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This is a question that I'm struggling with. I am in a career that I love and I really enjoy working with the clients. However, I think my boss might expect too much from me. I was brought up with the values that a person should give themselves 110% at their job and work as hard as they can, which I feel I do. My question is, how much is too much?
Another thing that's troubling to me, I feel (as does another coworker) that we're micromanaged to death. As I have license to practice my work and my clients are my responsibility, I feel as tho I should have some autonomy at work and I don't feel that I always do.
This is a question that I'm struggling with. I am in a career that I love and I really enjoy working with the clients. However, I think my boss might expect too much from me. I was brought up with the values that a person should give themselves 110% at their job and work as hard as they can, which I feel I do. My question is, how much is too much?
Another thing that's troubling to me, I feel (as does another coworker) that we're micromanaged to death. As I have license to practice my work and my clients are my responsibility, I feel as tho I should have some autonomy at work and I don't feel that I always do.
Being micromanaged would be annoying, but it is not "being taken advantage of".
You seem to gloss over how you feel you have been taken advantage of.
This is a question that I'm struggling with. I am in a career that I love and I really enjoy working with the clients. However, I think my boss might expect too much from me. I was brought up with the values that a person should give themselves 110% at their job and work as hard as they can, which I feel I do. My question is, how much is too much?
Another thing that's troubling to me, I feel (as does another coworker) that we're micromanaged to death. As I have license to practice my work and my clients are my responsibility, I feel as tho I should have some autonomy at work and I don't feel that I always do.
well, i completely understand. I have often been taken advantage of by employers who expect you to do things that you do, when it's well above and beyond what most others are doing, and you don't even get any credit for it.
Also, like you i NEED a position where i am NOT micro managed, unfortunately i don't have one right now.
I have often been taken advantage of by employers who expect you to do things that you do, when it's well above and beyond what most others are doing, and you don't even get any credit for it.
Nine to five
What a way to make a livin'
Barely gettin' by
It's all takin' and no givin'
They just use you mind
And they never give you credit
It's enough to drive you
Crazy if you let it
It's 'working hard' if the benefits you receive (recognition, career advancement, year-end bonus, etc) is roughly equivalent to the benefits they receive from your work product, knowledge, and experience.
It's 'taking advantage' if the benefits you receive are disproportionate to the benefits they receive.
No holiday pay yet he's scheduled EVERY holiday every year (he hasnt had a Christmas , Thanksgiving or New Years off in 6 years)
Company policy says you cannot put in for vacation time from the months of Nov-Jan.
He left for a year to go to a new dept, it didn't work out so he came back (it was actually 11 months) they dropped his pay $5 and put him at dispatcher 1 (thats starting dispatcher) even tho he had been there 6 years prior and was a senior dispatcher prior to the year stint..
No pay raises in 5 years or living adjustment raises however they have started taking more for insurance and make him now contribute 10% of his check to retirement (I know thats normal for most people but it was not for his line of work till recently) ...
They also promised to put him on road patrol (he was a certified cop) within a year of him moving back. 4 years later his cert ran out because they refused to pay him to get it recerted nor would they approve his time off to travel to where the test had to be taken. They DID however pay for the entire police academy and equipt. for head of the Swat Teams son even tho they were NOT hiring cops. My husbands cert would have taken $300 that we offered to pay for, his schooling cost the company 9 grand..
That my friend is what you call being taken advantage of.. Oh did I mention my husand hasn't missed a day of work there in 6 years (other than the 3 days for the birth of his daughter which imo doesn't really count)
No holiday pay yet he's scheduled EVERY holiday every year (he hasnt had a Christmas , Thanksgiving or New Years off in 6 years)
Company policy says you cannot put in for vacation time from the months of Nov-Jan.
He left for a year to go to a new dept, it didn't work out so he came back (it was actually 11 months) they dropped his pay $5 and put him at dispatcher 1 (thats starting dispatcher) even tho he had been there 6 years prior and was a senior dispatcher prior to the year stint..
No pay raises in 5 years or living adjustment raises however they have started taking more for insurance and make him now contribute 10% of his check to retirement (I know thats normal for most people but it was not for his line of work till recently) ...
They also promised to put him on road patrol (he was a certified cop) within a year of him moving back. 4 years later his cert ran out because they refused to pay him to get it recerted nor would they approve his time off to travel to where the test had to be taken. They DID however pay for the entire police academy and equipt. for head of the Swat Teams son even tho they were NOT hiring cops. My husbands cert would have taken $300 that we offered to pay for, his schooling cost the company 9 grand..
That my friend is what you call being taken advantage of.. Oh did I mention my husand hasn't missed a day of work there in 6 years (other than the 3 days for the birth of his daughter which imo doesn't really count)
Once in a while I will see jobs for a police officer or a police dispatcher in the local paper. The job description always reads that holiday and weekends are required because it's a civil servant job, although I am surprised that he does not receive holiday pay.
Once in a while I will see jobs for a police officer or a police dispatcher in the local paper. The job description always reads that holiday and weekends are required because it's a civil servant job, although I am surprised that he does not receive holiday pay.
Right they're motto or whatever is crime doesn't take a holiday and neither do we.. whatever they still have families but yah no holiday pay for any holidays. They also only give vacation according to seniority which is normal in places however there is a "book' passed around from highest to lowest and u can pen in ur time u want to take .. Because there has been a hiring freeze for the past 4 years no on has gone up in seniority.. therefore the same 15 people or so are the only ones getting vacation times approved. My husbands been there almost 10 years and currently only has about 4 people under him that were hired shortly before the freeze took place yet people who started after him before we left are higher in seniority because they took his away with the 11 month out of town stint. It makes no sense
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