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Document, document, document. And by that I mean, do everything in writing — and then screenshot what you’ve said so you have it later. If nothing else, it’s an accurate encapsulation of a culture you’ll never go back to. But it may also become the foundation for you to build a case for more support. Or it may allow you to open the door and say that objectively, this is too much.
Leverage AI where you can. It can’t get you in two places at once, but can it spit out a schedule for you to accomplish tasks inside, and take away some of the headspace that comes with crafting emails, building presentations, etc? I use it that way all the time, as an expediter.
Make your home a safe place. Your nervous system is probably fried, and you need signals that your body can decompress. I have a reminder on my phone at the end of the day to a.) stop working (I can come back to it in the evening if needed) b.) move my body a little c.) ask myself, what’s one thing that went well and one thing I’m leaving behind?
And, you know this one, but find another job. You can’t change a broken system when it’s thriving on you.
Good luck. I’m in a similar spot and this is how I’m surviving.
Any other tips on how to professionally set boundaries without looking less committed. This place is so dysfunctional that the expectation is that the same person sets strategy and is also accountable for all operational work.
I am on the other side of a similar situation - I set boundaries and pushed back on chronic overwork that was negatively affecting my health and was terminated.
In hindsight, I realize my new manager had zero expertise in my area of work so couldn’t comprehend everything I was doing or what it actually took to deliver the work (nor did he care or want to learn). He also didn’t have the context to appreciate the quality of my work. I was going to quit anyway because I wasn’t in a situation where I was working with people who shared my values (they were corporate coasters and I actually like working and wanted to do quality work), but the one thing I wish I’d recognized and done better is dedicate more time each week to self promotion: send my new manager regular recaps of my work, not just in formal reviews, send launch announcements more frequently (don’t wait for a big launch), and stop doing a lot of the work I was doing (the extras I was doing to produce quality work were lost on these bozos).
TL,DR: I wish I did less work and focused more on showmanship/self-promotion. In a toxic environment it’s all they care about. And then only play that game long enough to find a new job with more likeminded people even if it pays less.
I’m not the “corporate coasters” type, so coasting long-term would have made me miserable. Short-run, it could have saved my health and kept me employed while I found something else - I realized it too late.
Worst is, everything who isn’t in my position has it easy as they have little accountability. I know many people who don’t even login to work for days but the culture is such that who they know matters more than what they do
start knowing the right ppl