Friendly reminder, your employers failure to have adequate staffing is not your co workers fault.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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No, but they'll punish you for it. I did the work of 2 people adequately for two years and denied a raise each year. But when I threatened to quit, they hired a second person.
Oh, I don't blame or resent them one bit. Very happy for them, in fact. It all boils down to "the man" in this case.
Solidarity my friend
Save the empire!
Companies like to staff as if nobody will ever be sick, have a baby, or go on vacation. Then, when those very normal things happen, they make this face while informing everyone that they'll have to do a lot more work.
My kid is constantly arriving late at school because their school bus company that services an area of 2 million inhabitants can't deal with the statistical certainty that a small fraction of their drivers will be absent at any given day. It's basic workforce administration, and with an operation as large as theirs it's actually easier and more economical to handle that than if they were a smaller company.
Aaand apply alcohol as needed.
Balok really hit rock bottom, huh?
Nah, he's just hitting his stride.
Yeah, no. If I wasn't there for the baby-making, I'm not dealing with any consequence that resulted from it.
I feel ya.
Was on vacation last week. Did people read my OoO message and forward their requests to anyone else on my team? Lol, of course not. So I spent all yesterday and today taking care of things that should have been handled last week, plus catching up on a week of everything, plus two of my team took days off this week so I'm picking up their slack.
It should still take the same amount of time when you get back. If they don’t like the response time, that’s on them.
This is my attitude. I'm not going to slack off when work is light, and I'm not going to work overtime because someone else can't do their job. I'm also lying about not slacking off. Work sucks.
And a new drinking related swear trek gif I've found:
I used to work in a country with workers rights, and vacation time could be taken as one go of 30 days, or two of 15/15 or 10/20. It's rather inflexible, but does work great in setting expectations for all involved. And your employer can't force you to only take small vacations.
Always remember the Boimler Effect and build in buffer time where ever you see fit.
Words of wisdom, Lloyd.
Well don't forget one of the people there to help pick up the slack is a serial complainer who always has excuses why they aren't at work for their full shift, and when they are there they spend half their time whining to others how they're the hardest worker and things only get done when they get the task and how certain people chit-chat all day instead of work
I would strangle a motherfucker inside of an hour
Not I. I'm one of the sticks in their craw, as it were.
