This is why everything seems like a huge deal to you. This is why you'll never become a top dog in the firm. This is why you call me at 11:52pm and ask me to put out a fire by 2am. That fire being nothing more than corporate red tape that could wait to be completed tomorrow, won't be reviewed til next week, won't be used til next month.

Perspective. You lack it.

/updating LinkedIn


/manopause engage

12/1/2011 9:17:59 AM

Sounds like my work right now.

12/1/2011 9:23:21 AM

yeah, my phone rings at 11:52p.m. and its work related, Bobby ain't answering.

12/1/2011 9:36:49 AM

It's ok the first few times but now it's 3-4 nights a week

12/1/2011 9:36:52 AM

Thats because you let it happen the first couple times. That lets them know its ok.

12/1/2011 9:40:56 AM

If you can't spot the bitch....you're the bitch

12/1/2011 9:42:10 AM

no prod support for me!

12/1/2011 9:43:48 AM

Lacking backbone in the workplace

12/1/2011 9:43:51 AM

Meh, just another ClassicMixup.

12/1/2011 9:48:52 AM

Quote :

"It's ok the first few times but now it's 3-4 nights a week "

It's like the fire never stops burning, amirite?

12/1/2011 10:17:42 AM

Meh I didn't say I ended up doing it. I was pleasantly distracted by some sexy time

12/1/2011 10:18:40 AM

^^lol insert STD joke but yeah that's about right.

12/1/2011 10:19:49 AM

this is why I love being self-employed.

12/1/2011 10:54:44 AM

12/1/2011 10:56:58 AM

bumpety bump...who has two thumbs and was right about the "fire"...literally haven't stopped working since I made this thread though


fml

12/2/2011 2:19:02 AM

I can count at least four times that you've stopped working since you made this thread

12/2/2011 7:00:08 AM

Charge 8.99 per minute after 5pm.

12/2/2011 7:46:43 AM

Is this your fulltime job now? Did you graduate?

12/2/2011 8:16:37 AM

fuck that. people are too willing to work above what they're paid for, for a company that does not give a shit about them.

12/2/2011 8:21:03 AM

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"This is why everything seems like a huge deal to you. This is why you'll never become a top dog in the firm."

That's one theory. Another is that they promote the types where everything is a big deal and the types that receive a project at 8:00AM, sit on it the entire day, and hand it off as MISSION CRITICAL at 4:59PM. Keep in mind, the people above them only see that things are getting done, not how they are getting done or who is really doing it.

^That's certainly today's climate. Companies don't care about employees... you'd think they would be concerned with employee attrition but they don't care about that either. Of course a terrible economy helps facilitate. "We'll find someone that will" is always the great morale booster.

[Edited on December 2, 2011 at 8:24 AM. Reason : -]

12/2/2011 8:21:07 AM

Quote :

"Thats because you let it happen the first couple times. That lets them know its ok."

lol yep. Made that mistake at my first real job.

12/2/2011 8:22:23 AM

Quote :

"That's certainly today's climate. Companies don't care about employees... you'd think they would be concerned with employee attrition but they don't care about that either. Of course a terrible economy helps facilitate. "We'll find someone that will" is always the great morale booster."

Yep. I consider myself very lucky to be working in a place where overtime is not expected, and the owner is actually loyal to his employees, not just the other way around.

12/2/2011 9:06:54 AM

^Same here, I love my company.

12/2/2011 9:11:32 AM

The important thing is to know when to go above and beyond and have the result be that you're perceived as a high performing individual vs. going above and beyond and being perceived as a doormat.

I see it every day at work, and there are few who get the distinction.

12/2/2011 9:44:37 AM