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Weekday drinking as a hobby.

What’s wrong with a time tracker?

I’ve worked in once place where I was support (no projects, all work came from and was tracked in tickets). Since everyone had to use the time tracking system anyway, I had to enter 8 hours every day. I was salaried, so no OT or docked pay for time off; I entered the same 5x8 every week, regardless of what or when I worked that week. Pointless.

Another time, I was subcontracting and had to enter time for the same projects for both my employer and the company that hired us. My employer wanted time submitted twice a month, and the hiring company demanded weekly. Tedious.

Two of these three companies were irrationally anal about pre-filling the time sheets, even when the hours were well planned or functionally irrelevant.

This stands today as my favorite demonstration to show people why I’m so grumpy at their meeting invites. Thank you for posting it here, as it was my first thought when seeing the OP.

Which is exactly why it overheats so quickly when they close the lid.

Let’s face it, the place using a laptop on the floor with a paper sign probably doesn’t have the budget for real sysadmins. At the same time, most real sysadmins know to disable the lid-closing behavior and get the laptop off of the carpet because they’ve been foiled in their past by people who refused to read the goddamn paper sign.