Once you agree to do a bunch of work for free, you will always be the one doing it in the future. I agreed to help out and do a lot of extra work after some colleagues left and the deadline approached. After that, I am now expected to always do so much work, even now that new hires have arrived. If I don’t do the work, they suddenly look at me like I’m slacking off. There are a lot of people who made that mistake, right?
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I dont do anything extra. Get paid the same no matter what. I never made the mistake at my store. Now we are short handed. Customers can wait. I am eating when I need to and going to the bathroom when I need to
Results dont matter , dont let these corporate ra ra micro managers tell you that these metrics/results matter
let these MF’ers know we dont give a flying F about your metrics or results
You’ll get the same “Performing” review as the guy who misses work twice a month and doesn’t answer his work calls.
@1aao+1d5HSLGW In regards to the retail store side of things, going the extra mile simply means showing up for work. The stores are still understaffed and basically the extra work is helping one customer after another with very little time to breathe.
Your manager/leaders will always give you more work than is reasonable. It is up to you to set the boundaries. If you want me to do this, I plan on dropping this, or plan on spending less time on this.
Do not commit to things you cannot possibly do. It makes you look worse v. setting boundaries any having those difficult discussions up front.
Yes they think the new hire means more work for the team and there is no relief for what you thought was temporary slack for you to pick up...Roles are poorly defined here and HR is clueless, they don't hire to replace lost people, every hire is a new hire and should get a new workload.