I was recently hired on as a salaried employee for an IT company. We have a system where we have to report every minute that we spend on each individual task or ticket. I’m not opposed to the idea entirely- I understand having to record billable hours. But, I was told to “find 40 hours” to report every week.
So, of course, everyone pads their time sheets, adding 10 minutes to this and 20 minutes to that.
But I’m a multitasker. So, if I take care of three tickets between 10 and 11 AM, but those are my only tickets that day, I have to make it look like each one took me an hour and a half. Or whatever.
At the end of the day, it makes me look like an inefficient worker (instead of the actual powerhouse that I am). But, I don’t have a choice. I have to “find” 40 hours every week to report.
Is this just something that the corporate world does that I need to get used to?