I have a bunch of really interesting things to work on, but I can't really work on any of them without feeling guilty because of billing issues. All the time I spend working I have to bill to a project, and each project has to have a ticket created. The work I have to do (which definitely has to get done at some point before the project it's for is finished) doesn't yet have a ticket created, so I'm not supposed to work on it.

Of course, I really want to work on it, so what I do is do the work for project A, and bill it to project B (which I can't work on yet [even though it has a ticket created], because of various reasons [like it depends on project A!]). So when the time comes that I actually have to do the work for project B, hopefully the ticket for project A has been created, so I can bill the time there.

I feel like such a jackass when I read Dilbert and say things like "Yeah, that's what it's like alright."