I'm exhausted. Without any exaggeration, I feel totally drained. Motivation is zero, and the reason is that for months now I have been watching how lazy ones are being valued more than good, hard working people. When I first got the job here, hard workers were role employees who were much more respected. I don't know what happened in the meantime but it's nothing like that anymore.
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Exactly @OP drowning and expected to pull the weight for incompetents. We have one who is totally incompetent and gets protected from above. This woman was a DBA in name only, then a security and audit specialist in name only, then a DBA again in name only. She was continually promoted and is a GSR8 making over 100K doing nothing. Meanwhile competent GSRs were cut and overworked GSRs and contractors have quit. Others have just started limiting work hours to 35 hours a week and letting work stack up.
You wont believe how many people are in the same spot. Particularly the one where the seemingly unknowledgeable get promoted, even multiple times. Add to that an unhealthy bias towards female leadership progression (full on woke-train), multiple half-assed reorgs, declining bonuses, mostly-cut OT pay, salary that often does not compare with other mid-high fortune 500's. Earning additional qualifications is still an absolute pain. They pay for Master degrees in AI but all AI jobs are outsourced... idk man. if you see too many drawbacks and issues it is time to leave. is what it is.
@OP. I know EXACTLY how you feel. A couple of clueless coworkers with no workload while I am "drowning" in requests, but they cannot help me because they are not "familiar with the technology", even after several years in the same team. (Both were LL5 "picks")
Called on a Sunday for plant issues caused by a wrongly implemented change. Managers denying me OT, while the ones causing the issue, the ones who could not follow printed instructions, the ones that caused a delay in production for a couple of hours, got all the Change hours, plus the time it took me to fix it, approved as OT.
Clueless management, that does not listen to technical advice, delaying the implementation of a needed change for over a year. Of course, now that the issue exploded and reached upper management, they are playing the blame game on me. I hate office politics!
Before Covid19, I asked for a "substantiated" salary increase, since the company kept dropping roles and responsibilities on me, while I was wearing multiple hats. The answer was so petty, that I almost left the company (again). Since then, I decided to reduce my workload output in order to match the compensation.
Since the SRD of 2019, I have been waiting the tap in the shoulder. I stopped caring for the company since then. I made peace with myself, cut my hours, let the unfinished projects pile up, stopped arguing with management when they do/ask something stupid, and to my surprise, I am still here and my levels of stress are low.
Yes, I am not doing a fulfilling job anymore. It is boring, unchallenging, and became a job, instead of a career. True, but with 50 years on my bones, my chances of having a career are rather slim. So I focused more on myself and my family, started to plan my retirement (yes, it is not going to happen at Ford), I was thinking of a career change, maybe increasing the passive income. So at least, my brain is still focused and working, but for me, not for a dying company managed by a dysfunctional family,