Get angry when you use round numbers in your time estimates, because “How could every task possibly take increments of five minutes?!”
Get angry when you use arbitrary non-rounded time entries, because “How am I supposed to determine the average time it takes you to complete a task when there’s so much variance?!”
Gets angry when you spend an hour every day filling out your fucking time cards, because “You’re not supposed to bill for that!”
Gleefully accepts absolute garbage work that you just subcontracted to Fivr.
I used to work at a place that required daily progress reports on tasks (this was before agile took off so ‘daily standup’ wasn’t a thing.). So I wrote a script to schedule my git commits throughout the week (so that I had at least one a day), and every afternoon it would pull my git history, generate a summary, and email it to my manager.
He knew it was automated and hated me for it but I had the most consistent and detailed reports. On the upside, it really trained me to make good commit messages. On the downside It really instilled me with a strong “burn the building down” kind of vibe that persists to this day.
Ask for per-task time tracking
Get angry when you use round numbers in your time estimates, because “How could every task possibly take increments of five minutes?!”
Get angry when you use arbitrary non-rounded time entries, because “How am I supposed to determine the average time it takes you to complete a task when there’s so much variance?!”
Gets angry when you spend an hour every day filling out your fucking time cards, because “You’re not supposed to bill for that!”
Gleefully accepts absolute garbage work that you just subcontracted to Fivr.
I used to work at a place that required daily progress reports on tasks (this was before agile took off so ‘daily standup’ wasn’t a thing.). So I wrote a script to schedule my git commits throughout the week (so that I had at least one a day), and every afternoon it would pull my git history, generate a summary, and email it to my manager.
He knew it was automated and hated me for it but I had the most consistent and detailed reports. On the upside, it really trained me to make good commit messages. On the downside It really instilled me with a strong “burn the building down” kind of vibe that persists to this day.