#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.

[ex0toxin]

karaoke!! 🎤🎵✨

jsys week'24, day 5

[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

[paint-it-dead]

𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝓼𝓪𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓯𝓲𝓬𝓮 😔🥀⛓️

HAPPY PRIDE EVERYBODY!!!❤️

[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

[jonahmagnus]

Paranatural fandom rn

[batsight]

Star Flower, loner, Medic of SkyClan

She/Her, cis bisexual

Mother: Turnip

Father: One Eye

Adoptive Father: Skystar

Siblings: Unnamed, all deceased.

Design notes:

-She is styled after the Pokemon, Ogerpon

-The plants are a physical part of her body. They grow out of her.

-She is the physical embodiment of The Blazing Star.

Story notes: [Abuse CW]

-She was born as a normal kitten to a traveling band of rogues who loved to trade and spread their music. Unfortunately, this band died out to a plague, one that nearly took her own life. Desperate to save his family, her father Carrot traveled to a set of tunnels in Sanctuary Lake rumored to house a reality-bending god. He asked the god for a cure, and the god asked for his eye in return. They made the exchange, and he retrieved a glowing, golden, five pointed flower. However, he was too late to save most of his family, so the entire cure went to his surviving kit. He wasn't expecting her to survive the night given her fragile state and the dubiousness of the exchange...

-But the next morning, she was perfectly fine- great, even. If a little... odd... were those buds growing on her paws...?

-It only got stranger from there. When Carrot ended up finding more cats suffering from the plague, just a few calming purrs from his kit seemed to have them ripe and ready to go the next morning. Carrot understood then what had happened- his kit had become the cure herself. And cats were starting to look towards them more, started begging for her healing, for anything. And Carrot had lost everything... wasn't it time to start winning stuff back?

-And so, the pair became One Eye and Star Flower, for recognition's sake. The two formed their own small group, filled with cats Star Flower had healed. Star Flower loved to spread her magic where she went, to save cats from the brink of death and be showered with their love and appreciation. They felt like they owed a great debt to her, and she enjoyed that.

-She was very close with her father, even if their relationship could be strained. One Eye loved her, but to an extent, he also used her. He grew arrogant in his success, believing he had become the accomplice to a god, and began to hold that over cats who fell sick. He grew desperate for control and Star Flower was his key to that.

-One day, however, her father's group encountered the early clans. They were just beginning to settle down, work out their new rules, and declare borders. But what caught the group's attention was the near murder of a young kittypet, almost mauled to death by proto-SkyClan's leader, Skystar. Unable to heal wounds with her magic, Star Flower managed to bring the cat to a twoleg, who took her away.

-Appalled by the cruelty, Star Flower took a great interest in Skystar's group, and witnessed several of his other crimes against his cats and the other groups. As did One Eye, who, seeing the early signs of a plague, had an idea to put this cat and the other leaders in their place.

-One Eye and Star Flower joined the group, with One Eye acting as a curious loner, flattering Skystar with praise. Skystar enjoyed his company, and so One Eye grew in the rank rather quickly. He also took a great interest in Star Flower and her abilities. After murdering Tom, who insulted the cats and attempted to attack them, One Eye took the chance to take control over the group, overpowering Skystar and using Star Flower's power to keep the remaining cats in line- everything is going to be okay, you'll get your cure... if you stay in line and do as One Eye says.

-This went on for a moon, of Star Flower holding her magic over the heads of her clients to keep their loyalty towards One Eye. She would be lying if she said she didn't feel pride at it all at helping her father.

-Ultimately, One Eye was overthrown and killed when Skystar came back with reinforcements from the other clans. The rest of the rogues they'd accumulated ran off, and suddenly, Star Flower was alone. She'd never been without her father, and running would mean abandoning his grave, which she didn't want. But... this place had been a home to her for some time now, and she needed a place to stay. SkyClan had taken all of the available territory in the area, anyways, and she was in no shape to brave the other territories or twolegplace. So she offered her power to SkyClan as a peace offering and asked for shelter in return.

-Skystar was still sore from the event, but he couldn't deny that having Star Flower as an asset would be beneficial to him in the long run. And around this point, his son Thunderstar had disowned him and split off ThunderClan from SkyClan. He felt that he was losing allies, losing family, and he latched on to desperate Star Flower very quickly- as a cat who would never disobey him.

-Skystar takes Star Flower under his wing as his new child, her new ward, instating her as a medic. And because she is loyal to a fault, she won't disobey a new leader so similar to her father. And so, he pushes her to do humiliating things in front of the camp, ranging from general chores like tick baths, to forcing her to run laps around camp with an injury if she took too long to work her magic. He would take out his frustration from gatherings on her and berate her over the most menial things. He would make her withhold her power to help anyone in the clan who had displeased him. And if Star Flower ever tried to stick up for herself, all he had to do was remind her of what she did, how she helped torment his cats by holding a cure over their heads to help out her father.

-This went on for years, Star Flower becoming more and more despondent. One night, there was a particularly stressful gathering, in which Skystar got into a territorial dispute with Thunderstar over a pack of dogs ravaging the territories. He lost the dispute, came home, and immediately took it out on Star Flower, shouting at and attacking the molly for "taking too much food she didn't deserve". And something in Star Flower finally snapped, and for the first time, she didn't save a life- she took one. And another. And another. As many as what remained in Skystar's soul. She was discovered taking his very last life in his nest, while she was wondering if she could pin it on the dogs. She escaped the camp, and wandered the territory for the rest of her life.

-Unfortunately, while she finally won against Skystar in the moment, it was history who decided the victor. Sparrowstar declared that they couldn't let a tragedy like this happen ever again, and doubled down on banishing rogues. Every rogue-born cat was looked at with suspicion from then on, and as the decades began to pass, Star Flower's story became twisted and bent. As the story is told, a rogue had infiltrated SkyClan's camp asking for help, but had manipulated and charmed the leader with her prowess and rose in the ranks just high enough to take him out and attempt to claim his spot. Her story was used as a cautionary tale against rogues, warning cats against those who would infiltrate the camp and rot it from the inside. Eventually, even her true name was lost to time...

Rotten Flower, Warrior of The Dark Forest

Skystar didn't hesitate to throw her in the depth of the Dark Forest when she died. She wears her mask constantly, trying to keep away from the sickness of the muck. She's embraced the false myth made about her, claiming to have killed a founder for power and prestige. But in reality, it's been so long that she's forgotten her family, her power, her name. She barely even remembers Skystar himself. Though she's admired in the Dark Forest for her achievements, she doesn't hang around anyone, and acts hostile to those who approach her.

Perhaps someone can help her remember who she truly is...?

[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.

[eggsdrawings]

they hate each other (they are dating)

[dykeferatu]

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

[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

[supergameboytwo]

Can people stop having kids so I can go home on time

[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