Anybody else have this type of situation at work?

[Juddog]

People leave the company, and instead of hiring someone to fill the spot they just close it and make everybody else pick up the work that the person did? With nobody else getting paid more, and unpaid overtime.

 

[SandEagle]

NNOOOOO.....you don't say?

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Uh yeah, it's a recession. That's pretty much how places are staying in business right now. I'm doing the work of 2+ people, ~60 hours a week here plus more time at home.

 

[dud]

Yes, this is very common.

Downsizing where you get to (at least) keep your job.

 

[purbeast0]

nope and if I was in a place like that I would probably leave if it wasn't fixed within a month or two.

 

[Meghan54]

How about cutting a whole shift out and then putting that shift's output on the other two shifts. Fortunately, some overtime is being allowed, given that it's almost taking 10-hour days per shift to keep production close to what three shifts were doing, not counting the every other Sat. or Sun. extra shift being worked.

Naaaa.......never known that to happen as you put it, OP.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

nope and if I was in a place like that I would probably leave if it wasn't fixed within a month or two.

I've never been happier. I'm sure it'll wear out after a few years but right now I'm enjoying being so busy and not having to fix other people's fsck ups. Only downside is I have a long commute on top of it all (getting something closer to work soon)..

 

[darkxshade]

yup, happened to me at my last job, long story short, I left as well.

 

[Eli]

Unpaid overtime? Fuck that nonsense. If I work overtime, I get paid for it.

But yes, that is happening at my place of employment too. I used to get 1-4 hours of overtime a week, but I was told to stop. Now they're giving me even more to do.

Hey, dumbasses, wake up! I wasn't getting overtime just for the hell of it.. fuckin idiots.

I need a new job.

 

[boomerang]

Status quo and not really new.

Before I retired, I ended up doing the tasks of 3 employees that had either retired or died. I was fortunate in that our workload was dropping during that time frame. What's really good is when an employee passes away and you find out that your boss does not know how that employee did their work. Yet it's critical and you've got to take over. Kind of like being told to land an airplane on your own.

The icing on the cake is when you need special permissions and/or software to perform that work and IT tells you it's going to take 30 to 45 days to get you set up. However that does get expedited as it moves up the chain of command.

 

[bobdole369]

Yup, happened at the last 3 places I've worked. I'm currently doing 4 jobs.

 

[lxskllr]

Unpaid overtime? :^D

I'll donate 15 minutes, maybe 1/2 hour to the company on /occasion/, but that's as far as it goes. I'd be willing to donate more if the company's so bad off they have 1 foot in the grave, and the other on a banana peel, but I would expect compensation eventually, and I'd let them know that. Otherwise, pawn shops are a good way of getting rid of office supplies and computers ;^)

 

[darkxshade]

Status quo and not really new.

Before I retired, I ended up doing the tasks of 3 employees that had either retired or died. I was fortunate in that our workload was dropping during that time frame. What's really good is when an employee passes away and you find out that your boss does not know how that employee did their work. Yet it's critical and you've got to take over. Kind of like being told to land an airplane on your own.

The icing on the cake is when you need special permissions and/or software to perform that work and IT tells you it's going to take 30 to 45 days to get you set up. However that does get expedited as it moves up the chain of command.

this... it's quite satisfying when your bosses realize just how much they need you when someone quits... too bad they don't deem it necessary to compensate you for it. :\

 

[vi edit]

I'd rather have that than the situation we have. We lose full time people and they bring in some useless consultant for god knows what hourly rate that we have to babysit and do the left over work anyway.

 

[Koing]

Paid over time?! No over time here! But we get weekend time if we need to work a weekend...

Koing

 

[gophins72]

i can pick several people here who if they did that our productivity as a whole would go up.

 

[vi edit]

Paid over time?! No over time here! But we get weekend time if we need to work a weekend...

Koing

Heh.

So if you don't get asked to work a weekend then it's "weekend time"?

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

That happened to me once and I quit that job. That was when the economy was better though. Right now I basically post on AT all day and get paid more than I ever have. It really is that good!

 

[mrCide]

My last 2 jobs at startups were similar. I was hired for one thing and then made to do 50 more things with no compensation. In fact my last job the main "IT guy" who hired me for helpdesk/support basically stepped down a week or two after he hired me and I was made to take over his duties with no compensation, of course, in addition to all the other stupid shit I was asked to do. After 3 years I requested a raise, which I hadn't done because I knew the company was still "startup" mode. Anyway, I was told I'm lucky to have a job and he planned on letting me go in a few months. What's funny is he got upset when I only gave him a weeks notice with my resignation.

I will never work for another startup if I have the choice, that's for sure. I'm currently working at a pretty secure company and am actually respected and have real duties that go with my job title!

 

[DesiPower]

how long did you hibernate?

 

[Juncar]

Yep pretty much happened to our department. We lost 2 of out of 3 senior engineers on my team. One guy who is not the remaining senior engineer have to do the knowledge transfer and pick up the work load for few months before they find someone and train them to do the work.

 

[Red Squirrel]

yep, the IS department did it where I work. In fact they have been begging to get another person. someone left, and they are not even hiring another. Thing is the IT manager is a real prick. He put the job out, had a bunch of people apply, but none of them were good enough for him, so he just gave up. From what I heard these people were very qualified for the job.

Companies don't realize that by doing that, they are increasing the stress levels of everyone and decreasing production.

 

[trmiv]

Yes, it happens all the time here. We used to have 12 people on our team, now we have 8 doing the same amount of work.

 

[ravana]

Welcome to the real world!

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Yup. We canned an engineer and I took up his projects and did something he couldn't do. Finish them. Not too long after that there were a round of layoffs, our group didn't get hit at all because of it.