Gabriel Mizrahi

I am now working well beyond 40 hours, staying late and taking home work on weekends.

My current role does not pay overtime, which is fine, but I agreed to that with the understanding that the salary reflected one role, not two roles, with entirely different scopes of work.

My manager understands that this is an issue, but he's very passive, and I can't realistically rely on him to make this right.

He's even discouraged me from speaking up about it.

What recourse, if any, do I have here?

How do I avoid being steamrolled by the company without also being branded as not a team player?

How would you approach asking that several months of working an extra role be appropriately compensated?

Signed, not trying to be snooty, but maybe looking for some extra booty for this endless double duty.

Which one should I throw back at you?

Awesome advice.

And by the way, Jordan, I feel like we should use that deprioritize concept for everything.

Like when you break up with someone, you shouldn't be like, I'm dumping you.

You should be like, I'm deprioritizing you.

Now about your current manager, you said he's passive.

You said he's discouraged you from speaking up.

That's frustrating.

But Joanna was curious about whether that's just his personality or whether this guy has tried to push on issues like this before and he's gotten nowhere.

She had an interesting observation slash theory.

She said, sometimes passivity is a learned response in certain corporate cultures.

And so this guy's response might, we're not sure, but might give you some insight into how things actually happen at your company.