Working stupidly hard

Pure_Cork wrote: »

Just learned a life lesson the hard way.

Do you pronounce that 'Pure Cawk'? Just asking, like.

Pure_Cork wrote: »

Just learned a life lesson the hard way.

If you work really hard for someone else, i.e. live to work, and do a good job, in most cases your employer couldn't actually care less. You won't get any more recognition than someone who works 9-5 doing an average job. And if you decide to work normal hours after breaking your balls for months previous they'll think less of you than the person working 9-5.

I wish more people would acquire this wisdom a little faster and leave themselves and everyone else a little happier and healthier

If you want to work yourself to the bone then at least do it for yourself rather than an employer who is after all more or less just using you

Pure_Cork wrote: »

No, because I don't talk like Jonathan Woss.

Plenty do.
On subject, I work for myself, so sometimes I got to work harder, sometimes I give myself a break. Sometimes there isn't the work so I have to work extra hard for a while when I do get work to make it up. There now.

Yep, you're only as good as your last five minutes to most employers!

Change employer.

Fcukin cat like boy

Maybe you should become an entrepreneur and get some other douchebag to bust his bawlz for you instead then.

BlatentCheek wrote: »

In fairness in some jobs working very hard does pay off and is appreciated, in most jobs however the opposite is the case. It's usually easy enough to tell which type of job your in

I think putting in extra hours gets noticed more in smaller companies, especially when the owners/directors are lurking around. Doing free overtime in big corporate multinationals is for the birds though.

I learned a similar lesson some years ago: you don't want to become indispensable. If there's something that only you can do - whatever it is - you're on the hook whenever it needs to be done. I resigned from a job because it was wearing me out, and the stress was doing weird things to me - and I haven't regretted it.

pixiebean22 wrote: »

I worked in one job where I went above and beyond what was required of me. I was always rewarded and my immediate boss was an absolute pleasure to work with. I was made redundant. I was picked above idiots in the same department, who did SFA, because I was the last one in. I loved that job and will probably never have a job like that again. I will certainly never work that hard again.

Right now I work for a woman that the entire South East legal community despise. Her time management is appalling. She expects you to go above and beyond every single day for no thanks, no rewards and you can readily expect a bollocking anytime she forgets something due to her appalling time management. She regularly says she has told you something or asked you to do something only to change her mind (your fault of course) and it'll be your own fault you wasted time doing the original task. Or, even worse, she'll say she asked you to do something when no such conversation occurred, just to cover her own arse.

She acts indignant when I leave on time and I get the cold shoulder the following morning when I do leave on time. We have a running joke in the office that you're on the "bold step" because we all feel like we're in primary school lol.

I worked for a gigantic gobsh1te similar to that once..........I found I had to train him to be a "normal" human being

the best tool I had at my disposal to do that at the time was email....if I was given an instruction which I suspected would be forgotten about and then denied I started the task and a bit in I would send a nice polite email (in the office - he was only about 3/4 desks away) just confirming I was doing the thing he asked me to do etc...

likewise if I suspected I would be blamed for not doing the thing he did tell me to do I would send an email asking him to confirm if I should do x,y, z task

he treated other people the same way, blaming them for his own fcuk ups but after a couple of times of me reminding the bolox he had replied to the email/given me the go ahead/told me to do something or indeed not replied when asked to confirm he stopped communicating with me in front of colleagues as he was losing face and started to be very careful and clear in his directions and instructions which were now emailed to me

my workload reduced dramatically as he actually had to think through the instructions he was giving or not giving, my office became a pleasant place to work in and a couple of months after that I got a promotion presumably so he could go back to being a gobsh1te in peace

the one thing I took from that is a written record of instructions given so you cant be blamed keeps you sane, keeps management on their toes and is invaluable if you can finagle a way to get it going without being confrontational (I very slowly worked my way into this system more to keep myself sane than anything and I was never insulting/snappish etc - it was always couched in almost sub-sub servient terms but still achieved a medium term objective of transferring blame for stupid decisions where they belonged with the actual decision maker......it was actually good for him in a way as he had to think about what he did and the possible consequences for himself with no-one else to blame - something he would have had to face sooner or later anyway)

+ this is only a tool for managing bullies/morons who don't really want to be in their jobs themselves you very rarely have to resort to anything like this with truly intelligent people as they are capable of organisation/planning etc