Devaluation, Work Overload and Pressure

the14thwarrior

Ironically those in public service, and there are many many great workers and true "civil servants" manage to play the game and get good things done. Whilst working in a good team, mentoring others, watching others lead and go onwards and upwards, and to be honest, we need those people.

after five months if you can't see that vision, those people, those services, respect management, acknowledge experience and learn, you'll end up stupid like the rest of them.

dennyk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122688809#Comment_122688809

Email is inherently an asynchronous form of communication; it matters not one single bit what time an email was sent if you aren't reading it until your normal working hours the next working day. Maybe the manager is a workaholic, or is a chancer trying to look like a workaholic by sending overnight emails on a timer, or maybe they're just an absent-minded insomniac who woke up at 2AM and realised they forgot to send an email that day, but either way it isn't the recipient's issue. The recipient has the ability to refrain from checking their work emails after hours, so they will see the message the next time they log in whether the manager sent it at 3AM or one minute before the worker's shift began.

Now, if the manager starts demanding (or there is an implied expectation) that a worker immediately responds to those emails at any hour of the day or night, that would be a clear violation of the right to disconnect. Doesn't sound like that's the case here, though.

ongarite

The OP sounds and reads like a LinkedIn lunatic post than a real person & not the way an Irish person would talk or interact IMO.

caviardreams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122697345#Comment_122697345

Agree. Thread gives chat GPT / troll vibes

nearby_cheetah

Are you Irish OP? There is something off about your attitude in an Irish workplace, especially an Irish public service workplace.

I agree with Mrs OBumble. For God's sake don't come into a new workplace spouting ideas and suggestions all over the place. Your wasting everyone's time and will earn the label as just a loud "upstart".

Be quiet and get on with your work.

PreCocious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122686726#Comment_122686726

Without discussing the post in questions it should be noted that Flexi is a privilege and not a right. Managers can/will/should ask for people to work outside core hours in order to provide services within the organisations normal working hours.

I'm finding the term "my seniors" curious. I've come across it before but can't quite place it

Flinty997

Regardless of the origins of the OP posts.

They describe some very poor work culture in their organisation, verging on toxic. I certainly wouldn't be so closed off to a new persons new ideas, fresh experience might bring with them.

Certainly new guy wanting to change everything is very common, and isn't always appropriate, but still I wouldn't be shutting them down so hard.