This sounds like it was a good one to get off your chest! I know the feelings, I’ve worked with people often who don’t understand work safety. I got a cut on my hand once at work and immediately went over to employee health to make sure I had it documented and a colleague of mine said I was acting like a child and she had gotten all kinds of injuries at work without saying a word. I told her about a former coworker of mine that got a simple cut on her hand and now she’s permanently infected with MRSA and disabled for life, with her arm being full of fluid and swollen. She brushed it off still but the woman who got infected ended up getting fired from the company because they didn’t want to keep paying her disability. Companies don’t give two shits about you, they will replace you at the earliest possible moment is what I learned and I won’t sacrifice myself for that shit.
The workload and efficiency is another thing that’s funny and annoying. The older generation is more of the nature to take on the burden by themselves and keep the knowledge close to their chest figuratively speaking without sharing with others. They think it’s job security but it’s really not. It’s inefficient and the younger generation like what sounds like you and I are in are about efficiency and productivity. More hands speed up the work and allow higher throughput. They don’t understand that though because they’ve done it in one way for so long.
I have been in all these situations and more! Just keep on going, they will eventually retire and we can move on!
Finally! Someone else that gets it 😭😭😭 I swear, one of my colleagues already had a nasty acid burn and the higher ups even blamed us for not being careful when they were lacking in the safety equipment issued to us. But the thing with your colleague and MSRA tho, that's scary shit you got there 😳 what kind of environment do you have that gets you infected with MSRA that fast, or was it because she self medicated on the wrong kind of antibiotics??? That's just crazy. I can't believe she didn't report it first thing though. The infection could have been prevented if she has said something to management earlier.
LoL they definitely don't know how to share workload and their only answer to everything is overtime overtime and more overtime and dedicating all your time at the company won't give you the perks of inheriting the company. Heck, the overtime pay isn't even worth it so why not work on everything as a team? Like this is why I initiate a team huddle/activity meeting for the next day with the team I handle because usually we get samples by the hundreds and we often want to finish everything in 2-3 days if possible so that we could rest for the rest of the week yet they don't seem to understand the need for rest. Idk with the boomer generation, man. They have some serious issues and I wish these boomers could resign sooner
It's like they've pretended for so long that they don't need rest that they've forgotten how important it is. Because the most important thing is (apparently) the quantity of hours "worked" not the quality of work done or the actual amount of work achieved in that time.
I've been in job situations just like you describe. It's pretty damn ludicrous and it would be hilarious if it wasn't so frustrating. It's also pretty sad. Like why chose to devote your precious time to work you barely even care about and therefore don't even do well? Sounds like these people just need others to look down upon! Maybe that's all they have left... :/
Take care of yourself out there!
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