The everyday blog of Richard Bartle.
7:52am on Wednesday, 30th March, 2005:
Outburst
Oh joy! A week ago I was selected entirely at random from all the people working at Essex University to fill in a timesheet to account for my activities. I had to write down everything I did, then fill in a form at the end. I'm a 0.5 full-time equivalent, it was a 4-day week, so unless I came up with 2 days' worth of work I was telling the university administration they weren't getting value for money.
Still, I wrote it all down, Monday to Sunday inclusive. Here are the results they wanted (in minutes):
Teaching: 260
Teaching support: 335 (this includes external examiner work)
Research: 1045 (mainly because I was writing a paper)
Over 27 hours in total. I should ask for a raise.
Curiously, there was nowhere to put the:
Administration: 310
plus another 10 for filling in the form...
Latest entries.
Archived entries.
About this blog.
Copyright © 2005 Richard Bartle (richard@mud.co.uk).