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you never forget the moment someone spells it out for you. i used to work in local newspaper - and it was always a wild goose chase type of thing. You work fast because there is always some shit happening. Then i switched into marketing and started doing copywriting jobs. One day i finished the assignment in like an hour and the lead came to me and shared some wisdom “nah, you need to make some revisions and the revisions are SEND THIS SHIT FIVE HOURS LATER, HAVE SOME DIGNITY”.
The reward for efficient work is more work.
And of course the expectations that you always work that fast.
Oh, and complaints if you don’t work that fast, even if the new task is something completely different and takes more time.
The trick is doing the work quickly but making it seem like it took longer.
I did that for a while. Then I got bored with loitering around the premises for 8 hours every day. It’s not much of a benefit. There’s only so much time I can spend doomsscrolling before starting to wonder if I’m getting paid enough to waste my life doing that.
The better approach is to ask for more pay. There’s a couple of steps to that.
At the next salary review ask your boss what you need to do to get paid more. Being in a position where it appears as if you’re already strung out on critical tasks isn’t the best setup for asking for more work, so at least have the decency to show some surplus energy. This is how you make sure you’re paid for taking on more tasks.
If they don’t have anything else to offer, you can still ask them why they don’t pay you more for your current tasks. They’ll have no clue, so it’s likely that they’ll come up with something stupid, like “you don’t keep the trashbin empty” or whatever. You can then proceed to empty the fucking trashbin daily and then go ask for more pay. You can plan this move in advance by not emptying the trashbin for a while.
So I know, “we don’t have salary reviews”. Well, duh, of course not. You need to ask for that first, but hear this: Don’t ask for a salary review. Ask them when is the next salary review. This is the question you need to know the answer to for you to evaluate if you even want to spend your life in that place at all.
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Seriously, this comment is densely-packed with useful information.
The advantages of home office. Be quick and then just watch videos or play games lol
A Dutch writer coined a verb for that 'epibreren/to epibrate (loose translation).
It means ‘walking around looking busy’ but it sounds like something important, so when asked what you’ve been doing you can answer ‘i was busy epibrating’.
It makes the interlocutor feel like you’ve done something important, yet he’d feel silly about asking what it is exactly what you’ve been doing.
Classic. The only reward for good work is more work. Then management is surprised people deliver mediocre work and mediocre effort after they don’t get a raise (again).
Just remember that work sets you free.
Only do enough work to not get fired. Nothing more, nothing less.
FR.
You don’t get rewarded for good, fast, or high impact work anymore.
Why do it at all them?
I miss our company being small when hard work was rewarded.
Now we’ve got over 50 people and more management layers and it’s just… I’m not being compensated for that effort anymore, so why bother
life is much better with more personal time and less stress! although I do miss some of the overtime pay. easy decision when we’re supposed to be avoiding OT because of the market conditions though
My old job was a bunch of… idiots? Class traitors? Cowards?
Management would make noises about arbitrary deadlines and they’d all be like “we better work late tonight and through the weekend!!”
Did all that work and got nothing for it. Most of them still got laid off. Management still owns the company.
I had a boss who used to tell me “my job is to get the most out of you for the least amount of money”
I used to tell him “you’re paying me $12 hr, you get $12 hr of work out of me.”
When corporate doubled our workload and refused to let us hire more people he started getting up our asses about working harder, because the workload was piling up. I said “well, if the work doesn’t get done you and the other manager have to answer for it, not me, I’m still leaving at 5, figure it out.” My coworker and I were supposed to be doing the work that 5 people were doing at another location, and my coworker stood in solidarity with my open rebellion.
My boss had to do his job plus help me and my coworker with ours to keep corporate off his back :)
That’s nice. Corporate told us we’d need to do overtime every week to justify them employing another person. Our department leader told us to please do it. I just continue to do my contract hours and silently judge them for working too much, knowing their family isn’t happy about it. Instead of unionising and pushing for raises and shorter work hours, they’re letting the company treat them like slaves. I guess they all enjoy wasting their single life kissing the boot?
Most people will avoid confrontation no matter what.
Hierarchical work environments or “employeeism” teach you to not commit to more than what is expected of you - the likelihood of your own engagement being turned against you is always higher than the opposite.
Agile! Or is that scrum…
That’s why everyone quit when I quit. Greatest grift I’ve ever pulled. Didn’t help me at all, though.
Underperform but be nice and hope for a promotion
Always tell managers what they wanna hear, even when it’s bullshit
The image says not viewable in my region! Please be my eyes
Image of Scotty from Star Trek. Caption is saying “Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way. But the secret is only to give them what they need, not what they want.”
Does cutting and pasting work?
Presumably gotta be a different host. Our instance blocking the UK maybe? Cuz laws
It’s because it’s Imgur falling foul of UK’s silly online laws
Oh only checked source of the second comment, never expected Imgur on the first! Thanks :)
I’m very productive but never deliver too early. if i do something too fast i take my timw delivering… I don’t want people to expect much of me
I’m an independent contractor and I honestly don’t have many of the issues I read in this thread. I’m my own boss, deadlines are prescribed by state law, things are pretty nice.
But one thing I don’t do is deliver the work early. That’s a laid service in my line of work; you want it sooner, I’ll work nights and weekends to get it to you, and you’ll pay me extra money. When you start giving work early, people start to expect it, and the same people will always ask for an extra day or two here and there.
It’s Tom Servo!!!
One more reason I love working for myself. I got my shit done and dont have to be anywhere else? See you clowns im going to the house
I gave my oldest son (12-yo) this talk the other day. Hopefully he took it to heart.
The purpose is obviously what benefits them. Don’t you know you exist as a production machine to maximize your bosses profits?
I am always seeking to maximize shareholder value!
