Being Good at Your Job Is Not an Agreement to Do Everyone Else’s
Helping your coworkers is part of the job. Becoming everyone’s permanent backup plan doesn’t have to be. A few practical ways to set limits before resentment takes over.
So Your Tips Had a Bad Night
You finish a shift, look at what you made tonight, throw up a little in your mouth, and immediately begin questioning your actions that brought you to this moment. Is business dying? Did you choose the wrong shift? Is everyone else making more than you? Should you quit, move across the country, and begin a peaceful new career selling organic beeswax candles? Probably not. Not because beeswax candles aren’t great, but because you are not a quitter! You get back…