You all know what I’m talking about.

Fuck! What do we do?

Call Dr. Dumbass, he always bails us out in a pinch.

*sigh* Kick me. Hard.

Job security is great! Figure out when you think shit is about to hit the fan again and go on a vacation the day before. When you come back from your break and sort it all out for them is the best time to ask for a raise.

Welcome to my world.
And in a corporate environment.
So close to retirement....

It get to the point you just want to say, "Your emergency does not make it mine."

Yep. And this is universal in workplaces, across industries.

My favorite is when they punish the best and most knowledgeable guys by loading them down with all the work and responsibilities because they know we'll do a good job. Meanwhile, they reward the dumbasses by not making them do anything, because they can't be trusted to do a good job. But they're going to pay the slugs who don't do anything just as much as the rockstars who do it all, of course.

That is at least 50% of my job

Putting out fires and bailing people’s asses out who don’t know what the hell they’re doing.

That’s my entire group, my lead was approached a few months ago by this one guy in another part of the country, begging him for help with writing some sort of procedure. My lead wrote the entire thing and sent it to him. Then I told him “watch he’s going to put his name on it And take full credit for it and you aren’t going to get jack shit in recognition”.

Well, as you can imagine that happened exactly as I predicted; the guy took full credit, put his name on the procedure that WE wrote for him, and then was given an award for “fixing” the problem!

Did that as a gov't contractor for 21+ years. It seemed I was always the one "stuck" with some assignments, many of which should have been done by others. The sad irony was that I often applied common sense, rather than political correctness, which often resulted in lots of "wailing and gnashing of teeth" form others. My response was to not give so much to me, but I guess they preferred to "bitch and moan" after the fact than to do it themselves.

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But they're going to pay the slugs who don't do anything just as much as the rockstars who do it all, of course.

Hey, that's called "Equity"!

If you are the guy everyone depends on you should consider running your own business. It worked for me.

At my work it's "Hey John can you".
I wear a ballcap that says "It's what I do I fix things and know stuff"
I'm a heavy Equipment mechanic and have been wrenching for 58 years.
I'll take on any project, because the others are not able to, or they are scared.
It's normal for me, but there are guys who make the same and just can't/won't take the work on.
There is going to be a rude awakening when I retire!

Nobody else in my workplace has my all-around knowledge or tools. (If it's true, it's not bragging.) And I'm on vacation this week, as well as retiring next year.

Fellow smoke jumper checking in. Just about every job I ever had eventually I become the one everybody goes to when there's an obstacle to overcome.

In fact just yesterday I muttered the words "I really need to not be the guy that does all the things."

Yep. Got a call today at 10:30am from the second in command.

Who knows I work nights because he assigned me to nights.

It took me four hours to tell my department head what duties I performed for the department a week before I retired. I'm told he had to split my work among 7 of my co-workers. Bitch of it is, the performance system is weighted towards error. You do 7 guys work, you stand a much greater chance of making a mistake, which will be punished while the dumb asses get good reviews. I had a choice to retire a 50 or 57 1/2. I didn't even run the numbers, I ran like hell the minute I could. On the way out the door, I stopped at HR for my retiree ID card. The HR employee didn't know how to generate it on the computer, so she stood watch at the door while I generated it on the computer and printed it out. A month later they called and wanted to know if I wanted to do volunteer work back there again.

95% of the time it sucks, but it's freakin' awesome when you get the right leader. I've been in the freakin' awesome position the last 1.5 years and it's a breath of fresh air.

In the weeks before I retired, I told a couple of folks that when my employer came calling and asking me for help, that I'd be happy to - once they agreed to pay me a non-refundable retainer in advance and paid me at an hourly rate that was double my current rate.

They must have thought I was joking because they did call. Then they found out I wasn't joking; that was the last time they called.

My people knew better than to ask me because my canned response was " Piss poor planning on your part does not constitute a emergency on my part.. But once they asked again I said okay but non-refundable tripple time pay.. They only asked 1 time and I collected the pay. ............................... drill sgt.

Everyone thinks they are indispensable. Are you?

In a capitalist society, you must assert your worth and also deliver. They can find someone else, you can find another job.

It is YOUR fault your job doesn't pay.

Th best employer that I ever had gave me six raises and four bonuses in four years , because I answered all of his appliance delivery questions.

Part of the credit goes to the previous delivery guy he had, he made me look like a delivery hero.

After six years the precedent regarding expectations had been set , but I started experiancing your burdansome and sometimes stressful anxiety.

An older man once told me, be careful, they will ride a good horse to death!

Not unlike being union and doing a good job. You might make the other "brothers" look bad and risk getting your car keyed or worse.