At some point in time the small company I worked for had 2 managers (I was one of them). The other manager thought he could pull one over on me (we never got along), and convinced the owner that my side of the Business was not producing enough to justify it’s cost.
so, we had an excel spreadsheet open at all times, and we had to change the status to whatever we were doing (Answering Phone call, meeting customers at the Lobby, working on jobs, etc) it totaled each item at the end of the day.
After a week of this I asked the owner why this was not being done on the other Manager’s side of the business, and found out ALL of this was at the other managers insistence.
I asked the owner if he had any idea of time being wasted, logging our activities down to the minute, and also why wasn’t the same requirement put on both sides of the business?, and at what point in time did he think that this requirement was saving him any money compared to when I managed the employees and kept them as busy as possible depending on the workload (which did vary)
the logging was no longer necessary after I made these points
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