Re: Accounting for TW time

["Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>]

As a full-time employee, I am required to fill out a time card weekly. 
On the time card, I record time in/time out for each day, and the 
percent of time that I spent on any particular task. All of our projects 
are given an accounting code, whether they are engineering or 
marketing related. In a given day, I may charge to customer support, 
training, development on a project (help files), or testing a project.

Our company has right around 200 people. Everyone in the 
company fills out a time card (well, maybe the execs are exempt 
from this...). Accounting uses this information to determine how 
much a project costs to complete, and I know that my manager 
looks at the card to determine where I am spending my time.

> __Are you a lone TW or TW working in a group?

My situation is a bit different than some on this list. I am part of the 
software support group -- there are 5 of us. I am the only one in the 
group that does any tech writing, but I also do other things as well 
(training, some CS, hardware & software testing...). We have a few 
other tech writers who do the marketing stuff, but I don't work 
closely with them (other than to review their work).

> __What is your geographical locale?

UT

> __Any other comments?

I started working in 1981, and at every job I have ever had, I have 
had to account for my time. I worked about 8 years for the Georgia 
Tech Research Institute. GTRI did contract missile defense work for 
the US Army. We were required to report our time towards a project 
or to OH. The remainder of my jobs have been at private companies 
and time reports were used to track project costs.

Dana W. 


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Collect Royalties, Not Rejection Letters! Tell us your rejection story when you 
submit your manuscript to iUniverse Nov. 6 -Dec. 15 and get five free copies of 
your book. What are you waiting for? http://www.iuniverse.com/media/techwr

Have you looked at the new content on TECHWR-L lately?
See http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ and check it out.

---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as: archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot-  Visit 
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.