Every job I’ve ever had. I do good work so I succeed but if I don’t get promoted out of it I’m always forced to find a different job eventually to reset my workload. This is also how I get more significant pay raises though so it works out.
I learned my lesson, and from day 1 at my current job I held myself back. If I could do something in an hour, I took 3, and if I found a new way of doing things that speeds things up, I kept it to myself. For the first time in my life, I’ve managed to keep a normal workload and not get burned out with an ever-moving goalpost every time I exceed my manager’s expectations. I thought it might put a target on my back when it came to layoffs, but at least for now it seems that my manager appreciates that he knows exactly how much work I can do in a week, and I get good yearly reviews and fair raises.
Reminder that if you do not get a raise each year equal to the rate of inflation, you have effectively taken a pay cut.
corrollary (not enough coffee to remember how to spell or edit, red line do your thing i ain’t gonna google how to spell i got a cat on my lap and my dictionary is holding up a couch five feet away) reminder: work your wage. you don’t get a raise, you do a little less.
The amount of work checks out, 7 work in the first frames, and then 7 are added, to have 14 work in the final frame.
An important detail IMO. It would have bothered me for the rest of the day otherwise. 🤣🤣🤣There’s a missing panel where the off-comic other employee is laid off, which is where the additional work comes from.
We wait for employees to quit, get injured, or transfer to a another location so we don’t have to fire them and look like a business trying to downsize. We just fail to hire replacements and offload the work to the poor suckers who are stuck by circumstances. 🤡
Have you thought about… training AI to do your job so that I can fire you sooner? Yeah, that would be great 👍.
managers are the successors of slave drivers. responsible for overseeing the workers do a good job.
But their incentives are to reduce wage cost, even if that comes at the cost of bad quality work, high turnover, hiring and training cost. But those costs are not their department so they don’t count.
I am thankful that I have a job that really doesnt mind taking rest-outs. All yiu need is to get the stuff done
my best boss, well there were ten of us at the firm but the first thing i had to do was convince him to let me telecommute when telecommuting wasn’t a thing (i was his best bookkeeper. no, best employee. and i was graduating high school and leaving for college. it was ten minutes extra work on their end per client to scan the supporting documents, back up every client onto a zip disk, encrypt the zip disk, test the zip disk to make sure it wasn’t corrupted, send me three because if you remember those shitty zip disks looking at them wrong on your gods they were the worst piece of technology but we got it to work and we now were offering scanned records as a standard service for their bookkeeping and i don’t think even PriceWaterhouse was doing that in 1997 (do you remember 30 years ago well?). So, like best boss but also best employee.
i got to do whatever i wanted at that firm as long as i got the work done.
We are all raised to the level of our incompetence. The more you show what you can do, the more they want you to do.
You were doing 50 reps a minute before why have you slowed down? You know youre not acting very grateful, is this quiet quitting? By the way theres more work coming because another guy just quit so you need to take on his load too until we replace him, but you better go twice as fast to make sure we dont miss anything. Im sure we’ll definitely replace him soon we wont just not bother when we find out you can do it all all the time alone. Can you come in Saturday too?
This is why, later in my career, I refused promotion to management. Your co-workers, including your bosses, pretend to like you, albeit for different reasons, and talk shit about you behind your back.
Had I known they were all doing that anyway, I might have taken the position when offered. I didn’t like the idea of doing the bosses’ dirty work, though, while they stayed in their cocoons.
Typical
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