When you’re doing the work of 3 employees, shouldn’t you get 3x the PTO?

An employee, who shared their woes on the antiwork subreddit, found themselves in a sticky situation. They were good at their job, and yet they were being punished. Sometimes, if you’re too good at your job and you outpace your peers, you end up with way more than you signed up for. It’s sort of a backwards incentive. If you constantly do the bare minimum, then that’s what your employers will expect from you. If you’re going above and beyond from day one, you might just wind up with more on your plate. It’s an unfortunate thing that happens constantly, and can lead to burnout. The best managers know how to mitigate these circumstances and reward good workers with perks other than more work. But that’s not what happened here. What happened here was a classic case of employee burnout.