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Happy to see the replies all saying the same thing. They are right. Absolutely horrible, especially to the degree you describe. You have to speak out.
Where did the 100 hours number come from? Did the manager provide this or did you? If it’s you, provide the activity breakdown with time estimates against each item back to your manager in the order you’d actually complete them in, along with helpful options (a) I work and bill 10 hour days and here is what does and doesn’t get done, (b) I work on it with an SA or a peer and here’s the budget, hours, and output, or (c) I work and bill budgeted hours and here is what does and doesn’t get done (maybe for this option there are some activities you could recommend you add on as BD investment too to bring it to 40 hours a week).
My first assumption would be that either your SM has not realized the volume of hours needed or you are over scoping/ estimating- and this way it can be both of you against the line items, rather than against each other.
the 100 hours is just approximate, we were working from 8/9 am to midnight - 3 am for 2 weeks straight but i did make the mistake of not noting exact work products, deliverables etc completed daily. will do this going forward
This is absolutely not ok. Report this to your ethics and compliance team!
Yeah eating hours and be fully utilized is one thing but working weekends and only billing 24 atp is unethical SM can't say she doesn't know how many hours you're working. Should never be working that hard and it's impacting your utilization negatively
Charge the hours you worked. If she’s stupid, she’ll send you an email telling you the budget of hours and telling you to resubmit your time. That’s the documentation you need for E&C.
More realistically, going forward ask for the budget up front and get it in writing. If they won’t send it to you in writing, there’s a problem.
If you make the report to E&C, then dinging in the performance review would be de facto retaliation. Retaliation is actually much easier to prove than the original underlying offense. The measure for retaliation is would the action taken lead a reasonable person not to report the issue in the future.
No, there is no wild card when it comes to asking people to under report their time! Your gender has nothing to do with it and if someone is saying so, the firm has to be really stupid to believe that
Rising Star
Again, you wanna feel morally superior and deny the current reality? Be my guest. The current reality is that due process doesn’t exist. Maybe we move towards a world where equality and diversity don’t mean supporting a man in a conflict costs political capital, but it does today.
That doesn’t mean women are always on the wrong side and get away with it. It just means there can be consequences for supporting a man even when the facts are on his side these days. That’s where women used to be unfortunately. So, we have entered an era of over-correction. But we will eventually find the right balance.
I’m sorry this is happening to you. Pls document and report.
You need to report to ethics asap. Your mentor is giving bad advice and honestly this sound like its the general culture. Look for exit ops asap and report this. Sound horrible and unethical that EYP seems to be encouraging this in multiple directions.
Honestly if you even sense retaliation just get a lawyer. I know someone that walked away with six figure settlement after a company tried to retaliate after she called out racist manager making Asian people on his team super uncomfortable (he was doing it to all minorities but he had extra weirdness for Asian ppl)
Gross.
I think you mentioned this on the post I made. That's fked up :/
Chief
TIME TO EXIT
Rising Star
I hope you are a woman because she has a wild card to play if you complain these days.
Chief
Asking someone to eat hours is not ok. Talk to the partner
She is cray cray
You put it better than I did...nice and concise :)
Chief
Charge your actuals and send her an itemized breakdown of how much time each of the tasks took you. She may push back on how many hours you spent on them, but it’s more likely she has no idea what the level of effort was and isn’t very good at her job.
Chief
So charge your actuals, itemize what you worked, and ask her to put in writing that she’s expecting you to eat 70+ hours. Force the issue.
She’s asking you to commit fraud and shoot your own metrics in the foot to cover her ass. Make her sign her name to it.
Send her an email.
“Hey - I was surprised to see that I was only budgeted YY hours, when I feel that XX hours is really more reflective of the time I’ve dedicated to this project. Can you let me know why it seems lower than my time spent?”
Talk to your coach and RL. Mine went to HR because the ask for so egregious (which this is). HR went to the partners in my group and one of them let the manager/Partner on the project have it. Document what you’ve been asked to do and how long it takes, just in case you’re asked to “prove it”
14 hours work day for 14 days… wow. How are you still alive. Please bill actuals and tell the SM to F herself.
Yikes. Please report.
This sucks. Document and report. AND figure out how to avoid this in the future- clarify the actual allowable billable hours in advance and in writing. Set boundaries with your time (lots of late nights and early mornings isn’t ok). If you are working long hours, let your higher ups know that the actual work is more than was estimated and flag the budget risk (always in writing). Learn how to prioritize and communicate changes to priorities.
U can fire her.
Rising Star
Which firm?
EYP