Re: Question about time accounting at your work
- From: "S. Anthony Sequeira" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Oracle L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:45:38 +0100
Taylor, Chris David wrote:
> Ok fellow full-time employee DBAs I have a question. (Not for
> contractors :)
>
> How many of you use project accounting at your place of work. Where
> every hour has to be accounted for against projects, or maintenance or
> some other code?
>
> I was basically told I'm not "visible enough" --- this is 1 year after
> receiving a ton of awards and accolades for solving a problem at one
> of our sister companies. Now it "appears" that my value to the
> company is being questioned. I imagine questions like "What does he
> do all day?" are being asked.
>
> Usually I lump database support into 1 group, and patches/maintenance
> into another group and performance tuning into a 3rd group. Now, I'm
> goign to have to start micromanaging my hours. I work for an internal
> IT department at a large corporation. I think we bill the other
> departments for services, but not sure.
>
> Anyone else have to deal with this?
>
I have to account, down to the half hour for everything I do, with details.
You are not alone.
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S. Anthony Sequeira
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