#overworked

I don’t know about you but I bust my hump working long hard and nonstop rapid pace. I eat at my laptop and I’m feeling like no matter how good or great or exceptional it’s never going to be enough. Add this and sprinkle in AI and globalized competing for jobs but I don’t know how I’ll survive all of this. Literally abc figuratively.

I always love how the day starts out great. But then my boss gets into her email and starts firing away all sorts of directives and asks. I probably have a few more hours before this nonsense starts. Often wanting a response “ASAP”. Almost all isn’t urgent yet treated that way.

I’m on the clock at all times Monday thru Friday and basically get a Saturday off. This isn’t sustainable.

Anybody else’s boss “lead” in this glorious 2010 fashion? At least we sponsored the NBA Dunk contest, right “see you on the commute guy?? That changes everything.

Our area was told to come up with a plan to show that we can save at lease 12% this year compared to last year. No more hiring for us. No more external consultants. Travel is almost non-existent after Sapphire. And we are asked to find ways to bring the costs down. There is negotiation going on regarding reducing some company benefits. And we have been asked to get more work done with the same employees. While this may be good news for many that we don't have layoffs, it is still bad news because we will have less worker protections and our benefits will get cut. And for sure employees will be overwhelmed with too much work. When this happens, you can expect the "performance" of all employees to go down and also their appraisals for next year. Welcome to recession at SAP I guess. As a company, our financials are strong but instead of investing in employees we are investing in... AI that customers do not want to pay more for and in... bonuses for group executives and the executive board. I hate this company.

Are you id--t enough for that or should you demand pay more with do less ? Which do you prefer if you decide to stay at ShitTel ?

Does it ever end??? This is the worst company I’ve ever worked for! This company seems to hire toxic leadership on purpose. I have yet to meet anyone that is satisfied with the ill treatment we are met with from the leaders. The only time we get told we are doing well is right before leadership requires us to take on another meaningless project. We are over worked because those that perform well are only left to pick up the slack of the “favorites” while the favorites get paid more for doing less. I’m expected to do my managers job as well. I think I’d rather quit and take the chance of starving to save my self from this soul crushing place. I have the rudest B5 lead on team! He was a manager but was demoted due to his employee survey scores & when I tell my direct manager I am met with “ Trust me he doesn’t want to be a people leader y’all get on his nerves” if that’s the case why is he left in charge of us while your on maternity leave? It’s been he-l on Earth at this place.

That should be Medtronic's new motto.

I'm so burnt out that I'm ready to ask for a spot on the next list. The strategy of slashing headcount to boost profits and never looking back is not sustainable.

Just need to vent. My personal life has fallen apart and I’m dealing with diagnosed PTSD. I’m overwhelmed by the pressure I’m under at the office, especially being on a team responsible for responding to global emergencies. I can’t take time away from work. And it’s PDS season. Under so much pressure. Going to therapy. Doing everything I can to stay afloat. But I’m just crumbling and feel I can’t function in my managerial capacity. So much pressure.

I open my calendar in the morning and it’s already packed before I even start the day. Half the meetings overlap or get moved around last minute, so I’m constantly adjusting. I’m trying to keep up, but it feels like I spend more time managing my calendar than actually doing my job. It’s getting overwhelming in a way that’s hard to explain unless you’re in it. Do I just have bad luck or is this something others have encountered?

What's the deal with the hiring freeze. My team has been overworked and under staffed for half the year in GRM. Is there any end in sight it's dam near May

They cut two people from my team months ago and gave me their work. So now I'm carrying three roles. I've stopped caring about deadlines. I do what I can and the rest waits. If something is late, that's their problem now.

I'm doing so much work that isn't in my job description because nobody else will do it. These tasks are essential but completely invisible to management. They just accumulate and no one acknowledges them. I'm so, so tired of this being the expectation.

Stop celebrating overworking. You're not helping anybody but the company's bottom line.

LBT owns tons of companies. If he only works part time, why he layoff people working 60 hours per week by excuse of RTO?

I spend all day in pointless meetings that add zero value. Then I have to work late to actually get my work done because there's no time during the day. It's a constant cycle of falling behind.

It's not as if it will ever pay off. The only thing one can hope for is to be worked to the point of exhaustion, ditched and replaced. Working hard once made sense. Putting in some extra effort opened doors and created opportunities. It's pure masochism these days. What is it? Fear, habit, delusions that it might help you keep the job?

No offense intended to any recent layoffs or anyone that might be affected in the future.

I am a long term high performer. As a result of a recent reorg, bringing our team into IT that shouldn't be in IT, they put me in a brand new role I'm horrible at and I hate, and are overworking me to death. Not only does my leadership have no fu--ing clue what they're doing, they are extremely thin skinned, and not open to feedback. So fu-k it, maybe they're right, I'm not equipped for a role in their stupid bullsh-t org. I think they're going to fu-k up royally and cost the company a lot of money, but let them own it.

I am now begging, pleading with everyone I know internally to try to find a life raft. I don't even care if I have to take a pay hit, this stress is taking years off my life and will be very damaging to my career. But if I can't find something, externally or internally, I think I just need to quit. This is the d-mbest sh-t in the universe, and I really am the atlas holding a bunch up, so fu-k it, let them deal with the consequences of their stupid choices and yes men bullsh-t. They're about to do something very stupid that's going to pi-s a LOT of people off and make tons of enemies.

We used to have a slower season, a time when you could catch your breath and actually think. That doesn't exist anymore. The pace is relentless now, and the workload has become the baseline. Everyone is exhausted, but pointing it out feels pointless because leadership seems to think this is just how it should be.

Don't help them by proving that the work can be done with fewer people by breaking your own back for nothing in return. Don't say no, just say you're busy. Your plate is full. You'd love to help but there's simply not enough time for it all. They're counting on you breaking. Please don't.

I was desperate for a way out of Fiserv and the opportunity looked amazing. What it ended up turning into was endless hours, impossible deadlines, and constant panic. Now I'm stuck because it's even harder to land a job than when I left. Even Fiserv looks attractive at this point.

A coworker tried to one-up me for being tired after four days because they grind six days straight. That's such a weird flex. Cool, you give all your time to State Farm and have no free time and I do. I'll take my energy and my weekend over whatever that competition is supposed to prove.

Now the people left are doing twice the work. Every single day.

I need to pay the bills. But I'm not going to bust my a-s for a paycheck. Everything else is an insult to our intelligence. Forget promotions or a decent raise. They work you as hard as they can get away with, and then kick you to the curb. So, as far as I'm concerned - no overtime, no hard work, and I couldn't care less about outcomes. Passable coasting is all I'm willing to do until a better opportunity comes along.

Mass exodus happening across the retail space. Employees giving the middle finger to Sr Directors and directors for treating them like sh-t, threatening their jobs, overworking front line, creating their own policies. Allowing fraud and major compliance violations to occur in the name of hitting targets and leading in performance. Look very close at the areas that specifically won presidents cabinet and winners circle. Tod Rye is an absolute clown and should be fired immediately. 🤡 🐱

You can work nights and weekends and they'll still blame you for the next tiny thing. The worst people sit right next to you, take credit and disappear when there's a problem. I'm completely finished with it.

Over 800 calls in a month 3 reviews and they want to review only the bad parts as they need to remove people they made slaves do very little pay CEO makes millions ! Cap one isn’t going to wear me out

I go above and beyond I’ve always gotten exceptional but not today. Today I got a 3 and 90 percent. I am in dis belief I’m hurt this really is hard constantly overlooked and underpaid.

If I'm laid off, I have to deal with one of the worst job markets in a long while but at least there's severance to lessen the pain. If I'm not laid off but others on my team are, at least I'll still have a job but at what price? We'll be expected to pick up the extra work and I highly doubt we'll be getting any kind of extra compensation. And I'm overworked as it is. There's really no good option here.

Citi did extraordinary well in 2025 and made it's position top among global banks and J got a 42 million etc but how did it happen? They are cutting left and right, people are overworking, or not working (like me,got fed up with lowest rating). So it's the FEAR which is working, is it?

Anyone else here feel like their manager is constantly throwing work your way just to seem busy so the manager can appear like they had accomplished a lot of goals for the quarter??

On top of that, my workload has doubled because of the reductions. Everyone I've spoken to is drowning in work and leadership keeps droning on about efficiency. I'm doing work that previously had nothing to do with me. At this rate, I'll take a pay cut just to work somewhere else. I guess that's what they want.

A couple of people on my team are included in the recent Marketing RIF. They’re still sticking around until May, but I can clearly see them completely checked out. Our manager doesn’t care and just assigns all new work to me, while they get to sit back and relax for the next couple of months and still get a paycheck. One of the guys was scrolling LinkedIn jobs all day last week at the office, laptop wasn’t even open. I support them looking out for themselves, but our workload hasn’t decreased with the RIF, so I’m just getting overloaded. Anyone else experience that the RIFs are just making the remaining team members more overworked with no reward?

My team is half the size it was last year but the output expected from us is exactly the same. I'm overwhelmed every single day trying to cover the gaps. Getting a package to leave is starting to seem like a better deal than this grind.

It's painfully clear that the culture here openly rewards people who live and breathe this company. If you have family commitments or outside interests, well tough luck, you're at a clear disadvantage. The unspoken expectation is to be always on and available. If this is not true for you, consider yourself lucky.

I thought it was a good idea to keep piling on extra work to make myself layoff-proof. Instead, I'm now drowning, my work quality is significantly suffering, and I've set an unsustainable standard. I might have actually made myself a target by being stretched too thin.

Those of us who lost half our teams and weren’t absorbed into other groups are about to live a nightmare. They might reduce our workload because they know we physically can’t do it anymore, but I highly doubt it. Get ready to go from overworked to “family, what is that?”

That position sounds horrendous. Did they give you an option for the severance or did they just pick who they're keeping? This job su-ks now and adding hiring, training, doing schedule, covering call offs/short staff on top of being a rep and cleaning up backrooms. That sounds like 70 hrs a week. Those of you that took the role what you thinking????

Why did we allow it to come to this? Why are so many of us so willing to take on work from our laid off teammates to the point where we're constantly overworked but still expected to pick up more - and then we do! How is this our new normal? Nothing will change until we all say enough and just start refusing extra work. Let them deal with the consequences of their actions for once.

https://www.indiatimes.com/worth/news/amid-layoffs-twitter-employees-told-to-work-12-hours-a-day-7-days-a-week-to-meet-musks-deadlines/articleshow/127201884.html

It’s such a sh-t show! This is how we get better?!?!?!? This is how we beat the competition?!?!?!?! These a-holes torture us for a year with the layoff, surprise us with the return to office 4 days into this circus cr-p of unassigned seating!!!! This is their response to those of us who said we believe in this company to ride it out with you all and get it on track???!! The new op model is a joke and the leaders still haven’t defined roles, requiring us to work a sh-t ton of overtime where we need to concentrate. What a joke of a leadership crew we have. They ki-led this company. I’d have more respect if they are doing this on purpose, but likely they think they are making the right moves. Wtf!!!!!???!!

Make the LT surf a floor for a place to sit everyday and focus on this bs they created! Can you tell I’m pi---d