What’s wrong with a time tracker? If you’re billing a client, you need to know how much time you spent on them. If you’re tracking internal projects, then it’s still worth knowing where your time is spent and if it might be better spent elsewhere. If it’s work hours that are tracked, then that’s a solution for ‘Unregistered overtime.’

[–] riskable@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When you work on the same thing for 8 hours a day for years and then suddenly management decides that they need "detailed time tracking."

They just gave you a new job without additional compensation. New responsibilities, no new title, no raise, etc.

Then—months later—they realize that everyone's spending at least half an hour, regularly to figure out how they're spending their time. Some bean counter adds up how much that costs in real money and then—out of nowhere—management decides they don't need detailed time tracking anymore.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’ll offer a different explanation: After checking for a few months they realized that all’s good and that the tracking isn’t needed anymore.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

So they got their feelings satisfied with only a major annoyance to everyone and about a month of work wasted among everyone.

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