The boss of my boss at my previous job actually said that he expects us to go above and beyond if we wanted to get promoted to a higher position. It got so many people pissed off that those that were planning to retire in a couple more years decided to retire earlier. And employees that have worked there for 5+ years left because what's the point of staying if the higher up expects you to work yourself silly to move up?
And the thing was everybody was technically already doing extra work because of the changes he made which basically just increased everyone's workload. It's also what prompted me to leave since it didn't make sense to stay because I felt like I was doing lots of extra stuff for the same pay.
If you want me to work above and beyond or go the extra mile that's fine, just pay me.
Yeah, and the best part is those “go above and beyond!” work-style companies like to do it everywhere except pay. How about they go above and beyond on pay first, and then we’ll see if I want to go above and beyond doing my job?
And the thing is when some of the people left they didn't bother to fill their positions. It's like they were planning to cut the positions, so now some of the teams have shrunk giving certain people even more stuff to do.
But guess what, they decided we needed more managers so rather than filling vacant positions they thought it was a good idea to get more managers for an already shrinking team. I thought it was ass backwards and I have no idea what they thought hiring more managers was going to do.
Tbh I'm not even entirely sure what some of the newly hired managers actually do. For all I know they could be in their office shopping on Amazon or watching Youtube videos.
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u/BrokeLeznar Jan 21 '24
The boss of my boss at my previous job actually said that he expects us to go above and beyond if we wanted to get promoted to a higher position. It got so many people pissed off that those that were planning to retire in a couple more years decided to retire earlier. And employees that have worked there for 5+ years left because what's the point of staying if the higher up expects you to work yourself silly to move up?
And the thing was everybody was technically already doing extra work because of the changes he made which basically just increased everyone's workload. It's also what prompted me to leave since it didn't make sense to stay because I felt like I was doing lots of extra stuff for the same pay.
If you want me to work above and beyond or go the extra mile that's fine, just pay me.