Me at 6:30am: I'm going to be good and squeeze in an extra gym session this week! Me leaving work an hour late right as it starts to downpour: Fuck the gym. I'm going home and playing Dragon Age.
Granted about 30 minutes of that unpaid overtime was me explaining to the crying coworker I was trying to help out that sometimes you just need to not finish all your work.
I found out she's been coming in an hour early and typically leaving about 2-3 hours late every day, plus working through her lunch breaks just to stay almost on top of her work load. She's only been there 6 months
And I was trying to get her to understand that if she's doing all that and it's still not enough to keep up then that means she's been given too much work and she simply must refuse it.
Or if she can't refuse come to terms that it will always be late. As management won't change anything and will let her keep being overworked if she keep working for free like this.
As while I know management is pretty nice here, it's still a business. They still would rather she work so much extra for free as it means they don't have to pay someone else which is not right.
And yeah... I just feel so bad for her. I was trying to make her understand that sometimes shit just needs to hit the fan for management to wake up and believe us. As I've been here under 2 weeks and I know of 3 times that she's gone to our lead and said: I need help. This is too much.
I just wanted a job where people didn't take credit for my work, I wasn't thrown extra work just because a manager didn't want to do it, and management didn't play mind games/was abusive
I haven't even started driving home just yet. I was so furious at work right now because I know exactly how this person feel and I hate that I basically can't do more to help her.
Me leaving work an hour late right as it starts to downpour: Fuck the gym. I'm going home and playing Dragon Age.