Feel underappreciated at work

Welp. I try my best. I mean that honestly. I work hard to improve things that I touch, and try to create an environment of excellence by challenging norms like "that's how we always do it" when there's obviously opportunity to better align efforts to company values (and to be frank my own work ethic values)...

I see that my coworkers get public praise for things that seem like just doing their job normally, and when I go above and beyond the only people that seem to notice is the client (who is VERY happy with me) and our service manager (who's primary goal is to make sure the client is receiving high quality services from our teams). ...

I got my yearly performance review (although I wouldn't call it a review, I've never had a manager since I can remember ever actually take any time to properly review me or give me any meaningful feedback on the bulk of the efforts I put into my job)... I ended up with a 0.12% (zero point one two) raise, and was categorized as an average employee. My body hurts to process it all...Being unappreciated at work truly, sucks. To top it off, I have my co workers making fun of me ... like kicking me when I'm down.

After decades of work, I feel like I wasted a significant amount of time. When I talk to people from different departments they say they could use someone like me and I don't even work in those areas of business, ;like jus today someone from the accounting dept, and another person from critical operations both told me that they need someone like me. Someone that cares about the things that can improve operations and sincerely cares enough to make the changes...

I have made excellent impressions on various parts of the business, even so far as to be now slotted to work with the highest level of management in the company.. but the work I'm doing I feel like a monkey in a suit, dancing for the benefit of my team but my team doesn't show much appreciation.

To quote Michael Scott: Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked, but it's not like this compulsive need to be liked, like my need to be praised. I leave work after hard days feeling like I'm wasting my life for nothing..

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anonymous Work April 24, 2024 at 9:31 pm 0 0