It's a dog eat dog world. Your mistake was incorrectly assessing the incentives. You thought you were helping. But you were actually threatening to topple an existing power structure. Unwise.
A story.
A coworker ("Dan") automated his timesheet reporting, allegedly for "budgeting", something we all hated doing. Dan would select some project codes, target hours worked for the week, choose percentages, and his macro would randomly fill out a time sheet.
The kicker was he used increments of 5 minutes (vs quarter hours, whatever).
Meanwhile, his office mate ("Stan") kept meticulous time sheets. Actually honest.
A few weeks later, Dan gets recognized and rewarded for his awesome time sheet. A role model for us all.
(Stan flips out. I mean really loses it. It was hysterical.)
So. Were I you working in that environment, I would have mimicked your output with the macro(s). Same error rate. Same time duration. Let it run in the background while you're doing something else more enjoyable. Maybe dial the accuracy or finish time up and down so you'd occasionally get a perk. Like a dog gets its treat.
If you wanted to be really subversive, you could share your tool with some favored coworkers. Strictly quid pro quo, because your "friends" are the first to screw you over. So make sure you have dirt on anyone you help.
We would track the hours, but there were some requirements in the reporting that prevented us from handing our report
And in the end it was the total amount of hours that mattered
So instead of manually writing it down (yes, it was an html page template that we printed and filled manually)
Here comes python to save the day! Input the total amount of hours, it will fill the HTML with the hours at a standart schedule and skipping over weekends and holidays
A story.
A coworker ("Dan") automated his timesheet reporting, allegedly for "budgeting", something we all hated doing. Dan would select some project codes, target hours worked for the week, choose percentages, and his macro would randomly fill out a time sheet.
The kicker was he used increments of 5 minutes (vs quarter hours, whatever).
Meanwhile, his office mate ("Stan") kept meticulous time sheets. Actually honest.
A few weeks later, Dan gets recognized and rewarded for his awesome time sheet. A role model for us all.
(Stan flips out. I mean really loses it. It was hysterical.)
So. Were I you working in that environment, I would have mimicked your output with the macro(s). Same error rate. Same time duration. Let it run in the background while you're doing something else more enjoyable. Maybe dial the accuracy or finish time up and down so you'd occasionally get a perk. Like a dog gets its treat.
If you wanted to be really subversive, you could share your tool with some favored coworkers. Strictly quid pro quo, because your "friends" are the first to screw you over. So make sure you have dirt on anyone you help.