My favorite was getting reamed because you put 30 minutes over the estimated hours on a task.
It made task accounting a nightmare as you’d have to dump hours onto unrelated task whenever something inevitably took longer than expected.
Such incredible bullshit. Tracking is to learn and see where things go right and wrong.
The fact manglement then puts the onus on the employee to cook te books for them is bizarre. Once tasks go over budget you can have a talk about it in a retrospective or something. But half hours… makes no sense.
Yeah it’s why at later jobs I advocate for complexity points and don’t do consulting anymore.
Tying money to hours spent on a task just encourages all the wrong behavior.
Yeah which is getting into time card fraud territory. Which is just encouraged by asinine time tracking policies.
I’m pretty sure, that a lot of these policies are put in place as kompromat. If everyone technically violates policies, everyone can be fired or sued for breaking policies if something goes wrong. Management knows exactly what’s going on, but they also know that the company would collapse if everyone actually followed protocol.
