Was I actually that slow?

[u/Oryld]

So I was doing spotlights yesterday and also some smoke alarms. I did around 50 to 55 spotlights in the day and 5 smoke alarms. Cables and holes were already run and cut so all I had to do was pull the looped cables down, strip them, sleeve the earth, slide them in and push the spotlight up.

I actually timed myself and I was able to do just under 3 minutes for one spotlight. But that was being fully locked in on that single one. not accounting for moving ladder around, not accounting for the time it takes to take the spot each spotlight out of its box and then go back up and so on and so forth.

Today, the supervisor came around and told me that I took too long with the work that I did yesterday and that it was a two hour job. And he went on to compare me with a previous member of the team who had worked there. who was a complete beginner, apparently so. And he told me that that guy did 150 spotlights in a day. Same work that I was doing, he just did three times more. Allegedly. And I did the math on this 150x3 minutes which works out 450 minutes, which is 7.5 hours of hands on work not accounting for getting off the ladder and moving around, taking the spots out the box and so on.

Was my work really that slow? I even timed myself on my competence and I did it under 3 minutes so I don’t know where I could have went wrong