No, our data is used for similar things, except not invoicing - I’m one of the very very few people in my dept. that invoices per hour. For this, I get to manually pull each of my weekly timesheets, add up all my hours spent on that project, put all that into a spreadsheet I built to track the PO value, and then submit that to be invoiced. I’m sure our fancy timesheet system has the capability to automatically collate my hours, but I don’t have access to it. Yay.
Also, I have checked that monthly is fine for our timesheets, I only get nagged if I missed one of the approvals at the start of a month, so I’d still be in your good books
Its been an interesting week. Had to rush off to a mine on Tuesday. Wait around until 12PM on Wednesday to get entry into the Red Area, then drive home on Thursday.
If it’s not too confidential, could you share over DM what mine, and what work you had to go do? I’m just curious, so feel free to ignore the question, though
It was all very rushed. Didn’t even do MIE fingerprints in Joburg, did them at the mine in the morning. It was just the visitor’s induction, after that the medical (also visitors) was an issue. We were not on the system yet. Then still had to wait for criminal checks to come in to allow us into red area.
The reason for the visit, to inspect an offgas system that doesn’t work. Ducting is packed full with PM and crystals. Mine name in PM.
Ineffective maintenance tactics would be my first guess. You’ve got the fun job of trying to figure out if it’s equipment, tools, training, tactics, malicious, or just mother nature…
Busy working on estimating and take-off user experience map and journey mapping frameworks, I think I have estiablished a good compromise of the two of them that I am happy with, and still provides visibility for insights, data, and ideas for improvements.
Haha very very valid question. It’s one of the biggest pain points in the industry how dependant especially estimators and QS are on Excel. As such we’ve built a custom grid to maintain a lot of that intrinsic behaviour and muscle memory that many of the users would expect. Obviously it ain’t a like for like but with our values and added benefits.
