Padding the work stats...

[vi edit]

This week at work has been horribly slow. I just wrapped up a huge project that was consuming about 90% of my time. All of my service tickets are closed. I've conducted all cross training that I need to do. And we're on hold for any new projects until a decision is made on a new enterprise wide system that we are looking into.

We are supposed to fill in our work time each day for all the stuff that we did and I'm coming up for a loss of things to continue padding my hours with. I don't think that posting on intrarweb forums is selectable category on the tracking tool.

:frown:

 

[Capt Caveman]

That's about 14 more minutes of work than I have accomplished today.

 

[JohnCU]

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2...productivity_pumps_em/

 

[vi edit]

I can't seem to find "Filling out and tracking NCAA brackets" as a category either.

 

[dmw16]

Wow, I've already put in 50 hours this week and I still probably have 20 more hours worth of stuff i could do.

I guess finding a happy medium in life isn't easy.

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: dmw16
Wow, I've already put in 50 hours this week and I still probably have 20 more hours worth of stuff i could do.

I guess finding a happy medium in life isn't easy.

I'd rather be really busy than bored.

 

[Chronoshock]

Isn't there some "personal development" or "general administrative" bucket you can assign your time to?

 

[pstylesss]

wow, same here. This month there weren't really any projects...

 

[Fritzo]

I am a master of this. After a large project, record your time as "Monitoring project results". It sounds impressive enough to get you through

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: shocksyde

Originally posted by: dmw16
Wow, I've already put in 50 hours this week and I still probably have 20 more hours worth of stuff i could do.

I guess finding a happy medium in life isn't easy.

I'd rather be really busy than bored.

Busy yes. Really busy no. I've been down the "60+ hour a week with a boatload of traveling" path before and have the scars to show for it. A well paced 40 hours is just fine.

 

[kstu]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I am a master of this. After a large project, record your time as "Monitoring project results". It sounds impressive enough to get you through

Oh nice one

How about "Post-Implementation Followup Activities"

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: kstu

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I am a master of this. After a large project, record your time as "Monitoring project results". It sounds impressive enough to get you through

Oh nice one

How about "Post-Implementation Followup Activities"

Nice! :thumbsup:

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: kstu

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I am a master of this. After a large project, record your time as "Monitoring project results". It sounds impressive enough to get you through

Oh nice one

How about "Post-Implementation Followup Activities"

Now you are learning Grasshopper.

 

[freegeeks]

I'm swamped. I'm sitting in the airport right now waiting for my flight back home and next tuesday I'm leaving for Bahrain for 6 weeks of stress and deadlines for one of our projects.

the joy of the working live

 

[FoBoT]

"research"
"maintenance"
"monitoring"

 

[Mr Pickles]

Yeah I'm kind of in the same boat. What sucks is that the stuff I could be doing right now is on hold because the smarter people decided to take today off because they knew it would be dead. No complaints though, I don't have to report what I'm doing and we were just told be head of HR that we could leave at 3pm. It's that bad.

 

[Riverhound777]

Researching new technology and ways to improve productivity.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Riverhound777
Researching new technology and ways to improve productivity.

That's like dividing by zero.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: kstu

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I am a master of this. After a large project, record your time as "Monitoring project results". It sounds impressive enough to get you through

Oh nice one

How about "Post-Implementation Followup Activities"

:laugh: Niiiiice

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: kstu

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I am a master of this. After a large project, record your time as "Monitoring project results". It sounds impressive enough to get you through

Oh nice one

How about "Post-Implementation Followup Activities"

what will you say when they follow up on your Post-Implementation Followup Activities

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: vi edit
This week at work has been horribly slow. I just wrapped up a huge project that was consuming about 90% of my time. All of my service tickets are closed. I've conducted all cross training that I need to do. And we're on hold for any new projects until a decision is made on a new enterprise wide system that we are looking into.

We are supposed to fill in our work time each day for all the stuff that we did and I'm coming up for a loss of things to continue padding my hours with. I don't think that posting on intrarweb forums is selectable category on the tracking tool.

:frown:

Typical Fri-
9am: arrived at work
9-10: checked/replied to emails
10: went to starbucks across street to get coffee. sat outside in nice weather enjoying said coffee
11-2: lunch (1hr eating, 2hrs watching the newly released movie Shutter)
2-3:30 surfing web
3:30 (time of this posting): Posting on ATOT
4: goto bank and deposit huge paycheck. (chose not to direct deposit because i needed something to do at 4pm)
5: go home

 

[legoman666]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
That's about 14 more minutes of work than I have accomplished today.

14 + 1 for me.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: kstu

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I am a master of this. After a large project, record your time as "Monitoring project results". It sounds impressive enough to get you through

Oh nice one

How about "Post-Implementation Followup Activities"

what will you say when they follow up on your Post-Implementation Followup Activities

What is this following up you speak of?

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: vi edit
This week at work has been horribly slow. I just wrapped up a huge project that was consuming about 90% of my time. All of my service tickets are closed. I've conducted all cross training that I need to do. And we're on hold for any new projects until a decision is made on a new enterprise wide system that we are looking into.

We are supposed to fill in our work time each day for all the stuff that we did and I'm coming up for a loss of things to continue padding my hours with. I don't think that posting on intrarweb forums is selectable category on the tracking tool.

:frown:

Typical Fri-
9am: arrived at work
9-10: checked/replied to emails
10: went to starbucks across street to get coffee. sat outside in nice weather enjoying said coffee
11-2: lunch (1hr eating, 2hrs watching the newly released movie Shutter)
2-3:30 surfing web
3:30 (time of this posting): Posting on ATOT
4: goto bank and deposit huge paycheck. (chose not to direct deposit because i needed something to do at 4pm)
5: go home

Now that rules. :beer:

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: freegeeks
I'm swamped. I'm sitting in the airport right now waiting for my flight back home and next tuesday I'm leaving for Bahrain for 6 weeks of stress and deadlines for one of our projects.

the joy of the working live

I'd love to travel for work, especially internationally.

I've been to Bahrain a few times and thought it was great. Probably not so much fun if you're working the whole time though.