Timesheets
Jul. 8th, 2008 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueOK, so I was grumbling about timesheets on my previous post.
I'm thinking about why I don't like them. Especially in our current situation, where they're for 'efficiency analysis'.
I think it boils down to two things.
1/ They never bothered to ask any of the people doing the job, where time is wasted un-necessarily. I mean, seriously. I can understand why you might want to streamline what we're doing. I can understand why you might want to analyse. But you're essentially treating all your employees as data-loggers, rather than thinking adults who could TELL YOU if you were just bothered enough to ask.
2/ Filling in forms full of numbers, is what computers are good at. Indeed, what they're fundamentally designed to do. Computers are not very clever, but they count very quick, and have a lot of fingers. They are tools, that can be driven by a human, who figures out how to do this finger counting, and sets the computer on that task. To therefore take the human, and then get them to do what the computer could do SO MUCH BETTER is not just boring, it's actively wasteful.
Oh well. I get to start filling in that timesheet tomorrow. That will be fun.
I'm thinking about why I don't like them. Especially in our current situation, where they're for 'efficiency analysis'.
I think it boils down to two things.
1/ They never bothered to ask any of the people doing the job, where time is wasted un-necessarily. I mean, seriously. I can understand why you might want to streamline what we're doing. I can understand why you might want to analyse. But you're essentially treating all your employees as data-loggers, rather than thinking adults who could TELL YOU if you were just bothered enough to ask.
2/ Filling in forms full of numbers, is what computers are good at. Indeed, what they're fundamentally designed to do. Computers are not very clever, but they count very quick, and have a lot of fingers. They are tools, that can be driven by a human, who figures out how to do this finger counting, and sets the computer on that task. To therefore take the human, and then get them to do what the computer could do SO MUCH BETTER is not just boring, it's actively wasteful.
Oh well. I get to start filling in that timesheet tomorrow. That will be fun.
