#leave and overtime

[watchingmywork]

How Can Overtime Management Impact Employee Morale?

Managing overtime plays a crucial role in shaping the overall atmosphere in a workplace, especially in how employees feel about their jobs, work-life balance, and productivity. Balancing workloads and ensuring fair treatment when it comes to extra hours can positively or negatively impact employee morale.

In this blog, We will explore how the effective or ineffective management of overtime can influence the mood, engagement, and retention of employees.

Understanding Overtime Management

Overtime management refers to the strategies and procedures used by organizations to regulate extra working hours, ensuring they are reasonable, balanced, and fairly distributed among the workforce. When managed correctly, overtime can be seen as an opportunity for employees to earn additional income and show their commitment to the company. However, poorly managed overtime can lead to burnout, resentment, and dissatisfaction.

The Positive Side of Overtime Management

When managed well, overtime can be a rewarding experience for employees. Here’s how:

Increased Earnings

For many employees, overtime means more money. By allowing employees to work extra hours, businesses provide them with the chance to boost their earnings. If employees are compensated fairly for their overtime pay, they may feel more valued, which leads to an increase in morale.

Recognition of Hard Work

Overtime can be a form of recognition for employees who go above and beyond. When staff is asked to work extra hours due to high demand or tight deadlines, the company trusts them to handle additional responsibility. This recognition can increase employees’ job satisfaction and motivation.

Career Growth Opportunities

Overtime can also lead to skill development and career advancement opportunities. Working additional hours may allow employees to take on new challenges, collaborate with different teams, or complete important projects. This enhances their professional experience, leading to greater job satisfaction.

Team Building

Overtime can help build stronger teams, especially when employees collaborate on projects outside regular working hours. This can foster better communication, mutual support, and trust among colleagues, which ultimately improves overall morale.

The Negative Effects of Poor Overtime Management

While overtime has benefits, poor management of overtime can severely impact employee morale. Here’s how:

Burnout

One of the most significant risks of excessive overtime is employee burnout. If employees are repeatedly expected to work overtime without adequate rest or time off, they may get exhausted, both physically and mentally. Employees who feel overworked may experience stress, reduced productivity, and decreased job satisfaction.

Work-Life Imbalance

Constant overtime disrupts employees' work-life balance, leaving them with little time for family, hobbies, or rest. Over time, this imbalance can lead to frustration, disengagement, and a feeling of being undervalued, causing a significant dip in morale.

Resentment Towards the Company

Employees who are frequently asked to work overtime without clear communication or fair compensation may begin to feel resentful towards the company. This resentment can erode loyalty, decrease enthusiasm, and lead to higher turnover rates. Employees who feel their work isn’t being recognized or fairly compensated are less likely to stay motivated.

Decreased Productivity

While employees may initially feel enthusiastic about overtime, excessive hours without proper management can reduce productivity. Over time, fatigue sets in, leading to errors, reduced focus, and slower work rates. This can ultimately affect the quality of the output and contribute to a negative work environment.

Health Concerns

Long hours and stress from overwork can have severe health consequences. Chronic overtime can lead to physical ailments such as headaches, eye strain, and sleep disturbances, as well as mental health issues like anxiety or depression.

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Conclusion

In summary, the management of overtime has a significant impact on employee morale, with the potential for both positive and negative outcomes. Effective management practices can enhance job satisfaction, foster professional growth, and boost team collaboration, all of which contribute to a motivated workforce. However, when overtime is poorly managed or overused, it can lead to burnout, work-life imbalance, and resentment. By establishing a solid overtime management policy, businesses can protect employee well-being while ensuring that extra hours are used strategically and ethically, ultimately fostering a more productive and engaged workforce.

[crystallizsch]

i really like how canonically yuu is genuinely supportive of grim wanting to be a great mage. if i recall correctly, even character voice lines point this out. and it seems like yuu dotes on grim a lot and defends him too??? yuu even encourages grim's ambitions whenever he declares wanting to be a great mage. and also when he does that boss-henchhuman dynamic. i mean yeah you can interpret it as yuu saying that being condescending and sarcastic as if they're talking to a child saying "when i grow up i want to be famous!" but like. i really think they're genuine when mc loves grim in their own way.

even if grim is usually a menace, he's become like family to yuu.

and i'm pretty sure grim feels the same way.

think about it this way. despite all the mess, all the unpredictability, the danger, and all the drama being in nrc. what's always the constant? yuu goes home at the end of the day to the ramshackle dorm (basically their home at this point considering they slowly but surely fix it up over time) and with who? “the great mage” grim. as the sole outcasts in that academy, they both sleep soundly knowing they will always have each other at the end of the day.

[ahappydnp]

saturday??? is nothing sacred anymore

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

help me kickstart my proportionally accurate true crime podcast where 70% of my episodes are about wage theft, a few are auto theft, war crimes, price fixing, and scams, and if i get to fifty thousand episodes i'll talk about an isolated murder

[sylvia-forest]

[CN] Shaw's New SSR Card

The auspicious hour has arrived, with heaven and earth as our witnesses."

— —"I belong to myself.

Since I can only marry you, why haven’t you taken me away yet?

The auspicious hour has arrived, with heaven and earth as our witnesses."

"Loving this doesn't require anyone's permission."

—

—"Of course, I know you’ve been waiting for me."

[Date Blurbs]

"A Sweet and Sour Encounter"

How could he suddenly disappear, only to reappear the next moment dressed in wedding attire to marry someone else??

As this absurd wedding interruption begins, the awkward pang of jealousy turns out to be even more addictive than the sweetness of being in love.

Life is long—long enough to want to walk with him forever;

Life is also short—short enough that if the bride isn’t you, it just won’t do.

—"Of course, I know you’ve been waiting for me."

—

[merakiui]

Oh, to be able to fuck incubus Jade silly after everything he's put you through ❤️

Maybe you weren't that immune to his charms after all, but since he's been so very hungry as he claimed, he should have no problem with this of course! He should thank you for the tasty meal.

Let's hope Floyd doesn't know about this because he's never gonna live it down. (He'll either need to fuck your brains out in revenge or he'll just be sulking in a corner for a week straight)

-🦈

Pulling him back onto your strap/dick by the tail if he tries to crawl away because he was not expecting you'd hate-fuck him this hard and rough!!! >:) but then this is exactly where he wants to be. He's so immensely pleased with himself even when you're making an absolute mess out of him. Truly the soggiest, most pathetic incubus of all time, but he's only like this with you. <3 anyone else is subjected to the fearsome, demonic terror that he is. But for you? For you, he's something of a bashful maiden in love hehe.

It takes a lot to catch Jade off guard, and he plays these silly games to win, determined that with enough prodding you'll eventually give him. But you manage to take him by surprise when you finally decide to give him what he's been lusting after and hungering for all these months. It likely happens on the one day Floyd has to report back to his superiors in heaven, and normally he could care less about following procedure and whatnot. But if he doesn't at least put in the bare minimum of effort they might assign him elsewhere and he'll never see his shrimpy again! D: he can't have that.

Jade's notorious for never being satisfied after feasting no matter how much he has sex, so this is the one time he genuinely feels full. You are a very special human indeed; he's very obsessed and very well-fed after your little tryst. He probably returns to the underworld to brag about his success to Azul LOL.

And Floyd!!!! Aaaaa poor Floyd. >_< maybe he gets his revenge by fondling you while you're sleeping or when you're making breakfast. You slept with a devil, so now sleep with an angel and let him purify you. He's your guardian angel and you're his human shrimpy, after all. It's his job to look after you, so just let him do his thing and you'll feel good. <3

[alexanderpearce]

lord please give me this promotion

[mwolf0epsilon]

How to fix 'All Engines Go', an experimental concept:

I've been chatting with @british-hero about TTTE and time and time again AEG has shown up as the black sheep of the franchise (which I understand perfectly, some of the... Err... Choices are a LITTLE questionable at times, but at least it's not the worst of the worst of BWBA am I right?). From remaking specific characters to make them more "appealing to children", to relegating beloved characters to background only, AEG has rubbed old-time fans the wrong way because it's essentially just a reskinned Paw Patrol-type show.

While I haven't exactly grown up with the show, I can definitely see where Rogue is coming from when they twist their nose. And honestly I think I do have a very quick and simple fix for the show's universe. Or, at least Rogue seems to agree with my concept for remaking it:

It's a fairly simple fix but I think it honestly would have benefited the show a lot more if instead of changing characterizations, they just assigned the OG cast teacher positions, and brought in new engines to be the students.

It wouldn't have upset so many longtime fans, and it would have given newer generations a better taste of TTTE while also still having "kid characters" they can relate to.

Honestly the show has a very lovely art style, and aside from making the engines move in VERY BIZARRE ways, it's not badly animated. It's just a pity that Mattel doesn't seem to understand what the audience wants...

But yeah, those are my two cents on this whole thing.

[dykeferatu]

addicted to making characters with deep-seated loneliness no matter how much they refuse to admit it

[finrays]

The cool thing about my workplace is that even if it can’t adhere to the “if something can’t be done in a 40 hour workweek/8 hour workday it’s not worth doing” principle because the science waits for no one, especially when it’s fish science that relies on hitting the right weather and tidal cycles, they do make amends for it, even though we’re salaried.

It’s more like “We recognize that you have had to work 15 extra hours this week to get our surveys done. We’re sorry about that. Here are 20 hours of paid leave to make up for it. Please take them at your leisure.”

So yes. I’m working overtime when we’re in Go Mode, but when things settle? I do get compensated for it by being allowed to skip work. It’s why I’m able to take so much time off and leave early on office days and stuff, and I’m frankly kind of ok with that.

[quaranmine]

the amount of math i put into figuring out my PTO is honestly so funny. i've probably spent like 2 hours this week and last week just playing with the leave calculator spreadsheet my coworker gave me. this morning i added a sheet for 2026 so now i'm calculating my PTO out that far. i basically already have a plan of how i'm taking time off for 2025 so as to maximize my time off in 2026. i dont think this is a normal level of attention to detail but at least i'm having fun

[knifefightscene]

wrote a long ass text to my manager because my department lose two people (to another place) and they refuse to hire more & expect me to cover that workload. like when the first person left, i covered her work but now two??? you paid me one salary and want me to do three jobs? kys

[smolestboop]

the only time I genuinely used chatgpt was making my resignation letter to my shit ass job. the level of idgaf to this job is when you use ai on them.

[keeperthemultiversemom]

Not me finally working on Keeper asks again only to realise that I lost a few of them

I must've put them in my drafts and it got deleted 😭 noooooooo

I'm so sorry

The asks were about someone complimenting Keeper, and one probably about her relationship to Archivist but I'm not sure

I hate that I can't answer the Archivist one because it was the reveal that he's her adopted son 😭

[anonymusbosch]

today after work i sat in the car in the parking lot for 30 straight minutes staring at my phone ("vegetarian options near me") staring out the windshield at the gray sky (slowly getting darker) staring at my phone ("hi [manager] i was not cool with") and staring out the windshield trying to swallow some seething and a headache to drive back with a cool head.

i don't - i don't get angry. not really. frustrated, grumpy, irked, annoyed - sure. i am not moved to out-loud anger: raised voice, yelling, outbursts. whatever rises I am capable of biting back.

kept my cool long enough to get a Vegetarian Options Near Me (note: bad) and long enough after that to go buy ingredients that i can make food with in a hotel microwave. took care of some of the needs of the flesh. called partner. could relay nothing but the insanity of the work conversations and, in speaking, heard again the words that had driven me to muteness earlier

"I would have just said 'what the fuck' out loud" says the phone.

and I had, alone, in my car, quietly, "what is wrong with you" and "what the fuck" and "what is your problem", but not in conversation.

for which i am giving myself several gold stars today and resolving for tomorrow:

* literally leave the conversation and walk away while they're talking to you if they don't give you grace to leave

* don't play their games

* data, document, propose solution. ask for nothing. especially permission to do your damn job

* buy a fucking soldering iron.