Pet peeve of mine: When you complain about extra work, and the response from your boss or coworkers is: “Why are you complaining? dOn’T yOu LIKE yOuR jOb??!?”
For the record, omitting details, I do love my job.
However, even if I was working my dream job and everything was perfect, I would STILL be annoyed if my workload was increased.
This doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy my job.
This only means that I am human.
Nobody likes it when workload is increased without warning. No one cares for having to extend their work schedules because more demand was suddenly made.
That said, can we please let this judgmental inquiry just……… wither off and die???
It makes absolutely perfect sense to be annoyed and even complain about extra work.
It doesn’t make us worse employees just because we’re not accepting the extra work with a big, genuine smile on our faces.