RE: Question about time accounting at your work
- From: "Milen Kulev" <makulev@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ChrisDavid.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:50:49 +0200
Hallo Chris,
yes, I have been on several customer sites where I have seen management was
requesting to fill in time-sheets in order to
1) get rough information who is doing what and when
2) get an overview how much time(aka money) a project costs
The issue with "not visible enough" usually pops up after one asks for
salary raise ;)
If other departments are billed for DBA services, then there should be a
scope, quantity and quality of services defined.
If this is not the case, discuss it with your manager. Do you use a
ticketing system ? Request from other departments to get a ticket for
everything you do for them. Thus you will always have a proof what and when
you have done for each department.
HTH. Milen
From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Taylor, Chris David
Sent: Freitag, 18. September 2009 22:28
To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Question about time accounting at your work
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?
Chris Taylor
Sr. Oracle DBA
Ingram Barge Company
Nashville, TN 37205
Office: 615-517-3355
Cell: 615-354-4799
Email: chris.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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