That is called double dipping and it's very much unethical.

Update op?

Anonymous wrote:Big D? That seemed commonplace when I was there. Are you the project manager? Is the partner the same across all the projects? Because the employees may have been instructed to bill accordingly from someone more senior.

This is fraud. They can't charge more than 8 hrs for a salaried position supporting Fed or state Govt. Call IG or other hotline for reporting fraud. You might be eligible for whistle blower award.

Anonymous wrote:Obviously you can’t be working on two projects at the same time. This is fraud plain and simple. We all multitask yes but at the end of the day you prob spend 30 min in one project 30 min in the other: this is why law firms bill in 6 min increments, to minimize these shenanigans. Unless they know how to turn back time.

True but in some cases the timesheet doesn’t allow the person to record hours worked after 5pm. Or, for whatever reason, the supervisor does t want any of the clients getting billed for hours outside of 8-5, or for non-consecutive hours— even if employee actually worked in project 2 for an hour (7am-8am) in morning, two hours in afternoon (noon to 2pm) and then answered emails about the project after hours at home (from 8pm-9pm). And so they’ve been told to just put it all in one time chunk of four hours from 1-4pm or 8am-noon even if those aren’t the actual times worked.

The basic idea is they worked 4 hours on each project. Do you know that they are NOT working 12 hours a day? Tbh, consulting work is not typically an 8-hours/day job so if be surprised if they worked fewer than 12 hours a day.

Sounds sketchy but for sake of argument, I could see this maybe being legit if the billing segments are large (billing in 15 minute increments) or if two clients are using the same person's all'day work (split the cost arbitrarily). But yeah, not good.