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When your manager is giving you work on Friday evening

Chartered Accountant

When your manager is giving you work on Friday evening- Grapevine

You've planned your weekend on Friday, just before closing the system, but then suddenly, a client calls you or a manager comes up with an urgent work request, asking you to complete it. You also realize that the task is critical, and you may have to work on the weekends. Has this happened to anyone? If so, how do you deal with it?

Have you ever received work on a Friday just before closing your system?

Consultant

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

My new manager at a new company works on weekends too. Comments in documents, sends mails and a bunch of other stuff. Sends mail at fucking 4 & 5 in the morning.

I feel pressured to work on weekends too because he is working. I'm already clocking 10 hour work days. How to deal with this situation?

About me - PM at startup.

Manager works on weekends

Stop it at the start. Don't put yourself out there, so they start considering your extra effort as normal or default.  
  
 Shut the laptop on Friday and open it only on Monday. Don't follow up on weekends which might become a habit and they expect you to respond on weekends. 
  
 Until they don't ask you, you don't respond. Also there could be multiple reasons why they prefer to work during certain times. 
  
 Once you break the boundary you have, there's no way getting it back again.

Product Manager

When your Manager ask you to work on weekend

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

You have pending work, you take accountability & you want to get it done with

Anything other than this boils down to 
1/ Your manager wants you to work weekends 
2/ Your business leader wants your manager to make you work weekends 
3/ Your CEO wants your business leader to force your manger to make you work weekends
4/ Your Board / Investor wants your CEO to make your Business Leader to force your manager to make you work weekends. 

See the pattern? 
DEMANDS. ASK's. Always someones. 

Why the rant you ask?? Heard a CEO say to his Leaders "Why are you leaders not forcing your people to work weekends, This is so pathetic" 

I was like ... wait what ...??  But then i realise the grey matter can show some "really" blessed people a loading screen at the most opportune time.

You’re working weekends because

Human Resource

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

So thing is  In last 1 week my manager/project lead has been threating that you will have to work on weekend if you dont complete your task by friday and put the the task to testing.

And this boils my blood soo damnn much . But as a person who is on lowest level i cant do/say shit. I just disagree with him and dont argue.
What would you have done .[ practical advice only]

And thing is i do all my dev work on time even earlier almost everytime and he just goes around and threatens everyone with this. Soo annoying thay dumbfk needs to get rekt .

Work on weekend?!! Advice needed

Data engineer

So it’s barely been a month since I’ve joined this company and my manager has already started dumping his workload to me on weekends and at odd hours late in the night. 

Now he’s not a horrible person but I hate how normalised this culture is at this entire organisation. I get it if I’m a founder or working at a startup, I have to be prepared to hustle but not at a big corporation. 

And the irony is that I once needed something urgently from someone based in Europe from our team but my manager asked me to call him the next day since that person was out of his working hours while I was on a call with my manager at 1:18am…..

I’ve also noticed how casually he calls me everyday post 9pm to ask for updates or give a new task. My work hours end by 6pm. 

I really want to to establish certain boundaries, and not want to work on weekends. I’m a biker, and I’ve been cancelling all my biking plans on weekends just cause of this. How do I go about this without it negatively affecting my ratings/impressions etc.?? I have a life smh. 

(Writing this while I’m working on a Sunday)

work on weekends/late night

Senior Consultant

It can be either a strange workplace policy, an altercation with a manager or absolutely anything else.

What's the most toxic incident you've come across at your workplace?

So how do u folks manage work life balance. Does it exists or is it the case, more money more responsibility more fucked up work life balance.?

people who are in senior positions or earning a very handsome salary

When it's 5 pm before long weekend and your manager enters your area with this look

Anyone on the same boat as me?🤦🏻‍♀️

Monday Blues😵‍💫

Tech Lead

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Weekend vibes 😂

Manager seems to give more work when I complete the assigned task in a short period. Should I do work at the pace of others in the team who work at normal pace or continue with the very fast pace. How to escape this deadlock.

Btw, I try to be fast paced in my work to maintain WLB and have some me time. 


Advise/Opinions please.

Workplace issue !!!

Boy oh boy!

Senior Product Designer

Weekend Vibes

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

This advice was given to me by someone who has worked for 20+ years in IT.

"The reward for work done is always more work."

So always manage you time properly here. If you keep working hard then you will be exploited by your manager. He will always take credit for your work. You will do the work but it will be presented by a dumb senior to the client.

So your strategy should be:
Always complete your work on the weekend. Then every day you need to reveal work done slowly. Monday to Friday. This way you will chill during the entire week. People will think you do work but in reality you are coasting and chilling.

Use this time to upskill and interview for other companies. Then get out of IT and go to a Product company.

If you are from WITCH or any IT company then this strategy will make you successful in life...

Software Analyst

People are being forced to work on weekends in the name of "escalations". And instead of it being a request, it is an indirect threat. We are just mere freshers and do not know how to deal with this. How do we navigate this?

Thoughts on being forced to work on weekends?

Best kind of manager

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Context: I work at a startup, it's a pretty chill work environment, very flexible, hybrid model. Everything is great.

Problem: They take flexible work hours too seriously, I have meetings at 10 PM on weekdays and almost every weekend there's some work which they need the next day in most cases but apparently have to keep the meeting on the weekend with no prior notice.

I mean, i like going to office twice a week around 11-12 and coming back around 7, wfh when I have a few meetings that day but is it normal to work on weekends? and after work hours?

P.S. I've only been in this company for a month and joined as a fresher.

Now that I've put it down, this is such a gen z problem lol

But what should I do?

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