I feel like everyone at my job is being gaslight into working themselves to death and it’s really sad to watch. It’s so insane how people at my office will work through their lunches while punched out so they wont accrue overtime. People also regularly skip breaks and just rip their hair out to stay on top of their work. They will also stay until like 6pm+ working. When I started, it was a running joke in my office that I left at 5pm on the dot. People always complain about being overworked and underpaid, but they dont realize that if they stopped staying overtime without pay and all that shit, our job would have to hire more people. But my bosses love throwing potlucks and dinner parties, getting everyone really drunk, throwing out the “we love you all we’re family”, then everyone just forgets about how awful it is here. I work with my boss’ son and he told me about how my boss spent over 50k on sports seats meanwhile they are taking over 5k out of my check because the dumb fucking billing department fucked up my hourly pay and they didn’t catch it for like 5 months. I thought I had just gotten a pay raise for the work I was doing but I guess not!!!
They all think we’re family, but family wouldn’t use you like that. They tried over working me and throwing a bunch of job titles at me but I said fuck that, I’m not doing work that should be split between two-three people. Now I don’t get enough work but I refuse to say anything because it’ll be back to square one.
Planning on quitting by the fall btw because the work culture here is unbelievable. Plus it’s only a matter of time that they throw a dogshit project at me that should be assigned to a whole team, while the office asks me everyday when I think i’ll be done so I can go back to my regular work.
I am going on two years but I stuck around so long so I’ll have this on my resume and can job hop after.