[ SECRET POST #4288 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4288 ⌋

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Comments

Re: non fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

My coworker is amazing at her job. She works long hours and does all kinds of thing that aren't even her job. I need to be more like her but instead I'm just resentful and jealous.

Re: non fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

That doesn't make her amazing at her job. That makes her a tool.

Re: non fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT but... ouch, really?

I go above and beyond at my job because a) I like my job, b) I care, and c) it's resulted in opportunities.

Re: non fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

op

I like my job and I do the best I can. I can't say I go above and beyond often but I certainly don't just do the minimum. But I just don't have enough work to fill 12-hour days. Sometimes I don't have enough work to fill 8-hour days. I don't know how she does it.

Re: non fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I'm not suggesting that one oughtn't be helpful, or work hard, or go above and beyond if it's necessary. And also, it's not entirely clear what the situation at OP's job is actually like, and a lot of it depends on that - I'm certainly bringing my own interpretation to it.

But I also think that those things shouldn't necessarily be the norm, or the expectation. And I think that is the norm (at least in the United States) - where you're supposed to give all of yourself into a job, far beyond the actual returns that you get from it. It depends somewhat on where you draw the line of what "going above and beyond" means. But there's an expectation that you should work super long hours - as OP's coworker does - and constantly do all kinds of things that aren't actually your job - like OP's coworker does. And promotions and job success are often conditional on doing those things - as you point out.

And on the whole, this is really bad. It's a totally dysfunctional set of expectations to have for workers, and it's enormously beneficial to employers, and it puts people like OP - who don't have the ability, for whatever reason, to do those things constantly - at a massive disadvantage. It is the norm, but it shouldn't be.

I shouldn't have said "tool", because that has more malicious connotations than I want to bring.

Re: non fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

Okay fair enough, the way you explain it makes more sense. I think the word tool got a kneejerk reaction from me, lol.

Re: non fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

Stay doing the bare minimum and getting nothing out of anything you ever do then, henny.

Re: non fandom confessions

[(Anonymous)]

What kind of a fucking idea is it that you gotta do someone else's job in addition to your own? If they want you to do the damn job, they should pay you for it. I hate that this invisible background expectation exists.