I don’t even know anymore why I did so much unpaid overtime. In fact, there are a lot of people here that I know who do extra work for hardly any reason.
The problem arose when I decided to set boundaries and stop working extra for nothing. The boss didn’t say anything but I can tell he’s noticed the change and doesn’t seem too happy about it.
I guess they expect us to work unpaid overtime forever?
When you go the extra mile and agree to do a bunch of work for free it becomes expected of you. When you finally decide to stop, it looks to management like you're slacking and have developed a bad attitude.
What floats at the top of a cesspol
Time to move on
Look, it’s simple, you don’t have to work extra hours, you just need to appear to work extra hours. He-l, if you’re in sales, you can appear to work regular hours as well.
First up, while your morning cup of joe is percolating and you’re scratching your nuts, be sure to send out some early morning emails to various district managers telling them what a bad job their account managers are doing and how you are holding it all together. Make sure you copy your own boss for added visibility.
Next up, take care of any personal errands and honey-dos. While driving around, phone those same account managers you threw under the bus this morning to get some fresh gossip you can email to their bosses tomorrow.
Then lunch, on the company because you’re “on the road”. Not McDonalds, what are you, a field hand? No, you’ve got a half dozen little ho-e in the walls where the waitresses put up with your bs and you get a hand written receipt.
Afternoon now, time for a snooze, but got to wake up to call an account manager at 4:45pm and give him sh!t because your old school buddy who works for some third rate, mortgaged to the hilt, no-name mom-and-pop oil company is demanding free service because one of his in-bred, mouth-breathing employees done fcuked up some sh-t and he’s looking for someone to both blame AND bale him out.
Dinner, with another old buddy, or cousin, who you can pretend is a potential customer. All goes on the card! And the waitress knows to put the bud lites down as appetizers on the hand written receipt.
And just because it’s evening, the work doesn’t stop! You got to call up that district manager as you DUI your way home, let him know that your buddy at the no-name mom-and-pop oil co is pi---d at our guys, and threatening to pull his PBT negative business away from Baker, but you’ve managed to calm him because you’re such a superstar.
Then it’s 20 minutes of unwelcome, creepy, middle-age guy flirty texting with the new 22 year old field engineer before passing out on the couch with a bud lite in one hand and limp pizzle in the other.
And then wake up fresh and ready to do it all again!
You should go speak with an ombudsman. That’s what they do best. Get into d-mb a-s sh-t they know nothing about and twist it up until someone gets fu---d.
Save yourself the time and agony and tell the ombudsman he’s fake news, kick ombudsman in the nuts, and resign. Because more than likely your boss already told the ombudsman what’s going on and the ombudsman is coaching your boss. You’re already fu---d. Never should have worked overtime. Heck, the person with the longest tenure has done the least amount of work in four decades. It’s not what you do, it’s what you say that matters at BH.
Kicking your boss in the nuts is pointless.