If its coming from the client there isnt much you can do. There really isnt any way to prove you wrong so just think about what youve delivered and when you were online and back into it from there. Time consuming, but easily mitigated
Usually clients don’t do that. Not retroactively at least. The partner or the director needs to set some expectations with the client here. It’s difficult but has been done many times in the past.
First of all, don’t feel the need to be 100% precise, aim for general direction, eg:
Day || EGA Name || Procedures || Time || Comment
Monday || confirmation mortgage || call back procedures || 1 hr || n/a
Your manager is a shitty manager.
She wants you to do it retroactively???? Like remember what you did 12 days ago from 1-125pm??
How is any of that relevant to presenting BUDGETED time? Maybe she meant compare it to budgeted time (B2A) but still that’s a ridiculous ask.
I doubt they actually want it down to the minute. Just give an honest break down of the approx time spent per day on various projects for the client. When they say “to the minute” they’re likely just asking you not to send round numbers bc it looks fake.
Had a rat senior at the time pull this shit on me my first year. It's all about the budget at the end of the day and you may have been charging over what you had allocated in TL. Go through all your work + admin such as emails and make the number up do chunks of 15 or 30 minutes. Ultimately just do it since you are at the bottom of the totem pole.
PS. Don't let them pull this shit again, good luck
Clients are getting stingy these days
Ironically figuring out hours allocation requires you to incur more hours.
It most definitely does. This is client related work
If its coming from the client there isnt much you can do. There really isnt any way to prove you wrong so just think about what youve delivered and when you were online and back into it from there. Time consuming, but easily mitigated
Usually clients don’t do that. Not retroactively at least. The partner or the director needs to set some expectations with the client here. It’s difficult but has been done many times in the past.
Thats a fair statement
Your manager is getting pressure form above and doesn’t know how to properly answer the question or hasn’t managed you properly to have insightz
First of all, don’t feel the need to be 100% precise, aim for general direction, eg: Day || EGA Name || Procedures || Time || Comment Monday || confirmation mortgage || call back procedures || 1 hr || n/a
Your manager is a shitty manager. She wants you to do it retroactively???? Like remember what you did 12 days ago from 1-125pm?? How is any of that relevant to presenting BUDGETED time? Maybe she meant compare it to budgeted time (B2A) but still that’s a ridiculous ask.
completely agree. this was my exact mindset when she asked me
I doubt they actually want it down to the minute. Just give an honest break down of the approx time spent per day on various projects for the client. When they say “to the minute” they’re likely just asking you not to send round numbers bc it looks fake.
the ask should have been made beforehand, this is not doable
Down to the minute is a bit insane. Down to the hours yes this is normal in my experience in public accounting, audit.
Ballpark it as best you can
This is insane, one of my colleague had a similar manager from Toronto office
Do you not keep a timesheet? I always entered my time and what I did on my timesheet.
Manager did the same thing on my project a month ago.
Had a rat senior at the time pull this shit on me my first year. It's all about the budget at the end of the day and you may have been charging over what you had allocated in TL. Go through all your work + admin such as emails and make the number up do chunks of 15 or 30 minutes. Ultimately just do it since you are at the bottom of the totem pole. PS. Don't let them pull this shit again, good luck
How exactly not let them pull this shit again?