When you do more than necessary, one or more of the following will happen:
- Your coworkers stop doing their most unpleasant tasks, knowing you’ll pick up the slack.
- Your more ambitious coworkers start sabotaging you, viewing you as a rival to the next higher position.
- Your less ambitious coworkers start sabotaging you, cause your effort shines a light on how little they get done.
- Your boss notices unrest in his team and boots you to restore the peace.
Free career advice: Do the average team member’s amount of the assigned work.
If you have the time and motivation to do more, use that to improve your efficiency through automation, self-study, researching methods that reduce friction, etc. If you’re in a job that lend itself to automation, you will at some point be able to spend most of your time for studying.
Share your new tools with the team to help them.
When you feel limited by your role, apply somewhere else with your new skills.
You forgot a couple: Do more than necessary and
Your boss expects you to do it all the time now for no extra compensation
If you stop doing more than necessary you are suddenly being lazy and not a team player.
You become too ‘essential’ in that position that promotions are pretty much off the table for as long as you work there.
Sounds like upper management to me!
Does your friend work for Lumon or something?
I’d frame that. Hard to think of a compliment that tops that to be honest
That’s because my pay is calculated poverty.
sounds like the perfect amount of effort for a shitty paycheck that you still need. just enough to keep the job and stay out of ‘trouble’, but not so much that more is expected.
but not so much that more is expected.
This is my problem, I’ve been plagued with the curse of competence and an inability to keep my mouth shut. This leads me to accidentally volunteer for seemingly easy tasks that ‘only require a bit of automation…’ and I lose weeks of time.
