(October 20, 2018 at 7:47 am)Khemikal Wrote: Sounds like your boss has a manpower problem. He should hire someone to satisfy the workload. Anyone he fires will only increase the deficit between his labor requirements and his projected labor hours (and cost). Probably, at an increased rate of pay and decreased rate of quality and productivity. The smart manager only asks someone to do "a little extra" once or twice, while they light a fire under HRs ass.
Not that the world is full of competent managers, ofc.
My strong point is dependability. I don’t waste a fucking second and they know that. Weak point is flexibility. They know that a replacement probably won’t be available for the extra shit either because in my position they’ve had a long stretch of people who worked far slower or fucked around all day but I get that managers can get hot headed if you’re not flexible. Getting through the day often overrides the big picture and that could cause trouble for an employee with my attitude. But to put numbers on it, flexibility means 60-70 hours if you just keep saying yes. My goal is to work about half that much. I’m not on salary btw. It’s a difficult place to manage because the business isn’t always predictable. It ebbs and flows. People on this board are smart so they’re likely on the management side of this equation which might be why the responses I’m getting are less sympathetic than I expected. I figured on a more fuck yeah work sucks living for the weekend attitude. But I also think there’s a bitterness from people not willing to fight for a fair work/life balance.
