After being assigned many additional projects outside of my job role, I've had enough. Something small here and there – ok fine. Now, it's turned into projects that are several months long and very time consuming. I work in sales and the majority of my income is commission. Time is truly money. I've had all the right conversations with the right people at the right time about this. My boss told me next time say no, which is fine but when asked to do these projects it's not so much of an actual ask…the expectation is you say yes. It really gets me that they haven't even thrown a gift card or something my way to acknowledge the extra work.
A couple days after my last conversation about this with my boss, I was assigned another project. No ask this time. It was just assigned with a can you get this done asap. I asked my boss what the pay is for this project. Here's the response I received, “our gratitude isn't enough?”
I have not responded nor have I worked on the project. My initial thought was to respond with unfortunately I can't pay my bills with gratitude. How would you respond? How would you handle this?