For the first time in my post masters degree career, I am reduced to manually logging how much time I spend on tasks & projects outside of any ticketing or scrum system because my new supervisor wants to know what our team of four does every week. This amounts to my having to write out everything I do daily, then tallying it up, and entering it into a spreadsheet. Other teammates have to do the same thing.
*I work remotely, in an IT adjacent position, salaried, permanent. I have been here for almost 3 years. I am a stand-alone specialist but I work cross functionally with almost every section of the digital platform. I say that because there are so many hats I wear, it's hard to quantify what I do hour to hour.
*I attend every team meeting, respond to all messages & emails promptly during business hours. I turn in requested reports on time. I act my wage, which BTW, is 10-15k less than what the market dictates for my seniority.
*I even garnered an award recently from our software vendor because of our innovative implementation of their product.
*Boss got grumpy with my categories and accounting method, which I had to make up because they provided no guidance as to how to fill it in. Then they forgot I was on vacation for a week and entered nothing.
I think I need to line item one hour each week just for this BS micromanagement. Or maybe two? 🤔