How do you deal with the coworker who isn’t your boss but acts like the company will collapse if every second of the day isn’t “productive”?
I have a coworker (more senior title but not my manager) who lives and breathes work, constantly wants more added to reports that nobody asked for and isn’t needed but involves way more research I have to do, insists everyone takes detailed notes in meetings when we don’t need that and most of us just want to disassociate because it could have been an email, and somehow turns every task into a bigger task because she always wants to go AbOvE and BeyOND.
Every single meeting and tasks feels like she’s trying to invent extra work so she can look dedicated and she drags is along. She always wants every minute to be productive. She is burning me out.
Meanwhile I’m sitting there on significantly less money wondering why I’m expected to care this much. She’s on like $65k more than me because she’s been here for years. I do my job well, but I do not get paid enough to treat a random Wednesday status meeting like a military operation. Maybe on her money, I would but $82k a year isn’t enough to be worked this hard. I am not getting paid Above-And-Beyond money!
She’s also super enthusiastic about everything and like, I’m not filling the room with bad energy, but I’m just here to do my job and get paid and go home. I don’t have it in me to constantly perform about being “keen” or whatever.
I’m burning out from the constant pressure to “go above and beyond” when none of it actually seems necessary. Has anyone dealt with this type of corporate overachiever/brown-noser before without losing their mind?