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I’m sorry, mama. If this is what your team expects of you, it’s time to look for a new job.
I understand! I am so drained after a full day of work, making dinner, playing with my toddlers, doing the bathtime routine, getting them to sleep, washing dinner dishes and lunchboxes, and packing their lunches for the next day that I don’t even have time to do anything else.
Instead of ganging up on you, they should be questioning why THEY essentially have regular, mandatory OT. Why aren’t they questioning their own work/life balance instead of pointing the finger at you?
If there’s a specific industry you’re in or would like to be in, let us know here! We help you find something that will let you take care of your family without making you feel guilty 🧡
Thank you for your kind comments. I needed to hear this from another mama. I finally quit and will be serving 2 months notice. I definitely need to find something new now. an environment which knows boundaries 😢
Your value is not measured by them. It’s by being a good momma - which you clearly are. Be amongst people who value you for being you - every version of you!! Get out of there and don’t give the haters a second thought. X
This 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
I’m so sorry. I have been there myself. This is the industry. It’s a systemic problem. The OT, the expectation to put your life outside of work aside to make work the priority. It’s absolute BS, mentally and physically harmful, damaging to marriages and families, and unnecessary.
What doesn’t get done today SHOULD be picked up again tomorrow. There’s ALWAYS tomorrow. In my experience, deadlines are artificial in most cases. We are in a creative industry that demands excellence but doesn’t honor the human process required to deliver that excellence. Time to explain that to clients, and make that a new standard in the way we work. Product in other industries get delayed all the time. And client-side delays are somehow worked around to our detriment (see? artificial deadlines).
Unless it’s an event the creative team’s working toward, “tomorrow’s another day” should be the mantra. When deadlines are crazy-making and disruptive, it’s time to speak up. We are people, not machines. When hard pressed we somehow deliver, but at huge personal costs. Just because “this is how it’s done” doesn’t mean it can’t be improved upon. And when the whole industry starts to say, “hold on client, we’ll need more time” the expectation client-side will not be that we in advertising destroy our mental and physical health for the sake of the work. It will no longer be the client saying “well, I’ll take this work to another agency who can deliver” because we’ll all be on the same page, same standard—“tomorrow is another day”. How amazingly beneficial would that be?
I hope some high-level creative industry professionals in bigger organizations with some influence read this, take it in, and start chipping away at this industry-wide problem. Y’all know it’s the right thing to do.
thank you. you said it perfectly. needed this. the whole industry need to read this ❤️
Been there. I’m so sorry you’re going through this as well.
When I found out my team mates were ranting about their “guilt” of having me stay OT (I’m a single mom,) well, I bounced out of that agency.
Is not working OT in this industry an option?! 😫😫😫 I work overtime at least 3-4 nights a week. I’m exhausted but feel like that’s what the job requires to get everything done across so many projects and crazy timelines. So i log back on after my baby goes to bed and work 9-11. This industry is exhausting.