I'm required to account for my time at least once a year. Interested in moving to California? :-) Mike On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Taylor, Chris David < ChrisDavid.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? > > *Chris Taylor* > *Sr. Oracle DBA* > Ingram Barge Company > Nashville, TN 37205 > Office: 615-517-3355 > Cell: 615-354-4799 > Email: chris.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > *CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE**: This e-mail and any attachments are > confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, > please notify the sender immediately and delete the contents of this message > without disclosing the contents to anyone, using them for any purpose, or > storing or copying the information on any medium.* > >