Managers dont even do the half ass work theyre supposed to anymore for their inflated salaries.

A lot of jobs that even require degrees and licensing are having managers ask people to find their own coverage. The managerial class is the ultimate fucking waste of space.

If you can do this to them, they can do this to you.

So take a sick leave when they do that.

My ex was so happy when they went to unlimited PTO, but she's overworked as it is and nobody does her job when she's not there, on top of her boss just dumping her work down on her. So she has to do extra work on the day before and after, so she just quit taking days off until HR told her she needed to take 4 days off in the next 2 weeks and that just meant 8 days of busting her ass, and she was livid.

That sounds like a whole lotta not my fucking problem.

Ah! Never worked high-stakes retail like that. I get it now.

Fucking yes! Hang in, get the experience they're paying you to steal, run away. It's crazy that people focus on employers fucking us when we can be fucking them!.

Oh no. Anyway.

She should just do less. Sounds like she's a good worker, they won't fire her. Standards are lower than we tend to think

I wish I had learned to jump ship sooner instead of swallowing so much bullshit. The social contract is dead. Right to work cuts both ways bitches. Quit with no notice when employers haven't done shit to earn your loyalty. The bridges we burn today light the path forward.

She has ADHD like me. She won't stop and she gets taken advantage of.

I went on 4 weeks of medical leave for surgery. I'm on week 3 rn. 3 days after my leave started, I learned it was an absolute shit show without me and work was piling up because there weren't enough people to do the big tasks and the many tiny little things that I do. I get told on the daily by my two work besties that they can't wait for me to come back because of how awful it has been without me. Apparently even the big boss was saying that my presence is missed and that I do so much more than he had realized. I just try to keep myself busy so boredom doesn't kick in.

Sounds like someone is due a raise

I asked for one and was laughed at and essentially told that management doesn't intend for me to get any kind of meaningful raises or advancement. I'm browsing for new jobs.

Good for you on leaving, and good luck with the search!

This is the problem with the idea that we should always be giving 110%. Companies should have enough people to deal with staffing issues. Wtf are they going to do when you die? Just fold the company and fire everyone?

Right? I don't give 110%. I just do my job. I heard that we're looking to hire another person because management finally realized we need it

Thank you!

any company that advertises unlimited PTO just don't bother applying. you'll never get that PTO and there's nothing to pay out when you quit. add to the fact that they're clearly saying "we prefer to hire idiots"

This is the lesson most fail to learn in their career: management will get by in the least amount of manpower required, and scrambling to keep all plates spinning just shows management you have the power to do so, even if you're only doing it half assed because some wide tie says it needs done.

I learned a decade ago that going above and beyond makes 'above and beyond' your normal. I will regularly sandbag at work when necessary to allow tasks to build up (along with keeping my sanity as intact as reasonable) while still getting core tasks completed. Because running myself at my peak all day every day will make me start prepping my Hemingway retirement plan, and who wants that.

Ask again when you get back, now that they know just how necessary you are. And if they still choose to say fuck you, don't work as hard as you keep looking. After all, you're still recovering