Age check!
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Coming in from a European perspective. During my first real job, I wanted to impress my supervisor. I was working some overtime (much less than I did as a student). My supervisor started passing by my office between 4pm and 5pm, letting me know it was time to go home, there was no need to overdo it. He was great… often telling me how I was exceeding expectations, and that was great as long as I was keeping a good work life balance.
Socialised protections are amazing… I still work overtime at times, but only when I feel like it (and I still never report it), I only taken on the amount of work I feel I can reasonably do. I strive for efficiency, not overburdening myself.
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Basically never had that. I’m nice because why wouldn’t I be? And I don’t overwork myself because on the occasions that I did it only ever hurt me while some manager who underpaid me already got all the benefits. I do put in a lot of effort when I helping a friend or something and they really needed it and that was its own reward(but still take care of yourself, you can’t help others if you’re broken).
I don’t think it’s a brag, I think it’s just the AuDHD making it so I spend more time than most asking questions that authorities don’t like and my parents, especially my mom, were pretty decent about not being dictators who might send me the other direction toward a trauma response(which is valid and I have great sympathy for those that got put on that path).
There are ways out of it, but we gotta keep pushing and people who are lucky to be like myself need to make sure we stick up for those who don’t have this automatic response. It’s a privilege and using it just for ourselves will not only not fix anything but it will also, if you need a selfish reason, continue the trend of abuse that bad, defensive managers and the like will dump on us for just asking questions at our jobs.
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About 15 years ago when I went to work for a small company that promised me the ability to earn ownership shares but they never delivered.
I have since figured out a better approach that I wish I could discuss openly without making people mad at me.
edit: I'm still trying to be a good person and participate in community and not be a shithead to people. I just don't play the same capitalism eat-your-young game anymore.
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10, maybe 12.
Same here, guess my puberty revolt was about me not getting rewarded for doing my best and being nice all the time. Fuck you world, you suck. Good thing I eventually came to see you have to be the good you want to see if you want to be ok with living in in this world.
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About 10 years ago, when I realized that automating my job just means I get more work (when I share my automations). Now a days, I still share some of my automations, but I wrote and hoard scripts to make me look good (and also lets me write more scripts since it takes probably about as long as my mid-level coworkers).
Upside is I can look like an absolute wizard when I want to.
I recorded a vim macro the other day that made me feel like a wizard
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Ive done some form of construction off and on since 12 now I'm in tech, but,working for a cable company we had 90 min including drive time to perform a 75 point quality check/fix, and fix the problem the customer has plus fix the last techs work. Became clear the name of the game was to get in and get out, make it as good as possible and don't get caught with the things you didnt do. They don't care about any of us, the customer or the employee. Just help the customer as well as you can.
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When I was about ten. Washed my uncle's Corvette without negotiating a price. I finished and the fucker didn't pay because "I didn't set a price before I started" or something to that effect.
10. Years. Old. I'm now almost 60 and still haven't forgot that. Hopefully I haven't turned into the ass he can be -
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Idk, doing all of that is how I went from a customer service agent to a senior IT engineer within 5 years.
You just have to know when to do that stuff and when to coast.
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Still be really nice. It’s usually not too much effort, but is always appreciated, especially by those who need that niceness the most.
Doesn't it cost a dollar to be nice now?
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Around 4 years into my working life. By then I was 2 years into my second job. That’s when I realized I should be working the equivalent of what I was being paid, not more.
Edit: I remember the exact moment now! Someone in HR fucked up and emailed a spreadsheet of everyone’s salaries to the entire company. Seeing my pay compared to other people was the eye opener.
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Doesn't it cost a dollar to be nice now?
as if hating isn't free too
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Ok honestly I never worked hard, because I couldn't ever work harder than possible. So birth?
I always take on much more than I should because thats apparently at least 2 things. So 34
But being really nice just feels better. So when I die.
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Idk, doing all of that is how I went from a customer service agent to a senior IT engineer within 5 years.
You just have to know when to do that stuff and when to coast.
It's doable still. To be fair it was never automatic. But I would like to recognize that it's harder than it used to be.
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Wage disparity is getting worse and it's getting harder to get those companies to give those upgrades. They're doing the opposite and just firing people to shed money for reports that make record numbers.
Decent companies that reward people for hard work still exist. But they're no longer the default. You're not going to get this in a cafe or in a fast food job or anything like that, It's going to have to be a skilled labor job in a corporation run by someone who's not a greedy monster which can be kind of a hard find these days.
You're going to need to be pleasant to be around, You might need to brown nose a little bit. Your may you need to point out to your boss that you're doing a good job, don't be afraid to point out your accomplishments.
If you put in the hours and work hard and can't get anywhere change jobs. When your interviewing for new jobs openly point out that you work hard and you're looking for compensation for that. If that hiring manager smirks or makes a face you don't want to work there. Remember your interviewing them maybe even more so than their interviewing you if you already have a job.
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About 8 maybe 10 at the latest
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Preteens. My mom worked her ass off and we lived in poverty.
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A kid. Probably around 10 or so. I don't ever remember planning that, in fact my goals were to have a good work life balance and trying to be myself as much as possible, even if that meant being a bitch to people. Within reason of course, not taking advantage of others.
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I had the good fortune to be influenced by the slackers of the preceding generation, so my plan was always to do the minimum amount of work and take on as little as possible.
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this post has enlightened me
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As a person with ADHD. It feels like I always knew that working hard wouldn't get automatic rewards. Because no matter how hard I worked, I was never like the rst of the kids, and was always told I needed to try hardrr.
