The Extra Mile

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Bro, I'm salaried and only really need to work six hours a day. So that's exactly what I do. My coworkers put in 12-14 hours a day six days a week... We get the same paycheck.
Granted, I'm consistently rated at the bottom of my department by my supervisors, but I'm also the most highly requested employee by our customers. Literally no one else gets requested by name and I have to triage projects.
- See I'm salary but I'm forced to put in 8 hrs a day. Even if I have no work to do. It sucks.
  
  That's horrible. What's the point of salary if you have an hourly requirement? That sounds like fake hourly.
  
  The point of Salary is so they don't have to pay for overtime. The slave labor is the purpose, forcing people to work more than 8 is just a nice little cherry on top ☺️.
  
  Having a one way street that can only work for them seems like some serious bullshit. I'm glad we don't track our time where I work. If I had mandatory hours I'd insist on hourly rates.
  
  Boom shakalaka. He shoots he scores.
  This is the answer. I worked for a company before the law changed where “managers have to work 60 hours a week”. You know why? Because those last 20 hours made them half of what they would have had to pay someone else. Somehow people fell for it though. “It’s a guaranteed paycheck if I git sick. It’ll work out, won’t it?”
  Nope.
  It ain’t for you boo boo.
- Why do you think there is so much disparity between your bosses and your clients?
  
  I show up late and leave early and don't participate in the "work culture" stuff, this makes my employer upset.
  I get requested because I'm the best at my job and the customers talk to each other. I've had clients from other employees ask to switch to me but that's not allowed by policy. The best I can do is look at the work they're receiving and give feedback.
  
  Sounds like shitty management.
  
  It's crabs in a bucket and they're mad I won't get in the water. I'm paid well and they mostly leave me alone. They've only once fucked up my career once by bad-mouthing me to a department I tried to transfer to in order to learn a new skill.
  
  Crabs in a bucket makes sense for the staff, but not the management. Management should be judging with outputs in mind.
- I'm consistently rated at the bottom of my department by my supervisors
  Unless you miss out on raises or promotions because of this or lose your job, this is meaningless. It's "this will go on your permanent record" but for adults. This is coming from somebody who is pretty proudly the quiet worker who stays around the middle of the pack and does just enough to keep things slightly better than just maintained, so both coworkers and bosses can objectively see that I'm neither making things worse nor just keeping things coasting. And I got a promotion last year, so I guess it's the right strategy (here, anyway) lol.
  
  Yep, they're only middle management as far as the company is concerned I'm still competitive for corporate level promotions and my "bad" reputation will stay back in my current office. I'm gunning for a promotion next summer, so hopefully these dingbats will be in my rearview mirror next year.
  
  Good luck and Godspeed! Write down every recent and upcoming success so you can cite objective improvements in your interviews/meetings. Customer feedback will help too. If you have any big clients who can vouch for you personally being the reason that your company kept their business, even better. The only risk there is that they may decide that you're too valuable in your current role, but you can get ahead of that by pitching that you'll be able to apply your success to bigger wins in a higher role and guide others to learn how to do what you've done. Worst case scenario, you don't get that promotion but you still have it all compiled for interviews elsewhere. If you want to be at the level of that promotion, you should chase it whether it's within the company or without! You got this!
- do you have any other advice? they got us going back to the mines soon with no additional pay, no parking, and no bus passes. so I'm looking to adjust accordingly
  
  Honestly, if you have time and are risk tolerant, going to flight school is a great career at the moment. You take on $200k in debt though.

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