#overworked

LBT owns tons of companies. If he only works part time, why he layoff people working 60 hours per week by excuse of RTO?

I spend all day in pointless meetings that add zero value. Then I have to work late to actually get my work done because there's no time during the day. It's a constant cycle of falling behind.

It's not as if it will ever pay off. The only thing one can hope for is to be worked to the point of exhaustion, ditched and replaced. Working hard once made sense. Putting in some extra effort opened doors and created opportunities. It's pure masochism these days. What is it? Fear, habit, delusions that it might help you keep the job?

No offense intended to any recent layoffs or anyone that might be affected in the future.

I am a long term high performer. As a result of a recent reorg, bringing our team into IT that shouldn't be in IT, they put me in a brand new role I'm horrible at and I hate, and are overworking me to death. Not only does my leadership have no fu--ing clue what they're doing, they are extremely thin skinned, and not open to feedback. So fu-k it, maybe they're right, I'm not equipped for a role in their stupid bullsh-t org. I think they're going to fu-k up royally and cost the company a lot of money, but let them own it.

I am now begging, pleading with everyone I know internally to try to find a life raft. I don't even care if I have to take a pay hit, this stress is taking years off my life and will be very damaging to my career. But if I can't find something, externally or internally, I think I just need to quit. This is the d-mbest sh-t in the universe, and I really am the atlas holding a bunch up, so fu-k it, let them deal with the consequences of their stupid choices and yes men bullsh-t. They're about to do something very stupid that's going to pi-s a LOT of people off and make tons of enemies.

We used to have a slower season, a time when you could catch your breath and actually think. That doesn't exist anymore. The pace is relentless now, and the workload has become the baseline. Everyone is exhausted, but pointing it out feels pointless because leadership seems to think this is just how it should be.

Don't help them by proving that the work can be done with fewer people by breaking your own back for nothing in return. Don't say no, just say you're busy. Your plate is full. You'd love to help but there's simply not enough time for it all. They're counting on you breaking. Please don't.

I was desperate for a way out of Fiserv and the opportunity looked amazing. What it ended up turning into was endless hours, impossible deadlines, and constant panic. Now I'm stuck because it's even harder to land a job than when I left. Even Fiserv looks attractive at this point.

A coworker tried to one-up me for being tired after four days because they grind six days straight. That's such a weird flex. Cool, you give all your time to State Farm and have no free time and I do. I'll take my energy and my weekend over whatever that competition is supposed to prove.

Now the people left are doing twice the work. Every single day.

I need to pay the bills. But I'm not going to bust my a-s for a paycheck. Everything else is an insult to our intelligence. Forget promotions or a decent raise. They work you as hard as they can get away with, and then kick you to the curb. So, as far as I'm concerned - no overtime, no hard work, and I couldn't care less about outcomes. Passable coasting is all I'm willing to do until a better opportunity comes along.

Mass exodus happening across the retail space. Employees giving the middle finger to Sr Directors and directors for treating them like sh-t, threatening their jobs, overworking front line, creating their own policies. Allowing fraud and major compliance violations to occur in the name of hitting targets and leading in performance. Look very close at the areas that specifically won presidents cabinet and winners circle. Tod Rye is an absolute clown and should be fired immediately. 🤡 🐱

You can work nights and weekends and they'll still blame you for the next tiny thing. The worst people sit right next to you, take credit and disappear when there's a problem. I'm completely finished with it.

Over 800 calls in a month 3 reviews and they want to review only the bad parts as they need to remove people they made slaves do very little pay CEO makes millions ! Cap one isn’t going to wear me out

I go above and beyond I’ve always gotten exceptional but not today. Today I got a 3 and 90 percent. I am in dis belief I’m hurt this really is hard constantly overlooked and underpaid.

If I'm laid off, I have to deal with one of the worst job markets in a long while but at least there's severance to lessen the pain. If I'm not laid off but others on my team are, at least I'll still have a job but at what price? We'll be expected to pick up the extra work and I highly doubt we'll be getting any kind of extra compensation. And I'm overworked as it is. There's really no good option here.

Citi did extraordinary well in 2025 and made it's position top among global banks and J got a 42 million etc but how did it happen? They are cutting left and right, people are overworking, or not working (like me,got fed up with lowest rating). So it's the FEAR which is working, is it?

Anyone else here feel like their manager is constantly throwing work your way just to seem busy so the manager can appear like they had accomplished a lot of goals for the quarter??

On top of that, my workload has doubled because of the reductions. Everyone I've spoken to is drowning in work and leadership keeps droning on about efficiency. I'm doing work that previously had nothing to do with me. At this rate, I'll take a pay cut just to work somewhere else. I guess that's what they want.

A couple of people on my team are included in the recent Marketing RIF. They’re still sticking around until May, but I can clearly see them completely checked out. Our manager doesn’t care and just assigns all new work to me, while they get to sit back and relax for the next couple of months and still get a paycheck. One of the guys was scrolling LinkedIn jobs all day last week at the office, laptop wasn’t even open. I support them looking out for themselves, but our workload hasn’t decreased with the RIF, so I’m just getting overloaded. Anyone else experience that the RIFs are just making the remaining team members more overworked with no reward?

My team is half the size it was last year but the output expected from us is exactly the same. I'm overwhelmed every single day trying to cover the gaps. Getting a package to leave is starting to seem like a better deal than this grind.

It's painfully clear that the culture here openly rewards people who live and breathe this company. If you have family commitments or outside interests, well tough luck, you're at a clear disadvantage. The unspoken expectation is to be always on and available. If this is not true for you, consider yourself lucky.

I thought it was a good idea to keep piling on extra work to make myself layoff-proof. Instead, I'm now drowning, my work quality is significantly suffering, and I've set an unsustainable standard. I might have actually made myself a target by being stretched too thin.

Those of us who lost half our teams and weren’t absorbed into other groups are about to live a nightmare. They might reduce our workload because they know we physically can’t do it anymore, but I highly doubt it. Get ready to go from overworked to “family, what is that?”

That position sounds horrendous. Did they give you an option for the severance or did they just pick who they're keeping? This job su-ks now and adding hiring, training, doing schedule, covering call offs/short staff on top of being a rep and cleaning up backrooms. That sounds like 70 hrs a week. Those of you that took the role what you thinking????

Why did we allow it to come to this? Why are so many of us so willing to take on work from our laid off teammates to the point where we're constantly overworked but still expected to pick up more - and then we do! How is this our new normal? Nothing will change until we all say enough and just start refusing extra work. Let them deal with the consequences of their actions for once.

https://www.indiatimes.com/worth/news/amid-layoffs-twitter-employees-told-to-work-12-hours-a-day-7-days-a-week-to-meet-musks-deadlines/articleshow/127201884.html

It’s such a sh-t show! This is how we get better?!?!?!? This is how we beat the competition?!?!?!?! These a-holes torture us for a year with the layoff, surprise us with the return to office 4 days into this circus cr-p of unassigned seating!!!! This is their response to those of us who said we believe in this company to ride it out with you all and get it on track???!! The new op model is a joke and the leaders still haven’t defined roles, requiring us to work a sh-t ton of overtime where we need to concentrate. What a joke of a leadership crew we have. They ki-led this company. I’d have more respect if they are doing this on purpose, but likely they think they are making the right moves. Wtf!!!!!???!!

Make the LT surf a floor for a place to sit everyday and focus on this bs they created! Can you tell I’m pi---d

I am in my forties and have tried all the usual advice, eating better, walking outside, staying active. None of it touches the exhaustion that comes from constant overwork. At some point it stops feeling personal and starts feeling like the job is designed to drain people no matter how careful they are.

I'm so done with this cr-p. I was given three people's work with impossible deadlines. Before, I might have tried to make it work, but I'm not ki-ling myself over it anymore. From this point on, it'll be done when it's done. They can hire help or let me go, I don't care.

I've been doing a lot of work with a MX City team lately, and they are just awful. They routinely just don't do what they're supposed to, and ignore questions during meetings. Their manager just says "they're shy" when asked about things, as if that's okay.

It's annoying enough that companies like TR are gutting the middle class by offshoring everything, but on top of that the lucky few of us who have not had our jobs offshored yet are apparently expected to work overtime to make up for the offshore team's ineptitude.

Obviously this is just one experience and team, but has anyone else seen this? Not sure if I've just gotten unlucky, or this is more of a widespread issue.

Execution is offshore.
Accountability is onshore.
Answers are expected instantly — from US leaders — even when the work is “handled” elsewhere.

So if leadership asks a question and you don’t know because the team is offshore? That’s your problem. Which means US folks quietly become backup, escalation, translator, and babysitter… on top of their real jobs.

Meanwhile:
• India and Mexico are on holiday (again).
• US teams keep things moving (as usual).
• Offshore teams won’t engage unless you’re senior enough.
• And somehow there’s monthly travel to the US with no agenda, no outcomes, just vibes.

But don’t worry — it’s “saving money.”

No one seems to track:
• US leadership overhead
• Context switching and rework
• Travel costs
• Decision delays

If the US is still accountable, always on, and filling every gap…
are we actually saving money — or just calling it offshoring and hoping no one does the math?

About 70% of my team will be gone before Feb 1. Two people called it quits today. They didn't even give a full day notice. We can't function as a team of 3 people when Feb 1 gets here. This isn't just hurting the remote employees. It's crushing the in-office staff as well. I don't mind being in office but not everyone has that viewpoint. Losing 2 people today was a wake up call because my workload just increased. We know there is no such thing as overtime at PNC, (just overwork and underpaid). I know I will not get compensated for the additional workload. I'm trying to remain optimistic. The RTO mandate is pushing away loyal talented employees and pushing away people looking for a job. It's a lose-lose situation. Losing talented employees and pi----g off the employees who are trying to stick it out.

Thing is, they lay off all your closest colleagues (various departments) until they ki-l off the business, leaving the few remaining staff overworked, disengaged and depressed. Then they say we can only recruit more people when we grow the business. And so the downward spiral continues (a bit like the share price).

Does anyone feel like they have been working hard , working late night to do something, and yet not getting enough credit or praise or call out for doing it?

And the manager or team lead favoring certain people and being biased ?

This crumbles the confidence and just gives constant anxiety to prove yourself, work longer hours and constantly doubting yourself.

We're already handling too much work, and now we're to lose more people next week? Are you kidding me? What's wrong with people running this place? Can we get them to do our jobs just for a week, just so they can see how bad things already are? We can't afford for it to get even worse.

They don't seem like the type that gets offended easily, and seem to encourage some feedback. That's rare. However, I haven't been with the team long enough to be sure if it's genuine or just posturing. I don't want to ruin the relationship, but we've lost a couple of people over the past six months, and the workload is so uneven that many of us have to do overtime, even though that could have been avoided with better management.

lol, makes sense why are you all bringing back those that were let go, the chosen ones weren’t overworked, the work is over their heads

Whatever you do, don’t think for a second that “hard work” will do you any good. It rarely if ever gets noticed. Whenever management talks to you, assume that you’re being gaslit by default.

Can’t wait to be worked to the bone some more, especially since my team is barely holding together under an incompetent manager and roles that were cut and never backfilled. More overtime, exhaustion, and stress, only to be rewarded by getting laid off yourself. And yet, here I am still hoping to hold on to this job.

Sometimes it feels like we’re stuck in an endless loop, all pushed to the edge by exhaustion just to pay our bills and keep our homes. Management couldn’t care less. The way they run people into the ground gets packaged as “strong performance.” Meanwhile, we’re the ones carrying the load and paying the price for it.