Update: My Wife Keeps Working Lots of Overtime without Additional Pay
Hi everyone,
Sorry for disappearing.
Thank you for all your responses. I'll do my best to address them here.
My wife is competent and her team and boss knows it.
She's got experience in the work and industry.
The reason why she's overloaded with work is because her job is project based.
When a big project is in effect, her job becomes crazy busy until the project is over.
In addition to that, there is a lot of paperwork being processed by another team which gets passed to my wife, which she reads over and notices errors from the previous team and it takes up more of her time.
There is just too much work being passed to her. The company needs more admins to spread out the work to.
As for her admin coworkers, they have the same problem.
In fact, my wife and her colleagues all left work tonight at 8:30pm. Same as last night. 12 hour shifts!
She and her team work the longer hours because, if not, they will fall behind.
Extra work doesn't necessarily build up. When the projects start, it's a mountain of work that needs to be chipped away at in addition to other tasks such as emails and reports.
PS. Some asked previously. Her current job is at a small-ish company. It's not large, but not so small either.
So, why does she stay at this job?
- It's in an industry that she's truly passionate about.
- The benefits are decent.
- The culture is good (aside from slave-working the admins, the company is full of friendly people and have quite a few all-expenses paid events as well as annual salary % increases)
- Although the pay is not good, it is still an improvement over her past 2-3 jobs (large corporate). They were even lower salaried positions that had messed up hours (working 3pm-midnight), and had very poor corporate culture)
- It's closer to home than previous jobs, saving on commute time.
I had a talk with her a moment ago. It seems that she sees another project that's about to be unleashed around the time her existing project will complete. It seems the non-stop OT doesn't have an end in sight. S
She agreed that if it stays like this with non-stop OT, she'll have to quit.
If I missed anybody's questions from my previous thread, please let me know.
Thanks.
Sorry for disappearing.
Thank you for all your responses. I'll do my best to address them here.
My wife is competent and her team and boss knows it.
She's got experience in the work and industry.
The reason why she's overloaded with work is because her job is project based.
When a big project is in effect, her job becomes crazy busy until the project is over.
In addition to that, there is a lot of paperwork being processed by another team which gets passed to my wife, which she reads over and notices errors from the previous team and it takes up more of her time.
There is just too much work being passed to her. The company needs more admins to spread out the work to.
As for her admin coworkers, they have the same problem.
In fact, my wife and her colleagues all left work tonight at 8:30pm. Same as last night. 12 hour shifts!
She and her team work the longer hours because, if not, they will fall behind.
Extra work doesn't necessarily build up. When the projects start, it's a mountain of work that needs to be chipped away at in addition to other tasks such as emails and reports.
PS. Some asked previously. Her current job is at a small-ish company. It's not large, but not so small either.
So, why does she stay at this job?
- It's in an industry that she's truly passionate about.
- The benefits are decent.
- The culture is good (aside from slave-working the admins, the company is full of friendly people and have quite a few all-expenses paid events as well as annual salary % increases)
- Although the pay is not good, it is still an improvement over her past 2-3 jobs (large corporate). They were even lower salaried positions that had messed up hours (working 3pm-midnight), and had very poor corporate culture)
- It's closer to home than previous jobs, saving on commute time.
I had a talk with her a moment ago. It seems that she sees another project that's about to be unleashed around the time her existing project will complete. It seems the non-stop OT doesn't have an end in sight. S
She agreed that if it stays like this with non-stop OT, she'll have to quit.
If I missed anybody's questions from my previous thread, please let me know.
Thanks.
