Honestly, I'm getting a little tired of the advice to deal with work overload by doing the bare minimum. Everyone here says that but no one wants to admit that it simply doesn’t work. In my case, anyways, it doesn't work. I can’t work bare minimum because I have to have my work done. So do most employees. Which means doing a minimum means nothing. It would be more useful for me to hear someone's experience of how he or she managed to achieve greater efficiency to do as much work in less time. Just saying.
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Tami Erwin going around taking pictures like is still rainbows and butterflies but her whole business org B2B and those in public sector group is all jacked up from the poor leadership and treatment of employees. She needs to wake up and smell the coffee! Pulse Surveys don’t lie.
Well that's the thing... Today's "bare minimum" would have been considered a massive workload a few years ago.
Yes. The no OT is ridiculous. Here's how I deal with it now. I am 1 person and can do so much. After that, that's just that, clock out at 40 hrs exactly and sleeping well over weekend. If work not completed. They can get over it unless they want to allow OT.
What you have been hearing is a little thing called common sense. The bottom line is you can't put 100 lbs. of Manure into a 5 lb. sack. Suggesting that employees should spend time looking for ways to defy the basic laws of physics is just going to make you look foolish. If you are a salary employee, go right ahead and take on all the extra work you want. Verizon keeps applying pressure to the hourly employees to do more while preaching no overtime. Once again peoples common sense sees this for what it is. This strategy leads to a hostile workplace, while increasing the chance of accidents on the job due to stress and fatigue. I want no part of your suggestion to come up with new and better ways to perpetuate this foolishness.