that’s why I outsource the work to other parts of the world for a cheaper price. They will do it better, cheaper, faster and won’t whine about.
Exploitation, yeah!
It depends on the company and how they treat your job, but mostly as a worker you are there to fulfill a company’s requirement. Unless there’s a position or incentive to go that extra mile, don’t, most companies will never see it. Even if you want to do the extra work for yourself, I’d recommend to find a way to do it as a hobby if it’s unrewarded, separate from work.
What they will see is the absence in case they do need it, and then they will be required to fulfill it, although they may not want to focus on better and more empowered workers with higher expectations and may instead just focus on quantity over quality by hiring more people to fill it. Even worse, don’t be the guy who makes his (and other’s) jobs obsolete to scummy bosses.
Open your eyes, you aren’t in school, you aren’t getting rewarded for better grades at work unless they make it part of the business and your bosses stick to it and not just plugging in friends, buddies, and associates.
If you see me going the extra mile, it’s probably the side-effects of me using the company’s resources to learn and do crazy experiments for my own gain.
One of my 1st employers had “extra mile” coupons. Originally worth 7.50 in store credit, then 5, then they disappeared. This was a company that was charging 6 dollars for asparagus water.
Asparagus water?
yea just throw some leftover asparagus in some water and see if yuppies buy it for 6 bucks (16oz).
Asparagus is expensive - I got a 6 pack of NoName hotdogs that’s been in my fridge for over a month- brb…
Do you have any starfish and chocolate, per chance?
hwhat.
Go the extra mile, not working but bootlicking your boss and you’ll ascend faster.
As if either employee is the problem. Blame the fucking aristocrats shorting both of their paychecks
I get bigger raises.
Using optimistic numbers from my workplace–
Is an extra 3% a year worth the 20% more work you’re doing?
The key is to look like you are doing 20% more work, but not actually do 20% more work. Of course that only works in certain cases.
Considering I’ve reached the point where for the first time in my life at the end a 2 week cycle SOMETHING is left over even if just a little bit? Yes.
“But you could get bonuses each pay period up to $100”… which after taxes comes to about $60, after union dues $58. Extra stress and work that makes you more than $100k more a year is not worth $720/yr to me thank you. Give me percentage and we’ll talk.
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 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.
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 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.
And neither gets enough to cover inflation.
Profit sharing fixes all of this because it provides incentives for everyone to go the extra mile so they can make more money.
Yeah, but those profits could go to the shareholders!
A lot of us “do the bare minimum” do the bare minimum because of all of the time in the past we spent going the extra mile only to be rewarded with ever greater expectations for identical compensation and opportunity.
They made us this way.
No sympathy for them. No mercy!
Going the extra mile is a good way to never get promoted because you are too valuable in your current position.
Or in my case, get singled out by a manager from another department for no reason, who then gaslights the other managers into thinking I don’t do shit when I’m the only person in my section that even does anything at all. Go through the whole “try to make them quit” playbook but never do anything wrong so they can’t fire me. I would have outlasted all those fuckers if circumstance hadn’t forced me to move out of state.
Pretty sure they just wanted to eliminate my full-time position to save money.
Been there
…and the one that puts in the unrecognized effort will eventually punch a hole through several people’s chests…
…but he’ll, like, feel bad about it later.
