spaffy-jimble:

strongorcbutch:

sodomymcscurvylegs:

Employers that throw around the phrase “going above and beyond” should be banned from running a business. It’s exploitative, because the actual translation for that is: “I want you to do work that isn’t your job and isn’t in your job description without paying you for it. Give me free labor.”

This is a lesson I learned over and over again. Mostly because I grew up abused and it took me time to get over my streak of “be excessively helpful even to your employers so that you won’t be abused”. Which says something about both of those situations really.

But every time I went “above and beyond” for an employer it was treated as if it was expected. As if it was just a part of the job. In fact sometimes it was even punished. More than once I’ve revamped a department and made it run better, more efficiently, and so on, and both ended up in a layoff for me, either as a scapegoat for problems that the company already had but that my work uncovered, or so that my immediate supervisors could take the credit. 

Capitalism prevents us from being our best selves.