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What do you put on your timesheets?

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Naetha · 19/06/2007 15:04

I was just pondering (as I do so much these days) what the hell I'm going to put on my timesheet for work for today!?

I've spent a fair amount of time on MN and other websites, a significant portion of my time staring out of the window and daydreaming. A very large part of it wondering if I'm going to be sick or not, or rooting around trying to find something I want to eat to stop me feeling sick.

Unfortunately, I'm meant to have spent 7.5 hours doing work today, but in reality I've spent about 3.

What do you guys put on your timesheets?

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mother2b · 19/06/2007 15:13

are you a temp? do you work from home or at a company?

mylittlestar · 19/06/2007 15:15

Do you have an 'admin' code?

Always worked for me!

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Naetha · 19/06/2007 15:22

I work for a company - I have to fill in a timesheet each week to account for each hour.

Unfortunately my boss has become a real Nazi recently (and he does know I'm pregnant) about making sure all my time is accounted for, so unfortunately I have to keep time I put down as "admin" to an absolute minimum!

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mylittlestar · 19/06/2007 15:25

Ah right! I used to have this problem as they always wanted the hours to be 'chargeable' and they couldn't bill clients for admin time!!

Can you try to find some tasks that you know you can do in half an hour, but spin them out to last 3 or 4!!

In my current job I quite often have to do company research online, or look into tax/accounting laws online - and I just do loads of things in half an hour, print loads of stuff off, then give it all to my boss 3 hours later!!

pavlovthecat · 19/06/2007 15:26

what do you do? Could you put dadreaming and looking out of the window as 'personal development and reflection time'?! I award myself some of that on a friday, to 'gather up the things I have learnt, evaluate the good and bad, reflect on how to improve' kind of thing...

yelnats · 19/06/2007 15:38

Cant you just run through a pile of filing and find chargeable codes that you have worked on recently and split the time out that way.

littleyawner · 19/06/2007 15:42

Thank you ! At last I don't feel as guilty.

I only have two weeks left at work and trying to concentrate on anything is just not happening.

Luckly I work in a small business and there are only 6 of us in the office and everyone is nearly as excited as me.

I have got my maternity replacement shadowing me this week so at I HAVE to do work. Good job she is here though or nothing would be ready in time !

cupcake78 · 19/06/2007 15:43

To be honest I have no idea what you can put it down as but it islovely to know that alot of people are as productive as I feel at the moment.

I have also done what can only be decribed as "diddly quat" all day. I have had a supervision with one of my staff which I managed to stretch out to two hours.

The photocopier seems to need constant attention (not) and as for the office it is almost spotless.

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Naetha · 19/06/2007 15:53

Unfortunately the way we work is that you can only charge time to jobs you've been pre-approved to work on, and all my jobs I'm managing (or approved on) are already over budget or soon to be that way!

Argh it sucks working for a company thats as tight as a ducks arse!

Doesn't help that my boss has just sat down with a bowl of steaming chilli and the smell is making me gip. He then complained at me when I opened the window!!!

Excuse the ranting, hormones etc.

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mylittlestar · 19/06/2007 15:56

surely you have to charge your time somewhere though? what jobs is your boss expecting you to charge the time to?

(you have my sympathies as I remember what it was like. you can't charge to admin. but then you can't charge to clients as you'll go over budget! can't win!!)

mimicakey · 19/06/2007 15:57

Say you were researching some ideas for ways of making more money out of your clients! But you've decided they aren't practical.

I used to hate filling in time sheets!

RGPargy · 19/06/2007 17:09

I just put 7 hours of "document production" on my time sheets!!

PBirdy · 19/06/2007 17:40

I am so glad that someone else has this problem!!!

I also have to account for my time each day. I am 12 weeks pregnant and oh my god can't you see it for the past 2 months of timesheets. I actually have whole days when I struggle to get more than about 45 minutes on the clock and the rest is spent surfing the internet looking at baby stuff and refreshing my MN threads to check for new messages.

I sympathise with the admin codes - we aren't allowed to get away with much admin either. My trick lately has been to put loads of time on marketing time codes (although they aren't chargeable either). I have also done the odd bit of padding on client codes (oh the shame of it!) I figure, if it is going over budget anyway, then they are going to have to write off the time, so it is not as if you are actually being that dodgy and the client is having to pay for you to do diddly squat. It is not exactly great though for the company I guess. Oh well - it is not forever! I plan to enjoy it and bugger the timesheets.

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