The company will not remember or care about your sacrifice.
Not "the company", the people you work with. Other, equally-tiered employees who would be slogging by without your help.Same answer. As long as you were a good employee and communicated your PTO with your coworkers and managers, you are guilt free. The lack of additional coverage/support in your absence is the Company's problem to solve, not yours.
look at these bad boys
I would never know if they needed my help because I don't look at, answer, or respond to work correspondence during my personal timethis is the way
Sure. I come in if they pay me twice plus overtime, or refund my pto.
If you work for free your hero award is going to be the company expecting that much out of you and possibly others in the future. It's actually selfish of you.
Never stick your neck out for other coworkers. They not your friends nor family. They are there soley to make a dollar. They will stab you in the back to make an extra dollar. Get your mind right and your grind right. Stay tight.
This is a harsh lesson I had to learn. If you work more than you need to, the company expects that level of commitment out of everyone else too. You are effectively being a scab.Want to know my nightmare story?
I wish I figured this out before I started getting my coworkers fired.
We really need to start thinking about how screwed up our system is that it punishes people for working hard.
Want to know my nightmare story?
I worked overnight to package things. I work at one of the biggest stores in the state (NSA dox here, whatever). They told me "don't worry no one can get it all done". I cracked my knuckles and came up with a new way to do it, getting it all done. The other two old ladies that worked with me looked so bad. They were both replaced.
Now there are only 2 people working overnights, and I have twice as much work to do on top of that . There are days where it takes me 12 hours to get it all done. I get yelled at every day for being too slow. Every single coworker I've had has either had a mental breakdown or quit. They can't find anyone to do it. If I work as fast as I can, I can get it all done on a slow day on time, and I feel very sick afterwards, like I'm going to vomit.
The other day I had a new manager who worked at a much smaller store lecture me on how I should be able to get it all done twice as fast. I basically broke down crying and told them I refused to do it anymore, and now I'm not doing overnights anymore. I really need the money mind you, they cut my pay by $3 and took away all my benefits at one point.
I genuinely believe that the amount of manipulation, lying, and gaslighting they put me through would make anyone else quit. They also treat me like a dumb problem employee kid because I admitted to them that I had a drinking problem. (This job drove me to drink)
An all too familiar story.It's fine. I'm done with it now. Never doing it again. I feel bad for whoever they replace me with, because they genuinely have no idea how to run the place. I'll figure something else out for money. The extra $2/hr isn't worth my sanity, which I was losing.
Holy crap I am so sorry.
You got it backwards.No. Don't stick up for your coworkers either. My girlfriend got fired after a long series of slowly helping (translation: doing) her coworker's work when her coworker couldn't figure her shit out. After a series of months, my girlfriend was straight up doing her work and her coworker's work. This eventually made its way to their mutual boss, who had been accustomed to the good work (again, girlfriend doing both), and fired her because she ultimately stopped doing said coworker's work.
Stick up for your coworkers. Never stick up for your boss though.
Never stick your neck out for other coworkers. They not your friends nor family. They are there soley to make a dollar. They will stab you in the back to make an extra dollar. Get your mind right and your grind right. Stay tight.I remember your topic where you were upset that your white coworkers got MLK Day off, so its pretty obvious how you feel about your coworkers.
My coworkers, even ones I am friends with, will only pick up my shifts if it benefits them so I do the same thing. So no, I wouldn't. I don't get angry at them, it's nothing personal, but it goes both ways so I don't feel guilty.