#WorkLifeBalance #UnfairWorkload #Teamwork #SmallBusiness #OvertimePay
Hey everyone, I could really use some advice here. 🙋♂️ I’ve been feeling incredibly overwhelmed at work lately and I need to figure out how to address it with my manager. Here’s the situation:
– I’m constantly being asked to work extra hours to make up for my coworkers not meeting their targets.
– I’ve never been shown how to claim overtime, and it’s never been mentioned.
– I’m feeling burnt out and it’s starting to impact my personal life and well-being.
I want to have a conversation with my manager about how I’m feeling, but I also don’t want to come across as not being a team player. Do you think my feelings are valid, or am I being unreasonable?
Any tips or suggestions on how I can respectfully approach this situation? I’d really appreciate some insight from those who have been in a similar position. Let’s help each other out! 🌟
Possible solution:
– Schedule a meeting with your manager to discuss your workload and how it’s impacting you.
– Be honest about how you’re feeling, but also offer potential solutions to alleviate the workload imbalance.
– Ask for clarification on overtime policies and make sure you’re being compensated fairly for the extra hours you’re putting in.
Can’t wait to hear your thoughts! 💬 #WorkplaceStress #CommunicationSkills
Would just stop working the extra hours.
Or work like 30 min extra.
If they approach you on it – say what you put here.
This is business and you need to stop worrying about feelings and comfort. First, confirm your assumption that you are overworked for your pay by looking at the job market. If it looks better, start applying and get ready to move. Next, if you do get a better offer, don’t negotiate for incremental improvements. Demand a promotion, higher pay and the opportunity to really fix the business. If you aren’t given what you ask for quit. It is your current management to keep staff motivated and fairly paid. Your job is to manage your career.
It sounds like you’ve been there a short time and the rest of your team has been there a lot longer. It’s easy to assume that the rest of your team isn’t trying hard/slacking. I would consider that they’re doing that for the following reasons:
1. The management environment has badly impacted team morale. They aren’t working longer hours because there’s no motivation to do so. And frankly, if they’re not hitting targets and there’s no penalty for that – there’s no reason to make the extra effort.
2. Your co-workers have more going on in their non-work lives that they have to balance. They don’t have the same life set-up as you, who just came out of college and has more free time and energy. They’ve wizened to creating work/life balance from themselves because your manager won’t create it for them.
Your manager sounds like a bad manager. They’re squeezing extra work out of you because they know you will submit to it whereas they’ve learned they can’t get that same thing out of other co-workers because they’re all wise to this game. Stop worrying about what your other team members are doing and approach it with way more empathy for them – they’re probably as burned out as you but have been at this job longer and have learned to push back passively. You can’t make them work more. You can only set more boundaries about your availability outside of work hours.
Also, look for a new job.
As soon as you express your true feelings about your job, you’ll probably be put on a PIP or be labeled as an underperforming whiner or both. If you are a salary employee, working over time hrs is normal performance and nothing special in your case.
Certainly Stop exceeding the targets…” Boss… i’m starting to feel like I’m being almost punished for meeting my quota, and I’m forced to work overtime and miss vacation because of my coworkers, inability to meet their quota. This is unsustainable for me… if we were trying to finish up a project but this seems to be ongoing and perhaps you need to hire an extra person or train everybody better, but I’m gonna need to stick to my hours”
Or
“ Boss I’m gonna be taking some college classes at night so I won’t be able to work overtime anymore”
You don’t. That’s the feature, not a bug. Instead lie about your availability and slowly begin to work slower.
I am sorry, not trying to be an a@@ but this is the only language they (most) will understand: find another job.
You, my friend, have to start to learn better boundaries.
First, stop comparing your work/hours to other people on the team. There could be many factors you don’t know about. Second, don’t work overtime, since you’re not paid for it. Third, sounds like you don’t like this job, don’t sound like a team player, and should solve this issue by working somewhere else. See if “missing out on work” is better than “missing out on life”.
“My number one priority is to deliver high quality results that help our team meet their goals, but I am beginning to feel like the increased workload will have detrimental effects to my performance if the pattern continues.”
And try to back that up with concrete examples that are not feelings-based. Keep it all about the work, not the personalities.
The point is to quit those types of companies. You have bad managements/employers who rewards overachievers with more work and enables poor performers. Those managers/employers didn’t care how its done, as long as it’s done and they don’t have to stress over it. Good managers/employers rewards overachievers and fire poor performers.
You need to set boundaries & learn to say no. Next time you go on vacation don’t logon to work, at all.
Don’t stay late if it’s not part of your contract and start looking for a new job asap.
Just say no.
You do know quotas increase by percentages and the boss gets a bonus for meeting that, right? He has also failed to pay your overtime, which pads his bonus. You need to speak to your payroll or hr person. You have some money coming up.
If they refuse and you quit head on down to the unemployment office and tell them you have not been paid your ot
It looks like they just use you. Put borders as soon as possible. Usually person does it right after being hired
I quit are the words that have traditionally been used
If you are an hourly employee, the company legally has to pay you overtime for hours worked over 40 hours per week. If you have records of these hours, you need to talk to the state labor board. If you are salary, then that is different.
You need to set boundaries that you will not work extra hours. YOu can tell them you have other commitments have to leave early. Let me tell you, this company will continue to overwork you as long as you let them. I would bet they have a high turnover rate because of this problem. They need to hire more people or make sure others are doing their share. At the end of the day, you allow what you accept.