@PinkMariner This is terrible. Nothing worse than management micro-managing their employee by calling them and asking them where they are if they're not in by a specific time. Management does notice overtime but they turn a blind eye because according to them "it's your choice" to do overtime, when generally, you don't have a choice. No one works overtime because they like it.
I have to say, I am particularly fuming today. A few days ago, I posted about how some of our responsibilities were transferred to an analytics team and some analyst in that team did not deliver the work in accordance with expectations (extremely late and erroneous) thus leaving to the senior stakeholder in a tight position as their work depended on the work of the analyst. The senior stakeholder kept asking the analyst for clarification and I had kindly offered the analyst to show her how to provide the information requested. However, I was on training and advised the analyst of this, so my capacity was very limited. The analyst refused and was basically looking for me to respond to the senior stakeholder even though the analyst is the one who did the work. Despite my better judgment, I agreed and provided the senior stakeholder with the information. From my understanding, he subsequently kept chasing the analyst because he needed further clarification on other points in her analysis and the analyst kept chasing me during my training telling me this is not normal that he's chasing her because her analysis was clear (if it was that clear, he wouldn't have been chasing). He even sent her an example of what I did in the past so she could have an idea of what was required.
Anyway, he had enough of her and reached out to me directly saying that her work was poor and he'd like me to step in. He forwarded me her work - the work was so poor, it needed complete revamping as it was erroneous and incomplete. Despite the fact I was on training all week, I agreed to re-do the work because he otherwise wouldn't be able to move forward with his piece before today's deadline. This meant I had to sacrifice my study time for my training and add another 5 hours of overtime that night to provide an analysis that was no longer my job in the first place. Fast forward, I delivered the work at 10pm on the same day he reached out to me and the following day, I realize the analyst took off on annual leave and wouldn't be back before next Monday.
Now, it makes complete sense. So whilst I was drowning between a week-long training and supporting my projects during my breaks, she robbed me of an opportunity to study and to log off on time because she couldn't be bothered to respond as she knew she was going on holidays and wanted to get rid off the senior stakeholder. It may have worked this time around, but I will be escalating this to my own manager once he comes back from annual leave. I had a clear OOO stating I was on training and she kept pestering me and reiterating the same poor information to the stakeholder because she knew I'd step in. This is the first and last time. I'm not one to throw colleagues under the bus, but me being robbed of an opportunity to study for a training I was asked to added on top of plugging in 5 hours of unpaid overtime to help a stakeholder meet a deadline because she delivered her erroneous work one month late (!!), nope, I can't let this slide otherwise, next cycle, it will be the same story. She was hired to perform these analyses, it's her full-time job, she needs to deliver or else.
The worst part of it all is that this analyst is one level above me and therefore paid more money.
(For anyone thinking their place of work is the worst - I think this company is in the top tier for sure)
I am IT literate and quite "with it", I was just muttering something to myself FGS.