A commissioned study
Overtime and idle-time mapping
Overtime that nobody can point to on a map is just a mood. This study pins extra hours and idle minutes to places: the Friday dock, the wrapping table after 16:00, the spare counter that is staffed because it was staffed last year.
We read the overtime book, the clock cards if you have them, and the week you choose. Then we stand in the places the numbers already accuse. The plates are fewer than in a full briefing — usually four to six sheets — and the sitting is shorter. Supervisors often pin the idle-time plate next to the kettle.
We will not recommend dismissals. We will mark, in a caption, when idle time is waiting on a truck that is late from another firm. That caption has saved more than one argument in a Tbilisi yard.
If your overtime is paid in cash envelopes with no book, say so before we quote. We can still map idle minutes from observation; we cannot invent a book you do not keep.