Context. I went back part time after my daughter was born, due to childcare costs. Since this time I've always put in more hours. I work flexibly when needed, rearranged childcare to be out a couple of times a week for several weeks on the bounce. Worked until midnight, back up for work usual time. Taken on extra work when others had left, more by default than by actual agreement.
I started logging how much extra time I was putting in that wasn't be logged, paid or given back as toil. It was huge. After a numer of incidents where I've been made to feel pretty invaluable I have started pushing back. The organisation have refused to uplift me back to full time, despite the acknowledged expansion of the role by senior leadership.
Last year I stood in for a key role member who had left with no financial uplift. It meant I was working huge amount of extra time. This month is extra bonus month, where our line managers can nominate us for going above and beyond. And I've not got anything. Am I being unreasonable to think there is no reason whatsoever to put in the extra, at personal inconvenience and financial detriment (childcare costs) to have no acknowledgement at all. I'm not so much annoyed about the money as the fact its just been ignored. Am I being unreasonable for saying I'm not doing it any more?
I know I could get a new job. I am trying, but as a single Mum it's incredibly tough to find something locally, that isn't actually going to leave me worse off after childcare costs.