I was tracking labor hours wrong for a whole job in Denver

We were finishing up a six unit townhouse build and the budget was way off... I kept looking at the weekly totals thinking we were okay. Then my lead foreman pointed out I was only counting the crew's eight hour days, not the extra two hours of overtime they were putting in every single day. That added up to over 300 hours we hadn't accounted for across the whole project. I felt like an idiot because the numbers were right there on the daily sheets, I just wasn't adding them right. Has anyone else messed up their time tracking this bad and how did you fix it for the next job?

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fisher.reese1mo ago

Your foreman should have caught that sooner.

sarah_brown1mo ago

Feel for you, that's a brutal way to find out. We've all missed details in the paperwork before.

violafox1mo ago

Honestly when you said "missed details in the paperwork" it made me realize how common that is now. Tbh we're all moving so fast we just skim everything, like terms of service or even instructions on a box. I've totally bought the wrong thing because I didn't read the full product description. It feels like our brains are just trained to look for the bold print and ignore the rest.