As a part time
employee, sometimes I work on weekends or holidays as well I take all my
regular scheduled shifts.
Once on a weekend, I took
an on-call shift, all I did was exactly same as my normal daily duty, even
though I was highly praised and appreciated on the next day while I saw my
boss.
Since that time,
whenever I worked an overtime shift, my boss kept saying appreciations to me. I
felt that my work was overly evaluated, the fact is that I earned more respect
while I take more extra shifts.
To take advantage of
full-time employee』s benefit, the absence of full time coworkers appeared more often
on holidays and weekends, therefore I arranged my schedule accordingly, and
tried to make myself available during these periods.
With the more on-call
shifts I took, the more money I could make, it seemed that the value of my
overtime work was lesser in my boss』 view. By judging my boss』 plain tone or
stoic expression, I could feel it.
Another sunny Sunday,
I was called to refill a shift blank, and worked with Steven who is a new
employee, also taking on-call duty. Both of us worked independently in
different job positions.
During lunch break
time, we encountered each other in the lunch room and had lunch same time.
「Steven, Can you please
come and pick up your lunch in the kitchen?」 main chef came to our lunch room.
Followed the chef, minutes
later, Steven came back with a fully packed plate wrapped by shiningly foil,
「Don』t you like the
food from our kitchen?」 Steven asked me.
「Not really, sometimes.」
I replied
「This is a really
kind offer to my on-call shift.」
I asked: 「Is that
free?」
「On our boss』 treat」
Steven humbly answered and smiled to me
I was perplexed.
「Why only for Steven?」
I thought: 「Did I devalue
my work by taking too much overtime shifts?」