Or did you when you had one?
Right now? To an certain extent, no.
Right now? To an certain extent, no.
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Do you feel appreciated at your job?
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peeonme
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I worked at a lot of places, mostly small companies with under 20 people. I dealt with the owners daily and while they liked my work, they resented paying me. There were a few that were fine decent men, but most just hated parting with money.
fabulouslyghetto
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sis please don't tell me you're one of those 48 year olds who work at Bojangles or as a cashier at Walmart.
Willie Boy
BOO!!! Mwahahahaha!!!!!
Yes I did. I was the boss and everybody liked me. I did what I though was reasonable for the employees, they called it generous. Things ran smoothly and everybody was happy, up until I retired. Since I hired new management (I also own the company) things don't run as smoothly as they used to and people aren't nearly as happy as they were....
tarallucci
e acqua
It's hard to answer lol. I am well liked by the boss and coworkers but this job isn't exactly what I want to do. They appreciate my reliability and humanity but I don't really care about what's going on... so I guess they keep me for that. They told me that it would be difficult to replace me (which is not true lol) and that I should commit more (which is true).
Willie Boy
BOO!!! Mwahahahaha!!!!!
So, yes you feel appreciated. You just don't much appreciate the job (you don't care for it).
As much as anyone ever is, yes.
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oakpope
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If I was not appreciated, I would have been fired a long time ago, seeing how many days I missed from illness.
NotHardUp1
What? Me? Really?
Yes and no.
My former job was very difficult. As a program manager, I was pinned between a company determined to not perform as promised and a customer who was both incompetent (with specs) and unreasonable. Mix in the firing of the only guy who knew the design in a precarious product redevelopment, and you get a recipe for insane pressure. It was all the worse for the high confidence my general manager and customer had in my abilities. Unfortunately, it was simply impossible and I parted with the company after five years.
I share all that not to be boring, but to say that sometimes being appreciated isn't enough. "You're great! We know you can do it!" is cold comfort when the ship's on fire and the crew left.
My current job is not as difficult and the pay is less accordingly, but the hours are often cruel and relentless. Financial deadlines are stacked up like planes at Atlanta, circling. My company thinks nothing of adding requirement on top of requirement on top of requirement, which is simply demoralizing. I have to work straight through weekends at times, and often have more to present in reviews than any of my peers.
When I finally took a few days off and took a friend on a trip, I couldn't enjoy it for knowing I'd be coming back to a set of deadlines and a crushing backlog of catch-up work to do.
The vice-president bragged on my work Friday, but after nagging on me in public in the reviews. If it doesn't get better by year end, I may have to look again. Being invaluable isn't a good thing when the company isn't distributing the workload evenly. Others in my job area have too little to do. I'm getting behind at home because I can't get time to do it all.
My former job was very difficult. As a program manager, I was pinned between a company determined to not perform as promised and a customer who was both incompetent (with specs) and unreasonable. Mix in the firing of the only guy who knew the design in a precarious product redevelopment, and you get a recipe for insane pressure. It was all the worse for the high confidence my general manager and customer had in my abilities. Unfortunately, it was simply impossible and I parted with the company after five years.
I share all that not to be boring, but to say that sometimes being appreciated isn't enough. "You're great! We know you can do it!" is cold comfort when the ship's on fire and the crew left.
My current job is not as difficult and the pay is less accordingly, but the hours are often cruel and relentless. Financial deadlines are stacked up like planes at Atlanta, circling. My company thinks nothing of adding requirement on top of requirement on top of requirement, which is simply demoralizing. I have to work straight through weekends at times, and often have more to present in reviews than any of my peers.
When I finally took a few days off and took a friend on a trip, I couldn't enjoy it for knowing I'd be coming back to a set of deadlines and a crushing backlog of catch-up work to do.
The vice-president bragged on my work Friday, but after nagging on me in public in the reviews. If it doesn't get better by year end, I may have to look again. Being invaluable isn't a good thing when the company isn't distributing the workload evenly. Others in my job area have too little to do. I'm getting behind at home because I can't get time to do it all.
oakpope
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^Could you just do less ? And if remarked upon, just tell the truth, that it's too much, it's above what you can push every week, that's you're tiring and that tasks should be better distributed among the employee ?
NotHardUp1
What? Me? Really?
I have indeed raised the truth to the bosses. Once, I was just told to work through the weekend anyway.
We did move one program group off to one of the new hires, and he still manages to work not a minute overtime. And it's not because he's such a whiz, only that he lets it go incomplete or such.
I am working less overtime than I did, but still hit 60 and 70 at times.
But, I work 10 hour days, and it just leaves me so drained when I get home that I am too tired to get anything done. I guess I'm actually glad I'm not partnered, or a parent, as I'm sure I'd get home cranky after such days.
The worst part is so much of our jobs are redundant. They ask us about the program's finances, ask again, ask it again a different way, and can't seem to get the data we just gave them from the other report. On top of that, our systems seem to not fully be reliable, so we constantly are going behind them, checking this, adjusting that, and so forth. It's maddening.
We did move one program group off to one of the new hires, and he still manages to work not a minute overtime. And it's not because he's such a whiz, only that he lets it go incomplete or such.
I am working less overtime than I did, but still hit 60 and 70 at times.
But, I work 10 hour days, and it just leaves me so drained when I get home that I am too tired to get anything done. I guess I'm actually glad I'm not partnered, or a parent, as I'm sure I'd get home cranky after such days.
The worst part is so much of our jobs are redundant. They ask us about the program's finances, ask again, ask it again a different way, and can't seem to get the data we just gave them from the other report. On top of that, our systems seem to not fully be reliable, so we constantly are going behind them, checking this, adjusting that, and so forth. It's maddening.
oakpope
Look, listen and rejoice
Can't you build a BI robust program ? That kind of work is so tedious 
(I'm program manager too). I can accept some weekend work, but only if it is indeed an urgency, and not more than 4/5 times a year. Otherwise it's exploitation. I have made 70h/week too, but it's exceptional, and in Europe the legal maximum hours a week is 48h/week averaged on 17 weeks. And in France if you work Saturdays or Sundays you are paid more and can have free days later to compensate.
Come and go to Paris ! We lack good programmers
(I'm program manager too). I can accept some weekend work, but only if it is indeed an urgency, and not more than 4/5 times a year. Otherwise it's exploitation. I have made 70h/week too, but it's exceptional, and in Europe the legal maximum hours a week is 48h/week averaged on 17 weeks. And in France if you work Saturdays or Sundays you are paid more and can have free days later to compensate.Come and go to Paris ! We lack good programmers
NotHardUp1
What? Me? Really?
Oh, I'm not a programmer. I'm a financial analyst, a program controls guy.
But thank you for your suggestions. My boss has paid me some overtime for some of the work, but I don't want the pay, or the overtime. I want my life. I'm too old to be living at work.
But thank you for your suggestions. My boss has paid me some overtime for some of the work, but I don't want the pay, or the overtime. I want my life. I'm too old to be living at work.
LeicsDom
JUB Addict
Mostly. Yes
Rickrock
JUB Addict
My last job, more or less yes. The one I had before that, they liked me many years ago, but later they got new programs and expected them to make my job faster, but they didn't take into consideration there was extra keying of information. The last five or more years were stressful. I was putting in more hours and not getting paid for it and somehow they didn't understand that and let me go.