I’m an architect, working for a pretty famous studio in my country, and because of that, I think I’m constantly justifying to myself that is worth it. Every single day I work overtime, I have a lot of different projects going on at the same time, the complexity and demands get bigger and the deadlines get smaller every day. The pressure is huge.
Now we are moving to a new office space and they asked us to come to help organize the work stations. I got to the new place and everything was still being painted, somethings were under construction and the moving trucks were only starting to come. So me (a manager) and my staff had to spend the day carrying heavy boxes up and down, cleaning, helping to install cabinets and the place ended up far from being a workable office, because there were still many things to finish. We did what we could (still a lot of physical labor) and took off.
Now I get an angry text from upper management that they were extremely disappointed with how the office still is, they are upset of how careless we have been, not letting the place pristine as they would expect from the team. I’m super underpaid for my position and I’m definitely not paid to carry heavy boxes. They preferred to make the architects do the heavy lifting instead of hiring movers. They make millions a month, pay us shit, and think so little of our work that they think is worth it to make us loose an entire day of work to make something that is not our job, and when we inevitably failed to accomplish what they wanted they whine the we are sloppy and lazy.
I can take this humiliating shit anymore, I’m I supposed to be thankful for working in a prestigious place that couldn’t care less about their employees?
Sorry about the rant.