I'm tired of working overtime. I feel trapped. It's not that I'm dependent on overtime to pay my bills. I have minimal debt and no children.
It is that the company I work for practices lean staffing. A manager once admitted to me that it is cheaper to pay 3 or 4 employees 40+ hours of overtime collectively than it is to staff adequately. Due to the benefits the company provides hiring more staff adds like 30 percent to labor costs.
I feel trapped.
I recently formed a union at my company with my co-workers and that has made it more worthwhile to work overtime. But I really want work-home life balance. Ans unionizing hasn't done anything to reduce the workload. In fact the company is now wanting to expand our facility which would increase the amount of work greatly. And I doubt they would hire any additional employees or if they do it won't be enough. I am considering working to rule when they start construction. Only working 40 and leaving with a job unfinished on Friday. Let the workload pile up.
I feel that for this to be effective everyone would have to be on board though. And one of my coworkers is a total simp for corporations. He is working 70 hours a week and he told me today that we don't need additional employees, I just need to work faster and work 6 days instead of 5.
I've been working around 48 to 55 hours a week for months.
I'm really sick of it. Even keeping your bills low doesn't mean you can work less.
And the understaffing issues creates division amongs employees which undermines our solidarity.
Idk what to do.