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Jun 4, 2024 2:37 PM
Iblamemyparentstoo
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tarataqa
I watch mah stories evvryday
Rishingo
Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance
CzechGirl
https://imgur.com/yvGdnLl
DSREX
As a GenX this is my motto. I give at work exactly what the mid line of performance is. I have my under promise over deliver mode when needed.
Unless you are my kids or wife, then you get my all. Everyone else can get inline for what I chose to give.
TheLastGreatAudit
You don't redline your car every time you get in it. You'll break the car. You don't give 100% all the time at work. You'll break yourself. And youll get written up if the burnout drops you to 90%. Always give 50%. That way you don't burn out and if you give 25% one day people assume it's a rough day and if you give 75% you get a raise.
cjandstuff
My coworkers are on commission. I'm salary, and produce what they sell. The harder they work, the more money they make, which is fine for commissions, I get it. But the harder I work... uhm, the harder I work.
thefreckledfox
Same!! I hate watching them get celebrated at company meetings for all the sales they got. We never got one award for doing the harder part of making what they were selling. And definitely didn't get paid more.
Tootsie1
Some days 60% is all you've got. Do what you can with what you have. As mom says, don't sweat the small stuff... and it's ALL small stuff.
liev7
Calicious
I've always been gunning for promotions, expecting myself to be at the top of the ladder earning a ton, and feeling free. However, now I'm in a middle manager position and I earn six figures and constant praise working like 2 hours per day. I'm afraid if I get a promotion my income will go up 20% but my workload will go up exponentially.
mity0k23
I always give 100%. 100% of what I give.
AZRAELSBLADE
20%. Final offer.
Wraid
FridaMercury
So burned out from living at 100% every day
MikePowers
Same here, but I can’t stop. Self motivation, not work here.
manystripes
Giving 100% while still looking at the mountain of things that need doing that there's not enough time for.
AyatollahBahloni
There is some debate as to whether this is even real, given how vicious a violation of federal labor laws it entails. That said, our country is so huge and so many managers are such shitwankers, it would not surprise me in the least if something similar has happened somewhere in real life. And who knows, this could actually have happened.
PS: Fuck you, Gary.
textilelover
Hey Gary, I quit. I don't think that's even legal in the US where everything labor related sucks.
Starcatcher1986
It's a depressingly common policy... but they're usually super careful to only say it out loud, and not commit it to writing like this. Sometimes it's even an unspoken policy... as in if you don't accept an "on call" shift, you don't get any scheduled hours the next week.. and nobody tells you why.
TheGreatestMango
Whether or not this is real, the exploitive and selfish culture represented by it certainly is. Fuck you Gary fr
coffin1987
Question of ambition and your life goals
channelranger
I'd say it's more of a question of where you work. Most jobs these days don't offer serious choices to up your rate of pay. If they offer promotions at all it comes with too small of a raise. If working won't advance you in any way, why bother?
coffin1987
Okay, true
Iblamemyparentstoo
Case in point ..they fired the programmer at my work then gave the job to my friend who would still run his machine while writing programs for the whole department, twice the work and he didn't get a bump in pay. Such bullshit.
MrHappySmiles
I am just so pissed off that they killed Mariko off.. the old guy too.. I mean they haven’t killed anyone off but those two, and everybody loved those two…
mgraham420
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
fudgycurmudgeon
Why are you spouting spoilers for something nobody even mentioned?
Zedrapazia
What is that even spoilering? I don't know where it's from ...
fudgycurmudgeon
*SPOILER ALERT*
I think they’re talking about the new Shogun
SmellingMistake
Giving 100% on occasion shouldn't be a problem, but doing it everyday will just burn you out and can't realistically be expected of anyone.
Maverickaura
Incorrect, 100% is the amount of effort you can give without burning out. Like a jet engine, you can give 110% but any output over 100 your cooling systems can't keep up, and eventually your compressor blades start to melt and weld to their housing. Recharacterize the phraseology. Because saying your non-burnout effort as like 60-90% makes it easier to attack as lazy.
MrBojangles2
Yeah, you can't be "at your best" all the time, because then that would just be your normal
WorkSnakes
Give'em 80% has been my philosophy. Clients don't recognize anything above that, and it's largely just wasting time being a perfectionist
KillingTlme
If you give 100% and your coworker gives 50%, you will be assigned all of their extra work.
neospor1n
Had an interviw where they said they wanted 100% everyday. I told them ‘I miiight be able to offer 70%. They asked about it and I said ‘If I’m working 100% then I can’t work any harder during a crunch time. I think if it’s needed I can work harder but you expect it everyday and anyone would burn out”
beeeeeeerkaaaaa
I assume you didn't get the job or had the sense to decline it?
channelranger
Yeah 100% means you literally cannot work any harder. You could not concentrate on your tasks more. It means you are not resting, even a little bit between tasks, it means that if you were given *any* more work than you have, you simply could not do it. 100% is a result of a catastrophic failure by whoever's distributing workload. Having worked in medical for awhile, it means either critically short staff, or the building's on fire.
Higure
Reminder that any decent work horse can yield a lot more than one horsepower. For a little while. One horsepower is meant to be closer to what a work horse can yield over time, every day. Treat yourself like that as well. Know your limits, and know that they are well below full sprint over time.
NateintheNorth
I've never given 100% at work. I think the only times I've come close were Black Friday in the electronics department at Target, I basically took control because no one else knew how to quickly and accurately determine the type of iPad in a given package - mostly because that's clearly not one of Apple's priorities. It was in like 2012 or something, we had like six SKUs of each iPad type. I was handing cashier's iPads left and right, calling restock orders from the backroom...
NateintheNorth
...I probably made like $50 that day, pretax.
J3lek
And then the new manager comes in and assumes the 100% you've been giving is 80% and demands more.
Cha0sForever
This is why in my new job in go at 40% max so they days shit hits the fan I can over achieve with 60% and still have time to spare for my personal time.
LiarLiarPantsUntier
WhyDontYouMakeMe
More! More! The business must grow!
TheGreatestMango
the whole infinite growth model is as stupid as it is unsustainable why the fuck isn't everyone talking about this and working toward something that will actually work in the long run. I swear to god there's only so many more times I can hear people say shit like "required quarterly growth", "in the black", "projections looking good" or "fiduciary responsibility" before I just disrespecting them to their face
frenofafren
Just enough work to not get fired.
CloakedFigure
Calculated mediocrity.
ToneLock
legit if they pay you minimum.
channelranger
Honestly legit for any job that doesn't give significant raises every year to not only offset inflation but completely beat it. Which is almost every job these days. If they want above and beyond, there needs to be a potential for advancement. If working hard won't improve my situation at all, why would i?
Sensiblyinteresting
Min wage = min effort. This is why I'm never mad at poor service or messed up orders at a place I know pays badly.
SirRichardOfHead
Yeah I'm not expecting the teens in a fast food place gwt everything right every time. I do expect them to give me my sauce when I ask for it should it be left out, but I'm not throwing a fit about it. In fact if I was working for minimum wage I couldn't give less of a shit about a damn sauce. Just take it man, take two.
Sensiblyinteresting
My comeback when someone complains about that stuff is..... Could you imagine how amazing your food and order would be right now if the person who made it was paid a livable wage and gave a shit about their job?
lackadaisycull
This is NOFX’s philosophy. 60% (reprise) is a banger.
NirvanaNik
Ahhh, Wolves in Wolves' Clothing. Nofx is easily one of my favorite bands.
Snuggelapolous
The Decline is my bible and Fat Mike is my God. Not really. But close.
ChesterSnapdragonMcFistycuffs
I've asked him to play decline at every gig I've been to. He says fuck off every time, and I understand it 😂
Snuggelapolous
That is an unreasonable request.