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It don't matter how organized I am, my boss sees I'm done by noon on a friday he'll give me more service calls, shop time or some other job to do.

Must be nice to not have billable hours to worry about…

I already finished all my work for the sprint that ends on Tuesday. It's Thursday at noon currently.

I think you might just straight say "management skills" because that's bare minimum part of their fucking job to organize a schedule well enough so they don't have to have people running into overtime to get the job done. That is time management, too, because you're supposed to know how long it takes each employee to do shit, and you should be fucking organizing based on that.

I'm so fucking sick of skeleton crews. I'm pushing 50 and the last 25 fucking years has been nothing but skeleton crews where if one person calls out sick everything falls apart. Sorry, that's inefficient as hell. If one person calling out wrecks everything, then that means you're doing it fucking wrong and maybe you need one or two more people to help cover the gaps. I'm sure it makes them beaucoup bucks in the short term, but the profits from ruining your relationship with your customer base won't last. Eventually customers do get sick of being treated like shit. (Corporations are banking on all of them similarly treating you like shit so you won't have any real options that are better.)

I'd straight up tell a boss that asked for unpaid overtime that their failure to allocate resources is money out of my pocket if and only if you want to hear from the DoL.

Have you tried hating your home life?

Your coworkers shame you for not donating your time to the company?
Seems pretty fucked up. sounds like yall need a union rep.

that is true

I'd say there's also something to be said about an overbearing workload. If everyone is constantly struggling to get things done in time then more staff could be needed. But yeah, if it's the same ones over and over and only them, then investigating why makes sense.

Look to the managers. They often suck, and shit rolls downhill.

if my folks regularly add hours to their day/week to get their job done they're not good at their job

Or they have too much work

I know lots of senior management and companies that only do a 40 hour work week. if you are doing 55 there is too much work for the staff employed.

This seems pretty reasonable IMO. What are biggest reasons 40 hour week won't happen for senior leadership?

Make sure you highlight this in your one on one discussions with your manager and get compensated. You’re doing two jobs- your employer should not be taking advantage of you. Get paid my friend.

I always wondered how bragging about how long you worked was considered by some as a good thing.

Somebody invented "Employee of the Month" and our competitive habits took over.

Management was handing out bullshit busywork recently, and some people were complaining. Then some guy was like "they pay my salary, so I do whatever they want!"

What kind of bullshit wage slave mentality is that? I am the vendor in this scenario, my employer is paying for the privilege of using my services. There can be terms and conditions from both parties of that deal, and if they're incompatible the deal is off.

Modern day life is a competition, people always want to "1 up" the previous person. This is prevalent in society, don't overthink it