I’ve come to realise that if you are popular at work and your face fits you can literally get away with anything. I am naturally the quieter type and so I just get dumped with everyone else’s work. But if I ever complain I’m just told it is just “business needs” that need to be met.
If you are not popular or part of the “popular group” you are seen as lesser by your colleagues and are just a worker expected to produce output and you aren’t allowed to have fun.
I was in work the other day and the group of women who sat near me were just talking all day as if they were at a coffee morning. Absolutely zero work got done. They then went to get lunch, another hour and a half gone. Then it gets to 2PM and they all go home to pick their kids up. Rinse and repeat every single day.
I’m only allowed half an hour lunch and even if I am 10 minutes late to return, all hell breaks loose and my phone starts pinging and going crazy with managers asking where I am and calling me.
The other day I left my status on amber to see how long it would take before somebody said something. 5 minutes later “where are you?”.
Why is it always me? Why can’t I have the easy life like everyone else is allowed?
Get paid to sit around and chat all day and maybe send one email.
I’m tired of the unfairness.