Time, gentlemen, please

Posted on July 6, 2024 by dtw42
Did I see your brother coming in for the cover designer job in our books division? Yeah – he's never got enough to do at the agency where he works. I thought they were hiring more artworkers, though. Oh they are – all the time. Why? Everyone has to account for all their hours on a time logging system. There are three categories: billable client tasks, non-billable internal tasks, and 'downtime' for when there's no work to do. Okay, and...? If you log more than a minimal amount of downtime, they give you stupid pointless tasks to do, and you go to the back of the queue for pay rises and the front of the queue for redundancies. So presumably everyone finds creative ways to log their slack time under 'internal tasks' instead – training and travel and suchlike? Of course – then when they win a new client who might bring in more work, HR run a utilisation report and see that everyone's fully occupied... ...And figure they need to hire more staff? You got it. He's taken to accidentally spilling coffee over his laptop once a week so he can log a couple of hours against IT support.
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