The company has an obligation to find workers who don’t know their worth and continue to do more work without more compensation. Take the additional work, get them used to doing it, and get that raise at the next annual review, or leave.
This is why yesterday, after completing double the minimum expected work, I “worked from home” for the last two hours. Meanwhile, there’s a senior on the team who did a quarter of the work I did last quarter. And he gets paid more!
The company doesn’t care about you. The company doesn’t care about you. The company doesn’t care about you.
We don’t have time to do it right the first time, but we will make just enough time to redo it wrong a few more times before the customer complains loudly enough that the boss pulls someone from another job which will now not be done right because we don’t have time.
That dealing with the bullshit of clique social groups and the fallout of not falling in with them doesn’t end with high school. In fact, it gets even worse in the workplace.
During covid: the government paid me more than my employer to sit around and do nothing, so I had zero incentive to go back to work.
Lesson learned: Get a better employer
Sometimes it’s better if your employer doesn’t know everything you can do. If you’re not careful you’ll end up Inventory Controller/shipper/IT services/reception/Safety officer, and you’ll only ever be paid for whatever your initial position was.
I believe the exact same thing is true.
I have yet to see an employer even attempt to prove it wrong.
Showing up and working sluggishly is the most stable pattern. Getting it done quick and then relaxing only attracts attention and criticism, and as mentioned: More work for no increase in pay.
A central purpose of doing your job is to train yourself up to do the job you would prefer - either at the company you are with - or more likely at another.
Spend your time on interesting new skills
Just because someone has done a job a while means they do their job well.
Never do more than you are asked, especially for free
Same happened today morning. More work, more salary. My answer: no thanks.
If you get placed on a PIP (Performance Improvement Plan), it’s better to resign and look for another job than to fight the process.
The “family” talk is only just talk. If an employer says “we’re family here” or some similar nonsense, it’s not family as in “we stick together through everything” - what a family actually is or should be… It’s more of a farengi perspective…
Rule of acquisition 111: “Treat people in your debt like family… exploit them.”
And rule 6: “Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity.” (Which is also cited as “Never allow family to stand in the way of profit”)
Fact is, they want you to be family in the way that you’ll do anything for them, like you would for your own family. But when it comes time that you need them to help you out like a family would, they’ll show you the door very quickly.
Related: if you’re hit by a bus tomorrow, your job will be posted before your obituary. You’re just a cog in their money printing machine. As soon as you lose your value in that regard, you’re gone. If you slow down the machine too much, they’ll find a cog that is more easily lubricated (to push the analogy). If you’re broken and can’t work, they’ll replace you without a thought. Management is there to put a nice face on the company (for your benefit) and make it seem less like you’re a number; but that’s all you are.
How’s about this one: verbal abuse is acceptable if money, revenue, and/or a managerial hierarchy are involved! Thanks, capitalism!!
