Do you give your all at work?

This is timely for me! I’ve just been refused a pay rise which is dreadfully deflating, embarrassing and quite insulting. My job role has changed significantly since I joined and I have a lot of risk on my shoulders in my work. But since they aren’t paying for it (industry averages are £10k more for a similar role) I’ve been slacking off for the last 3 days.

I am on the job hunt. I am not motivated to give it my everything anymore. And my manager understands this. He really fought with HR to level up my pay, provided evidence that I’m great at my job and do more than I should - and they still said no.

Today, I didn’t do any work above my pay grade and had a bit of extra time to relax in the sun! 😂 🤷‍♀️

I am too conscientious to make it a long term habit. But while I’m upset at how little I’m valued - I’ll be slacking off with my managers approval.

Hope I find a new job soon! Just changed my LinkedIn to “open to work” but I expect HR will moan about that too.

Not exactly but I'm slightly overqualified for my job and often there isn't much to do.
I do everything required of me with a smile, I do my hours plus any extra that needs it and try my best. It doesn't quite feel like giving it my all though.

I worked myself into the ground when I was younger and I finished off a research masters doing long hours when DD was a baby.
Had enough now. I work to live not the other way round.

I give my all when I'm there, because I love my job, I really like my team and I can see the difference I'm making which makes me feel good. But I leave on time and don't take work home with me.

I definitely work far more than I’m paid to and routinely work all day one day a week and then put the kids to bed and log back in until midnight. So I don’t feel bad for employing a bit of flexibility and starting slightly later on my two quieter days or taking the kids to hospital appointments and moving the work around. I’m not asked to log my hours and flexibility goes both ways. I’ll take a call on the weekend even if I’m not on call. I’ve got quite niche specialisms and am not easy to replace. I don't think they’ll want to look to closely at hours as they know who’s getting the good deal overall - them.

Im a lecturer, If its based ont he last 2-3 weeks then yeah I have not got a huge amount to do and procrastinate / go to the gym occasionally or take a long lunch.

If you asked me in the middle of marking season I work 730 to 1745 ( nursery hours) with lunch at my desk and often still need to work at the weekend or in the evening when the kids were down.

My job is peaks and troughs and after a year from hell where I ended up burnt out and having panic attacks, I'm not too worried about a calmer few weeks in the summer.

If my employer cared then frankly I could work to my hours and miss the majority of my deadlines. Luckily they are OK with the way we work.

No I didn't, I've only ever really worked in small businesses or public sector too 🤷

Are they asking you to log the hours worked and then you only get paid for the hours worked?

Or are they asking for time recording where you have to break down how much time you spend on each task but you still have to work a set number of hours each day?

Logging inflated hours is the way to get sacked, I work from home very flexibly but I'm not asked to record my hours, if I was it would be done accurately.

I used to work in hospitals and gave my all for years and years and got no thanks whatsoever for it. I now work in an office job. I arrive on time , do what work has to be done and leave. I rarely stay late unless it suits me or there is a rare emergency. And I don’t take the p*ss with phoning in sick unless I actually am sick. I work to live. I work in a great place at the moment but I won’t let myself be taken advantage of like I was for years in hospitals.

If I was your manager and I found this out you'd be on formal proceedings instantly. There's nothing to be proud of here.

I give my all and then some. I’m in a competitive entertainment / arts industry so to be positively noticed you turn up 1 hour before the actual work begins (contract only specifies 15 minutes). I do between 3-5 hours of “unpaid” work / practice on top of scheduled hours (I could get by with 1.5-2h probably). These are obviously not unpaid in the end as they pay off in being asked for additional projects, recommendations for XYZ etc.

It is very obvious who does and who doesn’t do all the extra work, and sadly in my field doing just the bare minimum means you’ll never get a salaried position and will have to complement income in a different way (tough to make a living wage).

Now I am more established and also teach / mentor the young people coming up, I make sure to tell them very clearly how much work is expected between ages 14-30 approx, if they want to really succeed. It’s the simple reality of the job.

I’ve just had my mid year review and my manager is very pleased with my productivity, which has scored 121% for the last 3 months.

I wfh 2 days a week and don’t do much at all when I’m home. I work very hard the 3 days I’m in the office though.

Im actually doing the same amount as when I worked 5 days in the office. I used to waste around 2 hours a day chatting, getting coffee, going on the internet etc. Now I work more effectively when I’m in the office instead so I can enjoy my ‘home’ time. My work are happy so I’m not going to do more even though I could really.

Who's anti wfh on here.

I love working from home.

However I am realistic to know that my every move on my work laptop is monitored and recorded by my employer.

Monitoring software is very advanced these days, especially as working from home as increased a lot.they want to monitor us

It doesn't matter if she gets all her tasks done.

People have been fired for not working their ser hours from home.

There were a lot of cases of this recently in the news.

Are the anti wfh bots out to play again ?

The way we can be manipulated by social media these days is quite something

Op is getting everything done that is needed and is exceeding targets.

If the employer is unhappy then they can raise it - but they're clearly not.

No. I like my job and I’m good at my job but my work/life balance is definitely tilted towards life.

I work hard when in the office so I can be pretty lazy and do the bare minimum when WFH.

Nope. I do enough to get my work done and that’s that.

Edited to add-they don’t pay me enough to put my life and soul into it.

Oh, and when wfh I have my personal laptop next to my work one so I can do a bit of unmonitored surfing, just remember to click the work mouse/ keyboard every now and then.

When I was wfh and on flexi time, id log on at 8, send a ( saved) email or 2, and then get the kids ready for school. I'd accrue flex leave this way, so a few extra days holiday a year.

Nah. I do a good job and work get a lot of value out of me, but I want to save some of my mental and physical energy for the rest of my life and for my family. I definitely coast when there's an opportunity to, provided I'm on top of everything and delivering.

I did and I went the extra mile turning up at everything they did outside of my working hours (I work for a charity) until i realised it did not actually matter to the people in charge and when i find out the prick who I work with who dangerously incompetent earns 3 grand more then the rest of us because he has a degree in the field.

He also never turns up to anything outside of work and he runs out to move his car 4 times a day so he does not get a ticket because he refuses to use the £2 a day car park.

I have basically done the bare minimum for a year and am now leaving. I was not treated any differently then when I did loads.

No, I don't. I've put in a solid 10 years where my work was my whole life but now with young DC I have taken a step back and put in probably 50% of my previous effort. I don't exaggerate my hours though, I work the hours I'm supposed to. I just do a worse job of it, and don't do overtime.

I bet you have busy and quiet periods though OP! the lowest paid and crappiest job I had was in retail for years. Midday-2pm was hell on earth, tearing your hair out busy, but 9-12 and 4-6pm was us leaning against the counter with a cup of tea discussing EastEnders.

Eh most of them do it.

Did you not know that?

Did you not just see in the news where a large company in the US fired work from home staff, as they tracked their mouse clicks, and were able to prove that the employees were not at their desk working for large amounts of time in the day