Comments on: Employee of the Year

By: dubuc

dubuc — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:52:20 +0000

‘… work tends to flow to the competent person until he/she submerges’

one of the by-laws of Murphy’s

By: Jade Lynn

Jade Lynn — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:07:41 +0000

With decent jobs hard to come by I’ve seen people put up with a lot of BS just to keep their job lest they not have any job. I know someone in a toxic work environment whose been desperate for anything comparable, he’ll even take a pay cut but its been almost 6 months and no luck yet.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:52:33 +0000

I like what Scot says.

By: lauren

lauren — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:35:17 +0000

I want to know what her b@tch boss said!

By: Scot Herrick

Scot Herrick — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:16:32 +0000

The lesson here is that you need to know when a job will end – either there will be a layoff or the level of BS is so high that you won’t stand it any more (or work 11 hours a day and get paid for eight…).

You have to have that date in mind and consistently re-evaluate the date every month. There are enough warning signs out there (like all those co-workers leaving after four months) that you should be able to gauge where the work is going.

It’s OK to want to do wonderful work, but companies are in business to meet their business goals (including costs) and not interested in your goals. So you have to take this unemotional, hard-nosed look at what is happening on your job.

When the time of finding a job matches up with how long you expect the job to last, you need to start looking for another position.

This is not to bash this really crappy circumstance here; this happens all the time. The lesson is to not put up with it in the future.

How long will your position last?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:08:23 +0000

Isn’t it against most Labor Board regulations to require people to work without being paid like that?

By: Huh?

Huh? — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:19:50 +0000

I don’t understand why anyone would work without being paid. It’s not your business and you won’t be benefiting at all from those three hours a day, why do it? A weekend here, a night there, fine, but every day? Especially if the boss isn’t doing the same, anytime I’ve worked overtime my manager has sat in the office with me, even if there’s nothing for them to do.

I also really want to hear how the boss reacted when you quit!

By: Frau Blucher

Frau Blucher — Sun, 02 May 2010 12:09:37 +0000

Same here. If you’re not being paid for the work you do or hours you put in, you’re being screwed. There’s an old saying you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. I would just do what’s expected and no more. You’re not going to get personal fulfillment if you’re being taken advantage of.

By: SoloReflex

SoloReflex — Sat, 01 May 2010 08:42:01 +0000

I will never understand why people stick around when they are not getting paid for all the hours they put in but I’m glad to see that you left the boss with only 1 person to work 4 people’s jobs! That’s hilarious because you know pregnant boss was wishing she had hired a temp when that happened.

By: Call 911

Call 911 — Sat, 01 May 2010 05:30:45 +0000

I’m with Lisa on this one. The same thing happened with me at my current job.

I’m the administrator of 3 different programs and I’m (unofficially) being trained to take over another major program because they’re anticipating the person currently doing it getting a job elsewhere (lucky girl). It’s hard though because the work ethic I was taught doesn’t really allow me to be lazy or bad at my job – I’m always striving to do my best. But it’s really hard when I collect the same paycheck as the other people I work with but do 4 times as much work.

It seems like – when you’re good at your job, you aren’t rewarded for it with praise or benefits, you’re rewarded with more work being lumped on you. Then, your fellow coworkers (or mine, in this situation) purposefully do everything half-assed, poorly, or take forever to do it so that they don’t ever get extra assignments or tasks and they never get called out for it! Sorry – turned into a vent for my own crappy job, lmao!