How is your work ethic? Are you all constantly on the toes ? Are you proactive, inquisitive, disciplined, do detailed research and complete tasks on time? I have been mostly working as individual c...

How is your work ethic? Are you all constantly on the toes ? Are you proactive, inquisitive, disciplined, do detailed research and complete tasks on time? I have been mostly working as individual contributor in very small team 1-2 person. So I have no reference for how am I doing. At time I feel guilty and anxiety when I am doing less work. I don't have references of other colleagues

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They have no life
They have nowhere to go
They have no one to be with
They have no passions outside work either

And they make your life hell as they become the baseline for comparison for all sorts of management from appraisal to work distribution.

Feel free to disagree with me, but I’m genuinely pissed today. How do you deal with them? I have a decent life outside work but lose most of it while trying to catchup to such people so that I don’t get fired.

Sorry for the title.

How the F do I deal with overworkers?

I'm also like this brother. But why I work like this? 
 I come from a small village in India . Haven't got proper education or exposure. Not born with silver spoon and this is the only way to feed our family. We too have emotions like you, but sacrificing everything for our future and family. I strongly disagree with @Elon_Musk. Usually, only people who don't work hard do like that.

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I've gotten very comfortable now. WFH many days, take regular yoga and breaks without anyone asking where I've been. As long as I'm getting my work done and I'm in the meetings I need to be in, no one really asks me what I'm doing. 

Sometimes it nags me that I could be doing better things with my time but the money is just too good.

So I'm asking you all, how did you decide where that balance was and if you're happy with your choice?

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I’ll go first: being honest with my manager that my workload has been very low for 3 months straight. It ended up showing in my performance cyan

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Just wondering if this is normal. I normally stay back like 30mins, maybe more in rare occasions. For example today I stayed back like 50 mins because my manager and I were working together on a problem. Then he tells me that I should go home and he will investigate the problem himself. It was quite late so I went home but then I saw his last teams message was at 8pm meaning he was working on that problem for hours after I left? I don't really understand this idea of doing this much unpaid overtime. Are they trying to get promoted? To look hardworking? In my previous (retail) jobs, everyone left as soon as their shift was over. What we were doing was semi important but it could wait till the next day. Also I don't think he does it out of the love of his job because what we were doing wasn't super exciting either.

I recently started my first real job. Why do people do so much unpaid overtime?

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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 !!!

Symptoms of being ‘too nice’ to people at work:
- Overuse of gratitude words like Thank you, please, could you, kindly, etc on all forms of communication at work.
- Registering your reactions like thumbs up & clap to literally every chat message in slack/teams/discord channels at work.
- Praise excessively on meetings like retrospectives, etc.
- Replying ‘thank you’ to every individual person who wished you or congratulated you for some occasion, especially in WhatsApp groups.

Have you ever introspected why you are ‘too nice’ to people instead of just being ‘nice’ to people?

Are you too nice to people at work?

Yes. 
 It's a behavior that was very encouraged when I was a junior - managers and founders loved that somebody was nice, would follow their word, and deliver 
  
 As I have grown in the last couple of years within companies, it's becoming a curse. Getting work out of people requires you to sometimes break that habit. I've also been given feedback that I don't speak up when I'm supposed to. 
  
 Nice to the point where you're doing disservice to your work is not nice 
  
 In case anybody went through this, it would be really helpful to hear how you broke it

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Has anyone noticed how common “Follow ups” is becoming in the workplace?

Huge amount of your work hours goes only for “Follow ups”

Like you literally have to follow up for the smallest things. 

Why do I have to remind people to do their part?

Ex: I have 1 member who I have been following up for 8 Months for a work that can be done in just 1 day. 

And he is not the only person I have been following up.

Imagine guys, how unprofessional and danger this is to work culture & Company Growth.

Follow ups is a Danger!

Digital Marketer

When I was job hunting a few months back, I told the head hunter that a couple of companies she proposed was not something I believed in, in the nicest way possible. Maybe a dick move, idk. She told me it’ll be impossible for me to find a job in this market if this was my attitude. 

After that, a month later, she ghosted me when I asked her if she has any leads. I spoke to a few friends and they said it’s a good thing to want to truly believe in what the company does and few told me it didn’t matter. 

To me it does, because I have always worked in very early startups and I see my time also as an investment. And not to mention, early stage startups are tedious to work in. You lose your motivation if you don’t feel like you’re contributing to a great extent in multiple areas. 

What’s your take on it? Is it alright as long as you get the money in your account?

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