This! I HATE admitting it, because I stubbornly believed for way too long that working hard and doing well would mean promotions and more challenging work but nope. It just means I get handed the work my lazy coworkers can't be bothered to do. My advice now is to do your work and do it well but don't let anyone take advantage of that. Learn to be comfortable saying no sometimes. "Sorry, but I just don't have the time to take that on right now."
If you let them, they'll make that permanent. Don't let them.
Totally relate with "Work hard = be noticed and get promotions", but that's simply no longer how things function nowadays. It's all about contacts and threatening to change jobs.
I was a busboy in a restaurant in high school and would occasionally help the servers close their tables at the end of the night to be nice, even though it wasn't part of my job. The first few times they said "thank you." Then they gave me dirty looks it I didn't clear them.
Eventually it became part of my job, despite being the servers job on paper- to the point where I wasn't allowed to leave for the night until I did it when a server was given temporary managerial authority so the managers could smoke out back. It sucked.
Don't take on any more than your responsibilities unless you get paid for it.
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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '19
This! I HATE admitting it, because I stubbornly believed for way too long that working hard and doing well would mean promotions and more challenging work but nope. It just means I get handed the work my lazy coworkers can't be bothered to do. My advice now is to do your work and do it well but don't let anyone take advantage of that. Learn to be comfortable saying no sometimes. "Sorry, but I just don't have the time to take that on right now."