Honestly I’ve just learned to take my “burned out” state and enjoy it. I am fortunate enough with my job in that if I meet the deadlines noone cares how much I work at any given time, so when I don’t feel like working I just go for walks, or ride my bike around, or even drive to some remote place and have a picnic. Then I compensate by working hard on other days/weeks. This rhythm made my life so much happier, instead of trying to force myself to do an even amount of work all the time (including both forcing myself to stare at the screen when I really don’t want to, and forcing myself to go to bed when I want to stay late to work)
When they decide to get rid of you, no amount of output will satisfy them. Everything you do will be micromanaged and if it looks like you will still meet the unreasonable deadlines, they tell you that you have to do it differently and also throw some other work at you.
Then they will criticize your inability to get the work done, and fire you.
I have no doubt about that. After they “fired” a couple of people for bullshit causes, we organized a little pseudo-union-thing with our colleagues (pseudo because we are a remote org with people from all over the world and can’t file for a legal union). As a result not one of us has been fired without a real cause, a serious investigation, and an attempt at redemption. Feelsgoodman
I’m sad that was necessary but happy your group was successful with it. I am fortunate in that the managers I work under are of the mindset, “Your an adult. If work is getting done to quality/schedule requirements and people can get a hold of you when needed, then I don’t care how you schedule your time.”
It’s not about managers, there are nice ones for sure. I like my direct manager a lot. It’s about the capitalist on top, who, when the times get rough, still tries to extract the most profit rather than actually reinvest some of the capital back into the business and keep people employed. This is unavoidable under capitalism.
Yes, I accept that is the nature of the beast for a publicly traded company. But I have not heard stories about my company playing stupid games like that. Probably because they are big enough that it would create legal risk and they know they will probably want to rehire some of the people getting layed off some time in the future.
Honestly I’ve just learned to take my “burned out” state and enjoy it. I am fortunate enough with my job in that if I meet the deadlines noone cares how much I work at any given time, so when I don’t feel like working I just go for walks, or ride my bike around, or even drive to some remote place and have a picnic. Then I compensate by working hard on other days/weeks. This rhythm made my life so much happier, instead of trying to force myself to do an even amount of work all the time (including both forcing myself to stare at the screen when I really don’t want to, and forcing myself to go to bed when I want to stay late to work)
When they decide to get rid of you, no amount of output will satisfy them. Everything you do will be micromanaged and if it looks like you will still meet the unreasonable deadlines, they tell you that you have to do it differently and also throw some other work at you.
Then they will criticize your inability to get the work done, and fire you.
I have no doubt about that. After they “fired” a couple of people for bullshit causes, we organized a little pseudo-union-thing with our colleagues (pseudo because we are a remote org with people from all over the world and can’t file for a legal union). As a result not one of us has been fired without a real cause, a serious investigation, and an attempt at redemption. Feelsgoodman
I’m sad that was necessary but happy your group was successful with it. I am fortunate in that the managers I work under are of the mindset, “Your an adult. If work is getting done to quality/schedule requirements and people can get a hold of you when needed, then I don’t care how you schedule your time.”
It’s not about managers, there are nice ones for sure. I like my direct manager a lot. It’s about the capitalist on top, who, when the times get rough, still tries to extract the most profit rather than actually reinvest some of the capital back into the business and keep people employed. This is unavoidable under capitalism.
Yes, I accept that is the nature of the beast for a publicly traded company. But I have not heard stories about my company playing stupid games like that. Probably because they are big enough that it would create legal risk and they know they will probably want to rehire some of the people getting layed off some time in the future.
Nice! Solidarity!
It is amazing what a job with healthy work/life balance can do. Unionize, and it’s even better.