Don't treat your employer better than they treat you. Apply this to everything in your job to overtime to quiting your job. And don't forget about the joy, time and stress the company has stolen from you.
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I sort of stopped working about 5 years ago, two years into CDE. Not because I wanted to, but because nothing I did seemed to make any difference. At this point they might as well just nuke the site from orbit. They've already killed it.
@SiVbFgU-1oia - first, I am not a troll. Just getting that out of the way. If you have come to the realization that you and the company have diverged in ways that matter (customer service, employee treatment, morality) then by all means leave if you can. The company woke up and realized it was a business. What type is going to be the question moving forward. I used to be a team player and volunteered to take extra work to help out others, went to help out other area that were hard hit, worked a crap ton of overtime. Now I have seen the big reward in Fire Proximity. The staffing decisions were made based on zip code, not your job performance, not how much you carried the team, just a random 5 numbers within a random territory designed by someone that has no idea who I am. A lot of good workers are losing their jobs while a number of people I helped to carry are fine. Here is where I am going with this: If there are areas that your interest and the company's interests overlap - such as getting the work done, by all means I recommend treating them like they treat you, just a number. In this case, a large paycheck with a lot of overtime. They have already told us that quality doesn't matter, Just work a lot and profit. The joke will be on them...
Leadership thinks the workforce will still give 110 percent effort as they have done for previous decades. Wrong. NO ONE gives 110 percent effort for a leadership who betrays them. When the next massive hurricane hits, buckle up buttercup....
This company does not deserve extra effort.
I've always been a "company man". I always went the extra mile, because I cared about SF.
But... what OP said now hits home. SF is finally treating us more like most businesses do - as compensated, expendable resources. That's the way of the modern world.
So I am starting to take care of myself first. I'll do my job, but I will just solve the immediate problem and move on. I can't continue knocking myself out trying to do the "optimal" thing that will benefit the company long-term. Honestly, I have just lost the capacity to care about State Farm. This "company man" has checked out.
I am NOT a fan of what is going on right now (more accurately, how it's going on). Having said that, if you get a chance to feather your nest with a little OT and have the capability to take it, I would. Matter of fact, I'm hoping I can go deployable so I can pick up some of that OT. I'll earn it, I guarantee you that, but it would still be nice. Oh, and if leadership (if that term can actually be used) thinks I'll ever put down that I clocked out for a lunch when I'm eating on my way to my next appt, they can forget it (man I LOVE a VPN). That's why executive thinks we can cut 38% of our claims staff. I thought I was helping the company. I was wrong. I'm owning my share of this mess. I promise, I've learned my lesson.
This has nothing to do with the company. It’s a personal choice. Something important that we teach our children.
Like the company has ethics.
Wow. What a work ethic.
Agree. No more bending over backwards to do OT to dig out. No more extra for them. Do my job plain and simple for 7:45 and go home. No more caring or trying to do more.
It's a job. No more than a factory job. We punch a clock and basically do line work.