I don’t go the extra mile for the company. I do it to help make things easier for my coworkers and the people who depend on us in the hope that I can make life a little less shitty for everyone.
I do a little extra because I know my other coworkers fuckin’ won’t. I tell my new hires that you’re not working for the other shift but rather for when it’s your shift again.
This is exactly the kind of moronic attitude that is making life shittier and shittier for everyone on the fucking planet.
I am not talking about just cranking out extra widgets or whatever. I’m talking about looking for problems and taking steps to resolve them before they escalate into something worse instead of just leaving it for someone else to do, I’m talking about taking time to answer questions for my coworkers so they don’t waste an hour trying to figure things out on their own, I’m talking about collecting data on issues we’re having so that when I take it to the boss I have numbers to back up what I’m saying instead of just generic bitching about the job so that they will actually take it into account and look for solutions.
Sorry, but that’s ad hominem, Appeal to authority, Appeal to emotion, Appeal to nature, Appeal to tradition, Bandwagon fallacy, Circular reasoning, False dilemma, Hasty generalization, Red herring, Slippery slope, Straw man, Tu quoque, Ad populum, Appeal to ignorance, Cherry picking, False cause, Genetic fallacy, Middle ground fallacy, No true Scotsman, Personal incredulity, Texas sharpshooter, Two wrongs make a right, The purple elephant fallacy, Argumentum ad unicornum, Appeal to the invisible hand, Fallacy of misplaced eyebrows, Circular circumstantial reasoning, Argumentum ad quantum fluctuation, Argumentum ad intergalactic authority, Fallacy of arbitrary sock selection, Appeal to ancestral cheese, Argumentum ad cosmic latte, Fallacy of the floating banana, Argumentum ad mythical creatures, Appeal to the lost sock phenomenon, Argumentum ad celestial alignment, Fallacy of the inverted teapot, Argumentum ad lunar phase, Appeal to the cosmic muffin, Fallacy of the interstellar leap, Argumentum ad parallel universe, Appeal to the intergalactic council, Fallacy of extraterrestrial explanation, Argumentum ad space-time continuum, Appeal to the cosmic coincidence, Fallacy of the quantum leapfrog, Argumentum ad extraterrestrial intervention, Appeal to the cosmic conundrum, Fallacy of the cosmic caterpillar, Argumentum ad celestial consensus, Appeal to the cosmic kaleidoscope, Fallacy of the interdimensional leap, Argumentum ad celestial arbitrage, Appeal to the cosmic chaos theory, Fallacy of the astral alignment, Argumentum ad celestial coincidence, Appeal to the cosmic cluster, Fallacy of the celestial serendipity, Argumentum ad cosmic correlation, Appeal to the cosmic conjunction, Fallacy of the galactic grandeur, Argumentum ad cosmic equilibrium, Appeal to the cosmic carnival, Argumentum ad celestial charisma, Appeal to the cosmic chaos, Fallacy of the astral absurdity, Argumentum ad celestial authority, Appeal to the cosmic confluence, Fallacy of the celestial singularity, Argumentum ad cosmic consensus, Appeal to the cosmic collision, Fallacy of the galactic gambit, Argumentum ad cosmic contradiction, Appeal to the cosmic chameleon, Fallacy of the celestial symphony, Argumentum ad cosmic curiosity, Appeal to the cosmic continuum, Fallacy of the astral anomaly, Argumentum ad celestial equilibrium, Appeal to the cosmic carnival, Fallacy of the galactic gamble, Argumentum ad celestial consensus, Appeal to the cosmic charisma, Fallacy of the astral anomaly, Argumentum ad celestial symmetry, Appeal to the cosmic coincidence, Fallacy of the celestial serendipity, Argumentum ad cosmic correlation, Appeal to the cosmic conjunction, Fallacy of the galactic grandeur, Argumentum ad cosmic equilibrium, Appeal to the cosmic carnival.
I think most people would consider things like, working over 40 hours when you are salaried, routinely doing someone else’s job in addition to yours (like fixing their mistakes TOO much), skipping your lunch breaks to work.
Don’t get me wrong, doing those things SOMETIMES is ok. It’s when it becomes expected or ongoing that it’s a problem. Because no company is ever going to say “You are generating more profit for us at your own expense, slow down.”
I don’t go the extra mile for the company. I do it to help make things easier for my coworkers and the people who depend on us in the hope that I can make life a little less shitty for everyone.
I do a little extra because I know my other coworkers fuckin’ won’t. I tell my new hires that you’re not working for the other shift but rather for when it’s your shift again.
The thing is, it is not your job to make things easier for others.
It’s the company’s job to keep their employees happy by providing enough workforce for the amount of work that needs to be done.
You are doing exactly what the company wants you to do, by playing into your emotions.
Just so they don’t have to.
This is exactly the kind of moronic attitude that is making life shittier and shittier for everyone on the fucking planet.
I am not talking about just cranking out extra widgets or whatever. I’m talking about looking for problems and taking steps to resolve them before they escalate into something worse instead of just leaving it for someone else to do, I’m talking about taking time to answer questions for my coworkers so they don’t waste an hour trying to figure things out on their own, I’m talking about collecting data on issues we’re having so that when I take it to the boss I have numbers to back up what I’m saying instead of just generic bitching about the job so that they will actually take it into account and look for solutions.
Sorry, but that’s ad hominem, Appeal to authority, Appeal to emotion, Appeal to nature, Appeal to tradition, Bandwagon fallacy, Circular reasoning, False dilemma, Hasty generalization, Red herring, Slippery slope, Straw man, Tu quoque, Ad populum, Appeal to ignorance, Cherry picking, False cause, Genetic fallacy, Middle ground fallacy, No true Scotsman, Personal incredulity, Texas sharpshooter, Two wrongs make a right, The purple elephant fallacy, Argumentum ad unicornum, Appeal to the invisible hand, Fallacy of misplaced eyebrows, Circular circumstantial reasoning, Argumentum ad quantum fluctuation, Argumentum ad intergalactic authority, Fallacy of arbitrary sock selection, Appeal to ancestral cheese, Argumentum ad cosmic latte, Fallacy of the floating banana, Argumentum ad mythical creatures, Appeal to the lost sock phenomenon, Argumentum ad celestial alignment, Fallacy of the inverted teapot, Argumentum ad lunar phase, Appeal to the cosmic muffin, Fallacy of the interstellar leap, Argumentum ad parallel universe, Appeal to the intergalactic council, Fallacy of extraterrestrial explanation, Argumentum ad space-time continuum, Appeal to the cosmic coincidence, Fallacy of the quantum leapfrog, Argumentum ad extraterrestrial intervention, Appeal to the cosmic conundrum, Fallacy of the cosmic caterpillar, Argumentum ad celestial consensus, Appeal to the cosmic kaleidoscope, Fallacy of the interdimensional leap, Argumentum ad celestial arbitrage, Appeal to the cosmic chaos theory, Fallacy of the astral alignment, Argumentum ad celestial coincidence, Appeal to the cosmic cluster, Fallacy of the celestial serendipity, Argumentum ad cosmic correlation, Appeal to the cosmic conjunction, Fallacy of the galactic grandeur, Argumentum ad cosmic equilibrium, Appeal to the cosmic carnival, Argumentum ad celestial charisma, Appeal to the cosmic chaos, Fallacy of the astral absurdity, Argumentum ad celestial authority, Appeal to the cosmic confluence, Fallacy of the celestial singularity, Argumentum ad cosmic consensus, Appeal to the cosmic collision, Fallacy of the galactic gambit, Argumentum ad cosmic contradiction, Appeal to the cosmic chameleon, Fallacy of the celestial symphony, Argumentum ad cosmic curiosity, Appeal to the cosmic continuum, Fallacy of the astral anomaly, Argumentum ad celestial equilibrium, Appeal to the cosmic carnival, Fallacy of the galactic gamble, Argumentum ad celestial consensus, Appeal to the cosmic charisma, Fallacy of the astral anomaly, Argumentum ad celestial symmetry, Appeal to the cosmic coincidence, Fallacy of the celestial serendipity, Argumentum ad cosmic correlation, Appeal to the cosmic conjunction, Fallacy of the galactic grandeur, Argumentum ad cosmic equilibrium, Appeal to the cosmic carnival.
I have 40 hours a week at work.
I spend them trying to do a good job.
I have no fucking clue what people mean when they say they go the extra mile.
I think most people would consider things like, working over 40 hours when you are salaried, routinely doing someone else’s job in addition to yours (like fixing their mistakes TOO much), skipping your lunch breaks to work.
Don’t get me wrong, doing those things SOMETIMES is ok. It’s when it becomes expected or ongoing that it’s a problem. Because no company is ever going to say “You are generating more profit for us at your own expense, slow down.”
Sometimes it’s as small as clean up your work area for the next guy. That’s seen as the extra mile for lazy people.