Another round!

[fbhjr]

As of 8:15 this morning I have worked at my current job for a year.

That has been 235.5 word days meaning I have not worked 24.5 days. 12
company holidays means I’ve had 12.5 days of vacation time. (OK, the one
for the camera where the sun doesn’t shine medical test wasn’t really
vacation, but it wasn’t at work.) How much I have is never said and it
left up to my manager to determine. But, I got 15 a year at the last
place, and my boss said it would be the same here. So, I guess I should
have used 2.5 more days off.

Of course if you go by an 8 hour work day, something my paycheck keeps
assuring me is the standard I work, I have worked an extra 27.6875 days.
And, given I wasn’t here for 24.5 work days, that says that 8 hour thing
isn’t very close at all. (The average is 9.77282 hours per work day.)

Looking at how I spend my time, I did manage to spend just over half of it
working on my robot. Yay! But, it is also quite a few hours in meetings.
If we go by that 8 hour day thing, that would be 98 1/8 days just in
meetings. Of course if I use the real average day from above it is only
80.325 days in meetings.


That means that depending on which of those numbers are used I spent either
3.7 or 4.5 MONTHS in meetings in the last year.
Of course if you look at the hours you’d see that it really only comes out
to 1.07 months of real time 24/7 in meetings…

That’s a lot of meetings.

Comments

[hindustar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this very thing is why I refused to go from hourly to salary when I was promoted to management. I was going to get money for every ounce of overtime.

Love the grafts. Congrats on making it a year!

[brickhousewench.livejournal.com]

Congrats on your first anniversary!

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

When do you think? I spend lots of time thinking.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

At night.
In the car to or from work.
Any other time I can manage.

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

LOL. Don't think about company things on non-company time.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid my thoughts go where they will and I have little say in the matter...

[meathiel]

You do love your statistics, don't you? ;-)
And I thought controllers are bad ... but engineers are obviously worse! *lol*

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

LOLLLLLLLL

*looking like crazy for the -I like-button-*

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

Wow already 1 year?? It seems as yesterday that you changed jobs.

hmm.. don't you have a certain amount of days off that you are in title to have?

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

No, we are not given a set amount of days.
When they offer you the job they say that means that you can take off more than you can at most companies.
But, what it really means is there is no amount of time you can say "I've earned this, let me have it."

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

hmm sounds like a bad system to me

[cissa.livejournal.com]

Even that does not always help. At one of J's previous jobs, mamagemet MANDATED that he take all or most of his vacation time, and yet ever time he offered any specific dates, they refused because there was some sort of deadline or other planned. He finally asked them, OK, what days CAN I take, and they wouldn't tell him- "Oh, just pick some! Whenever you want to go!" Ran through that several times.

And got donked on his performance review for not taking the MANDATED vacation time, if I recall correctly.

[yesididit.livejournal.com]

i've never understood the draw to working salary vs hourly. it benefits management, not the employee. employees get abused under that system.

ugh about meetings. they seem to be champion time sucks.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I do know folks who have put in far less hours than expected.
But, they often do not keep their jobs all that long...

[merilune.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, look how much time you spend in meetings! Do they give you free food in those meetings? If so, I think I could deal with all of the meetings...

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Generally no food in meetings. Once in a great while. But, I could count those times on one hand and have left over fingers...

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

What do you record all your data on for all the different stats you do and how do you remember to record all the data for all the different stats you are keeping?

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I mostly use Excel spreadsheets.

For my work time, every day I record what I've worked on and for how long. In broad categories, not too specific. So, at the end of the year I just have to total the columns to see what I've done.

It's an old habit from more than 20 years ago now when I had to put in time cards for everything I worked on. I got in the habit of tracking my work hours and liked knowing how much effort I put into what.

So, the key is, record it every day. It doesn't take very long and you get the pile of data to look at after a while.

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

ah I see

but you are also collecting data for the sword troupe, and M&M colours and all sorts of things you have shared with us. It is so fascinating to me you keep data for so many different and interesting things.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

But it is all incremental. I keep a little data each time and then wait for it to grow.

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

i understand