Time tracking: how and why

Currently working at Clint, I have been tracking my hours “manually”. We had an electronic point system that is no longer tracked, and now only prints the time, but I still keep these papers and keep track of hours.

I am often asked why this is so, since there is no strict charge on hours, as even this control is done. The reason is simple: bad experiences are more striking than good ones.

Let me explain. I routinely try to arrive at 9 am, make a lunch break, and leave just before 7 pm, as the contract is 44 hours per week, but sometimes it is necessary, or rather very important that I stay until later to solve things that are up to me, and that's not a big problem, but it's certainly nothing that I enjoy, after all it's still a job, and those moments mark. They mark a lot more than days like today, which comes out about 30 minutes early for not being very well in the stomach.

That's where my time tracking comes in. Without it, the tendency is for my dissatisfaction with the overworked hours to overlap the hours I didn't work, leading to perhaps unjustified disgust.

Then we come to the part of how. We have here a famous case of things I thought of making software but a table solves. I made a simple table that could certainly be improved and adapted to different use cases. In my case she has two inbound and two outbound times per day, and calculates based on a workload of 44 hours per week. It is not fully automated, but it has served just in case.

In the image, the example of how it was in July.

Tabela mostrando meus horários no mês de julho

I leave on here the Google Sheets link for anyone interested.

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