[nottorp]

Last time shit like that was required in a job i had i always ended it with "and i spent the last hour of the day writing my daily report".

If your manager can't evaluate your performance based on what you do not what you say, it may be better to change the manager.

[leetcrew]

daily reports are obviously bullshit. a lot of days I would have nothing to say but "I tried 8 things and none of them worked".

on the flip side, regular reports on a more reasonable schedule can be good for the employee. sometimes I'll spend a whole week hard at work investigating/testing different approaches to fix some bug and end up submitting a one-line change. without the backstory, it might look like I sat on my hands all week and started work friday afternoon.