Posted on 08/24/2022 8:27:24 AM PDT by Brookhaven
You're welcome. Same to you.
Well said!
Why is Gen Z doing it? Because they’ve learned by watching their Baby Boomer parents bust their chops all their lives, going above and beyond to excel at every opportunity at work, only to be given a severance package and an escort out the door when the whims of upper management changed or the company got bought and reorged.
I think maybe the Gen Z kids are smarter than we are. All that going above and beyond and working nights and weekends to make a deadline ever did for me was to set a new low bar and management expectation for the *next* project. I hope my kids, when they get to my age, will be looking back on a lifetime of happy memories with *their* families, and not regretting every time they shortchanged their family for the benefit of their employer and their so-called career.
Bingo
Well, I must have been ahead of the curve...
When people would ask me what I do for a living, I would say:
As little as possible, and still get a paycheck.
Actually the worst thing is to watch someone who cared about the company, worked over and above getting laid off while a slacker who was good at schmoozing the boss kept their job.
One of the things I’ve seen most often is management that cut muscle instead of fat.
Working to Contract - not new - subgenius even.
They do not care about you in most cases.
Many companies are run by grifter sh-tbags, treat them accordingly!
Not just GenZ. I have scaled back in my work life. Still maintain the quality of work but the volume has been throttled back. If you continue to give, they will take and at the end of the year you might receive the 2% raise to help offset the increase in premiums for benefits. I still work 45-50 hours a week, but don’t ask me to check in on the weekends, unless it is a real emergency. I was offered a promotion that had a small increase in pay, I declined as the position is pretty much 7 days a week. Only a couple hours on the weekends, but still work.
I don’t disagree with the concept.
No.
That is the bullsh-it companies shovel to use you up and throw you away.
No thanks scumbags!
I’ve well learned that working your ass off doesn’t equal increased pay and benefits, rather it only leads to management leaning on you more and expecting you to cover for the less productive employees.
Agree with what you wrote. You are now just a number on a managers p&l. And they mostly consider you a in the l column.
I’m a gen Xer and have been at my same employer for nearly 30 years. Early on I discovered above and beyond meant nothing as well as their promises of go the extra mile, get that degree or certification it will help you with the company-it did not.
I have come in and did my job the best I can in all that time, however it meant no volunteering for extracurricular activities, no I don’t want to contribute part of my paycheck to the president of the companies favorite charity etc... I make sure my department is good at what it does, I give them a fair days work for a fair days pay, but they have shown above and beyond means squat to them. Oh they will take it and not give you so much as a well done, in fact they will ask for more.
I had an employee I hired in my department a really great worker, a gen Xer and she would complete all the duties I would give her quickly and correctly and I praised her efforts knowing she would not be recognized outside of my praise. I was in charge of another department as well and she took interest in that and I moved her to that department and it was a thankless job, odd hours, little relief etc... And she did it all really great, with no benefits which she knew going in and I would give her days off with pay for staying in the trenches and getting the job done it was the only way I could reward her efforts.
Eventually IT hired her and I told her they will work you hard and the more you do the more they will pile on you and you will not be rewarded, keep this in mind, they will burn you out. She didn’t believe me and I would see her from time to time and she was staying late, coming in early with more and more duties and the same pay. Finally after seven years she walked in and said I realize what you were trying to tell me. I can’t even do the basic job anymore I am so burned out. She turned in her notice, worked it out and with a wealth of networking and IT knowledge turned down other jobs in those areas to become a teachers aide in kindergarten.
I take pride in making sure my department does what it is supposed to but loyalty is a one way street with my company and it always has been.
Payouts, you talk about payouts ruining morality? Joke!
Before there were payouts to workers there was a corporate tax cut. The corporations kept the 18% for themselves. They did not pass it on to their workers. Most used it for stock buy backs.
Thats usually where it goes where I work.
Then why should they care about you?
They never have. Inflation-adjusted wages have been stagnant since 1971 even as companies have laid off and offshored like made, and the GDP has increased 400%.
The money has gone to executives, hedge-fund investors, gargantuan new government bureaucracies, and welfare queens and illegal immigrants.
Troll.
Calling George Costanza. Please pick up line 1, 2, or 3 😁
It’s true of the vast majority. It’s certainly true enough that a company who doesn’t operate that way is the exception and not the rule.
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