My rant of the day. I really see no point in keeping a time card when we're told to fake the hours by never entering anything other than 40 hours a week. Of course, the software prevents entries beyond 40 hours a week - but it still irks me! That's one issue I have, here's another: Being told I can't enter in time for projects I've worked on and being told not to report true hours (even proportionally scaled hours) to represent where my time goes on projects is just lame. I'm sure it makes sense to someone somewhere - but I could care less. It's de-motivational if you ask me. If I'm required to log in my hours then - at the very least - I should be allowed to give a true representation of where I'm spending my time.
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Does extra hours does not bring more productivity to Q but wasted due to inefficient leadership/management, Doing unnecessary things...but these hours are not counted so management don't need to explain it..poor engineers get shafted and they think they are doing something valuable...accountability is a big issue in Q.
The problem is, if you spend 80 hours per week doing something other people do in less than wo hours per week, QCOM rewards this inefficiency with merit bonuses in many groups.
Bonus should depend on what you do, not on how long you spend doing it. If you spend 80 hours doing something that most people can do in 20, you're one of the most inefficient, unproductive workers in the office.
I once worked at a company that allowed reporting true hours worked on a project. The lower level management was laughing all the way to the bank, since they always reported working 80+h/week. Their bonus amount depended on it. The 40h/week cap is there for a reason. We do not peg our bonuses/RSU on time reported, but on the actual results achieved, except when politics, favoritism and/or nepotism is in the mix, of course.
Generally, if you are hired as a salaried employee, such as a computer professional, or other "white collar" employee that makes above a certain hourly wage, it doesn't matter how many hours per week you work. However, recently, the courts have allowed cases to proceed where the salaried white collar employees performed non-discretionary, non-creative or repetitive tasks that required supervision by other professionals to sue for overtime pay if they worked more than 40 hours per week.
These bastards were exploiting us..
There's talk of a class-action against the timecard inaccuracies. Google it but don't join it until you got your GTFO papers. Joining it now may cause you to be a target (also illegal).
May be they do so there is no record of overtime..looks shady...also it suppresses real cost of project.
Isn't that illegal? Asking a worker to lie about hours and NOT report overtime?
Abolishing Qtime should be 1st cost cutting measure..
So true, so true. My pet peeve #1