Time Theft

[CHIPPY RAY]

Hi thanks for the replies. My situation is , it is alleged I took to long to do some jobs. There is no performance schedule in place to say how long a specific type of job should or should not take. In the building trade it is not always easy to put a specific time to a job especially in maintenace work. For instance changing a lock, if it is a like for like change over I could do that job in say 15 minutes, but I would book an hour to that job. This time would include traveling to the job, sourcing the lock from stock, testing, clearing up, ect. Now if I did not have a similar lock in the stores or could not get a similar one I would have to cut the door to fit the new lock and travel to get the new lock. This time, the hours on my job sheet would be say 2 hours. Yet both the sheets would read say "repair faulty lock" The job sheet would show I used a new lock but nowhere would it show how the time difference occurred. Auditor looks at the two job sheets looks at the two jobs, sees a new lock fitted to both jobs but one took one hour the other two hours. HA! HA! he thinks Time theft.

[ukaviator]

I see, maybe the boss would like you to break the speed limit as well getting to the jobs more efficiently. At the end of the day if you can do the job safely, to a high standard, he may have to look at the way the job cards are written, also see if the times given to do the jobs are reasonable.

Your boss could hire a time study expert for a couple of days. This way he will get independant advice, as long as you have nothing to hide, it maybe to your advantage.

[MARTIN3030]

2 threads merged please try to keep together.