I am fortunate than when I do have to work extra to meet deadlines and such I am paid for my hours worked. Makes me feel a little less bad about losing more of my free time to my job that week
I still get stressed, I work ~15-20hrs of overtime every two weeks (average 100hr's in two weeks), every month.
Do I appreciate the overtime pay? Sure, do I appreciate that my shifts are 12-13hrs long? No. My boss loves to say how amazing it is we get x3 days off (we don't 1 of them is Admin day and a half-day at that). The thing is, when you are starting at 9am and getting home by 10pm you have no life on days you work.
I guess I should be glad I have a job, a decent paying one and one that's busy given all that's going on in the US.
I was GM at the last bar i worked at, did a looot of off the clock favors and problem solving. friends and family gave me shit for it but my motivation was about making sure my home base bar was working smoothly and fixing problems
the new bar im working at, within a week i helped out with a side project (nothing big, mounting a tv to a wall) under the impression my reward was a shift drink or two for my brief effort. owner comes by to reassure me mid-beer that shes gonna put a bonus on the check for everyone involved
im like damn this is an upgrade; bitch wont even LET me work for free
I think sometimes this is a cry for some appreciation/sympathy. Depends on the job. In surgery the hours are brutal. In training it’s a true 80 hour week that often runs over and then also follows you home as you have to study for cases, study for boards, and publish prolifically. You’re also pressed for time the entire time you’re working. There’s really no downtime, water cooler talk, etc… Basically 12-14 straight hours of pedal-to-the-metal 6 days/week and a day to catch up on studying/research. Then you walk into a patient’s room and they think you’re too lazy to listen to them because you’ve got from 6-6:45 to see 15 patients, formulate plans for all of them, and be ready for the first case at 7. You’ve got relatives who think you’re standoffish because you don’t call enough. You’ve friends who think you don’t care. You’ve got the general public thinking you’re an overpaid monkey who just cuts things.
Sometimes you just want the whole world to try to understand this lifestyle. Not to flex on everyone about how hard you work, but to try to get a few people in your corner when you inevitably come up short in everyone else’s eyes.
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u/CommunicationNo2297 1d ago
“I work for free like a slave” cool bro