, playing on the EBME site etc.
Does anybody else have similar problems and if you do how do you overcome them?
Lee
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Don't forget "we've never had it so good".
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#29982 - 22/04/08 10:39 AM
Re: How do you record your time?
[Re: Lee S]
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Geoff Hannis
Hero
Registered: 12/02/04
Posts: 3026
Loc: the path less trodden
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Can we assume that you meant bounds there, Lee (... blame it on Word)? 
Yes, Mate ... this is an old chestnut. Am I right in guessing that you have a bunch of keen new management that don't know their a**** from their elbows? Ignore them, and after a while they will go away (until the next fresh faced gang turn up, that is)!
(my advice is to keep asking that very pertinent question:- why?)
Edited by Geoff Hannis (22/04/08 10:45 AM)
Edit Reason: Bonded labour?
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#29985 - 22/04/08 10:51 AM
Re: How do you record your time?
[Re: TheWoo]
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Geoff Hannis
Hero
Registered: 12/02/04
Posts: 3026
Loc: the path less trodden
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So, if you feel that you really must comply with such nonsense, surely the answer is clear:- use a database system that includes all that stuff!
For instance, one of the industry standard CMMS includes:-
"Labour Productivity:- analyzes work order and non-work order activities providing efficiencies and productivity data for employees. Reports include employee productive and non-productive time, work accountability and efficiency, estimated versus actual hours and PM workload forecasts."
How's that?
Edited by Geoff Hannis (22/04/08 11:55 AM)
Edit Reason: Industry standard
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#29990 - 22/04/08 11:12 AM
Re: How do you record your time?
[Re: Geoff Hannis]
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D.O.A
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Registered: 16/04/08
Posts: 18
Loc: Cider Country
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Well where I work its not really logged but the "Managers" do keep an eye on output! As a rule off thumb I generally like to charge 70% of the work day to work aka job sheets inputted. This then give a propotion of the day to such jobs which really dont require need less paper work, ordering or workshop duties.
But this is what I like to do as a Tech, there are other people who sit on the gravy train and dont tend to do a lot!!
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