If a manager ever told me I needed to work unpaid overtime and sacrifice my life outside of work, I'd start job hunting the same day.
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@ab yes good advice. I am close to retirement and have started being more frugal and living very simply. I feel such relief knowing I’m almost done and will have saved enough because of this change in lifestyle..
@ab yes and for those of us close to retirement- you keep up the quiet quitting plan. I used to stay late , help customers and not get paid for this. Guess what - it was not appreciated and made me more stressed. When you have supervisors , Sr. Managers who are lights out at 5, don’t communicate well and claim they are still learning after almost a year on the job . Oh and 20 years with Verizon but in sales and do nothing to lead, manage or help the team- with a heavy workload ,—-NOPE….done. It’s soooo frustrating…..and he’s got his hands behind his head in meetings, always giving us back the gift of time …nah done…
Eventually it becomes unbearable, but they supposedly have enough data to know exactly how much pressure they can put on people before they push back.
The irony is that many people are afraid of losing everything when, in many ways, they’ve already lost it. Their time, their leverage, their purchasing power, their peace of mind.
If that’s the reality, let it come down. Go back to a single-income household if you can. Cut spending. Simplify. Stop tolerating things solely for material survival.
At some point, self-respect has to matter more than keeping up appearances.
@OP you call the ethics hotline and get everything in writing.
Uhh asking someone to do that is illegal, so if that actually did happen and wasn't just some drunk fever dream then it would be a big payday if the person wasn't salary.