Work sucks - especially with micromanaging

[Jeff]

I had that same problem...  You need a new job.  Seriously...

my problem was quite similar (you do too much work, nobody else gets a chance to, at your level you should be letting others do this, etc etc etc).  Several companies and positions later, I'm quite content to be middle-management and not quite so die-hard to my position. 

I get my job done, and do it very well.  I put in extra when I need to, but I also can disconnect from it in a second and leave it behind.  If the job routinely takes more than 40 hours a week for one person, the company needs more people...

[DavidV]

thanks guys.  Yea I guess it was stupid of me to work from home for free. I thought they would have appreciated it and valued me as an employee, but I guess no good deed goes unpunished.

I am looking to move around December/January. I will probably move out of state, I've been at this job for 3 years and feel like it is time to move on.  Right now I work around 45hrs a week

[barb_arah]

Here's a rhetorical question for you...What do you do when you find yourself working in a department whose only job requirements are that you have a pulse and you're breathing?

[resurection]

This sounds crazy but at work we had a slow period and the boss still had us working O.T.
And with little or nothing to do so I started working 8hr days ,because I had work @ home .
When working 8hrs the afternoon break is eliminated .
Well I was taking one anyway ,A coworker tattled on me ,when the boss confronted me he told me he would rather pay me time and a half with me taking a break than listen to the tattletail.
He would rather pay me 50$for 45min.than listen to that cry baby.
Your boss may be doing his best to deal with stress created by crying coworkers!!

[Burt Munro]

What do you do when you find yourself working in a department whose only job requirements are that you have a pulse and you're breathing?

ummm.... Stash a portable defibrillator in your backpack and tuck an oxygen tank under your arm????

[barb_arah]

ummm.... Stash a portable defibrillator in your backpack and tuck an oxygen tank under your arm????

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.  Good one.

[Court Jester]

Hard to think that I would ever support authority, but... I can see your boss' point, though I wouldn't loss any sleep over it if I where you. Most companies worry as much about Workers Rights issues and Wrongful termination issues more than, or as much as anything else going on in the company. And stuff like that is 100% HR's responsibility. Basically, if the person in question where to be terminated and wanted unemployment or wanted to try to push a wrongful termination case in court, this would come up and the company would have to show that they took at least some interest to investigate the issue with other team members. If they couldn't do that then the terminated employee would have proof that the company did not treat issues with this person fairly or equally in respect to other team members. That doesn't mean you have to solve every issue the same way, but they should be given equal documented attention and resolved by the investigation's findings. My number one question when dealing with other people is "How could a lawyer use this?".
The law is in place for a very good reason. God, I can't believe I just said that. But if things are as you explained them, your boss likely talked to you because he HAD to and not because he felt like he had to alleviate a problem. Every half-wit manager knows that when a bad employee is caught and cornered the first thing they do is point their finger to divert attention away from themselves.
Your boss and the company are likely just covering their own butt's just in case the other team members has to be let go. I wouldn't lose a second's sleep over it.

[resurection]

Ya that's how I saw my issue .
The boss had to say something or he may be accused of showing favoritism

[unforgivenracing]

Over the years I have become tunned in on the signs of micromanaging.  I keep my resume updated for just such upcoming nightmares.  The first signs at a larger company was training my new boss as to what I do.  At the smaller end was finding the locks had changed.

[resurection]

When projects at work are getting started the design engineer who's a great guy and does the the job of being younger bro. to the boss.
  He's really the boss too.

  He can't keep his nose out of my job !When it's crunch time and things all start coming together I think it's Q to run back to design work.
And leave me to finish building the mold.

[GSXRScott]

Work should stay at work, especially if you've got a family.  Your priorities are out of whack.

I do however understand your point of view.  You should be rewarded for going the extra mile, not chastised.

[barb_arah]

I think work sucks so we can appreciate the weekends.