{"id":10444,"date":"2026-02-12T08:41:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/?p=10444"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:41:33","slug":"my-60-hour-weeks-are-a-gift-to-the-company-not-a-charity-for-my-lazy-coworkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/?p=10444","title":{"rendered":"My 60-hour weeks are a gift to the company, not a charity for my lazy coworkers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">I\u2019m M., and for months, I\u2019ve been pulling 60-hour weeks. We\u2019re understaffed, so I\u2019ve been covering two entire departments, answering emails at midnight, and being the ultimate &#8220;team player.&#8221; Meanwhile, my coworker Dan spends most of his day &#8220;vibing&#8221; by the coffee machine.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">When a senior manager position opened up, I applied immediately, thinking this was finally my moment. But my boss called me in and said, \u201cWe\u2019ve decided to go with Dan. He\u2019s just a better cultural fit.\u201d I was crushed. No feedback, no &#8220;you were close&#8221;\u2014just a rejection. To make it worse, Dan actually had the nerve to tell me, \u201cBetter luck next time, maybe try working harder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">A week later, HR made a massive mistake: they accidentally CC\u2019d me on an internal email chain. My blood went cold. The emails were a highlight reel of Dan taking full credit for projects <i data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"187\">I<\/i> led\u2014tasks I stayed up late to finish while he was chatting. Management was praising him for my hard work. I didn&#8217;t go nuclear; I calmly replied to the chain with documentation and &#8220;corrections&#8221; to clarify who actually did the work. Now I\u2019m just sitting in limbo, waiting to see if they\u2019ll fix this mess or if I\u2019m just an idiot for not speaking up sooner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m M., and for months, I\u2019ve been pulling 60-hour weeks. We\u2019re understaffed, so I\u2019ve been covering two entire departments, answering emails at midnight, and being the ultimate &#8220;team player.&#8221; Meanwhile, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-co-worker","category-inspiration","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10446,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions\/10446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}