Advice required regarding annual pay review

LinLui

TELLIT01 said:

I would just add to my previous comment, that I once worked with a guy who didn't take his lunch break and would stay to do unpaid overtime because he had "More work than I can complete within office hours".  He wasn't seen as the hero by management, he was seen as the person they knew they could always dump the work on.  He didn't get bigger payrises than anybody else either.

You've just part described my wonderful boss. Who struggles with his workload, gets more piled on him because they know he'll do it,  has no capacity or resources yet people who do SFA and get it all produce next to nothing. He works long weekday and most weekends. Works on holiday too. He knows that within the next two years he'll be redundant because he's an easy target despite all this. 

I glad I'm retiring before he kills himself with all this.  The joke of it is,  when they wanted someone to champion "combatting stress at work" they asked him to do it! And he agreed. 

sheramber

The more you do the more you will expected to do.

As long as you can say you have done a days work then anything not done is not your problem.

Go home and leave your work in the office. 

Savvy_Sue

And what would they do if you fell under a bus tomorrow? Trust me, they'd cope ...

Once upon a time, I was very late leaving work, wanting to finish 'stuff' to give a clean start the next day. DH and I were tired, and just wanted to get to bed. 

Only, it didn't quite happen that way, I ended up going to A&E by ambulance, and to the 'hot fracture clinic' the next morning, where I was signed off work for 8 weeks, no questions asked.

Work were in the process of appointing a new manager for me, completely new post, who ended up starting before I returned from sick leave. 

If ever either I or my work colleagues had thought me indispensable, THAT incident proved I wasn't. No-one is. And I was doing payroll ...