Unwritten rules in the workplace: Why do you stay up late and work overtime every day to write materials?

There is a phenomenon nowadays. There are fewer and fewer people writing materials in enterprises, and it is becoming more and more difficult to find them. In fact, it is not difficult to understand the occurrence of this phenomenon. Because those who stay up late and work overtime every day to write materials can't be promoted, it's as simple as that. The reasons are as follows:

1. It is difficult to replace

Writing materials in the company is a troublesome thing, and writing company materials is two different things from daily creation. Normally, you can be poetic and picturesque, but when writing materials, you have to pay attention to a certain format. The top and bottom of the title should correspond, "increase" and "strengthen" must correspond, and it is best to have some parallelism in a certain paragraph. Therefore, ordinary people cannot do this job. If the leader thinks that the materials you wrote are okay, but there is no replacement yet, then don’t even think about leaving. If you leave, who will write the materials for the leader?

2. No performance

Many materials are used to describe the company's performance, but this performance was not created by the person who wrote the materials. No matter how much material is written, it is only a description of other people's achievements, and I am just a keyboard typist. And when I work overtime every day to catch up on this kind of material, how can I have time to create my own performance? Moreover, even if the plan is well written and you get credit, it is not your own, it is all the leadership's.

In addition to being difficult to get promoted, there are two other things that are unbearable:

1. Tired

Because the materials are written for the boss, But what the leader wants to express may not be accurate. When writing, you have to put in a lot of effort, ponder your thoughts, and cater to your taste. Even if you put all your effort into writing the materials, the leader may not be satisfied. This revision process is quite torturous, and you may not be able to catch the eye of the leader even if you revise it five or six times. Even if the writing is flawless, the leader must pick out something in order to show his level of proficiency and say, "Here, we still need to continue to adjust here."

What is the most painful thing about writing materials?

I worked overtime to revise, stayed up all night to revise, continued revising on white, black, five and two. I was revising while others were sleeping, and I was still revising when others were promoted and paid.

2. Invest too much and get too little

It is common for people who write materials to work day and night and burn the midnight oil. Don’t think that you can get more wages by working overtime, no matter how long you work overtime. It's all voluntary labor. The consequence of staying up late and working overtime is that you have work but no life. The house is just a place to go back to sleep, and you also have a receding hairline.

Writing materials is a brain-consuming and labor-intensive matter. While wasting brain cells to think of materials, you also have to have good physical strength to stay up late and work overtime. The investment and harvest are not proportional at all. No wonder now more and more people are willing to write materials. Come less and less.

What is the situation of the people who write materials in your unit? Discussions welcome.