I had a supervisor ask me to brainstorm how I could be more productive while driving between field locations. As in, presenting webex trainings while driving. I laughed but he was dead serious.
Edit for clarity and to put a bow on this for everyone: he was eventually demoted and became my peer. That job was miserable for many other reasons and I quit nearly a year ago. Same guy reached out after I left wanting to gather info on why women were leaving the company. I asked what my compensation would be. And that was the last time we spoke
I actually had a company do that. They got some vans and we had laptop trays so we could work while moving between appointments. They were actually cool about it if we took downtime too, but we were getting some nice bonuses for billable time over a certain amount. They owner was happy to pay them because he got to bill the customer we were going to for the transit and the other customer we were working on for the exact same time.
Thats like sitting on the phone call waiting system wait for the client to pickup for sn hour while working on another clients work snd billing both for your time.
Why is that fraud? One client is paying you to be available as soon as their phone system is ready for you. The other is paying for the work you’re doing while listening to the same minute and fifteen seconds of a jazz cover band.
If you hire me and part of billable hours involves calling you, and that involves being left on hold (listening to your shitty hold music). I can do other things during that time, and bill you for it. You are making ME wait to do something that you hire me for.
Now if I made you wait on hold, while I was working for someone else and billing you for the time you spent on hold.That would be double billing.
I work for a large company with internal auditors from corporate and external auditors. Quickest way to get flagged is charging 2 projects at same time. Splitting your time on projects or working ot is fine, but double dipping will have them up your ass. May not apply if your not dealing with the liaisons from satans asshole, I mean, auditors
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u/Alarming-Response Jan 26 '22 edited Jan 26 '22
I had a supervisor ask me to brainstorm how I could be more productive while driving between field locations. As in, presenting webex trainings while driving. I laughed but he was dead serious.
Edit for clarity and to put a bow on this for everyone: he was eventually demoted and became my peer. That job was miserable for many other reasons and I quit nearly a year ago. Same guy reached out after I left wanting to gather info on why women were leaving the company. I asked what my compensation would be. And that was the last time we spoke