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People will take advantage if they feel they can. I do this as well in an attempt to help out others on my team and don’t always get the same in return. Take a day or two off and start setting boundaries slowly. Even if it takes lying...like saying you have errands or family business to handle at 6pm and will be offline for the rest of the night. People will grow accustomed to your availability. I work with so many people who are predictability writing emails at 1am, and others who log off at 6pm and don’t respond until the next morning. They’ve created or haven’t created those boundaries for themselves.
I’ll deff try setting better boundaries going forward!
Yes, same thing here. Honestly sounds like you need to take at least a day off. It helped me to take a sick day and unplug for a long weekend. I’m starting to feel like I can’t keep working 80 hour weeks but that helped me from quitting.
If it’s the work that’s killing you then leave the biz, if it’s the hours leave the job
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My reply was deliberately blunt and it comes from personal experiences. You must look out for yourself. Burnout is not a badge of honour it’s a serious illness. Get a medical certificate for leave, and document the reason. With this in hand ask HR for input on how to remedy the situation, but never ask to gave your role changed. That just gives management the opening to remove you. If you don’t get satisfaction, seek counseling from an employment lawyer. They will advise on how to ensure the agency fulfills their duty of care. Nobody has right to bully or force an unreasonable workload. Agencies have a dearth of empathy for staff, no time for it. This is why one needs to outside support.
I say quit. One friend took a job for "more manageable hours" and was instantly set up in power struggles and severely understaffed. 6 weeks later she walked away. Trust your skills will be valued elsewhere
You sound like you’re in meltdown mode and what you should do is call in sick preferably on a Monday or Friday so you have 3 days to rest. Take a few sick days. Don’t squander them by looking at emails. Sleep, eat, take a walk. Your boss may not value you much if they don’t take action to help, but you don’t value yourself much either if you treat yourself this way. Your colleagues have discovered that there’s actually no one holding a gun to their head forcing them to work 18 hour days. If it didn’t get done, it will have to wait. No one believes that you need insane hours like a college kid in finals, instead of feeding yourself, getting some exercise and the sleep you need in order to do the job in the first place. Companies are just to cheap to hire someone additional until they just have to. For that to happen, often the job has to suffer. When my team just couldn’t produce 10 jobs at once, we did what we could and eventually freelancers were called in.
You should ask for help if it’s too much. If your manager won’t listen then bring it up in a team situation. Say you need help, say you’ve got too much on your plate. Odds are you are surrounded by some decent human beings. This is the point of being part of a team, right? This is an ebb and flow business. So we gotta help each other out.
Hope things will get better. Rooting for you 😃
Yes this has happened to me before - I was so burnt out from being overworked and emotionally not well. I took a 2-month leave of absence and they granted it (paid and unpaid leave combined). Now that sounds extreme but I believe that’s what I truly needed at the time. However, know it may not make the problem go away - so ultimately you may still decide to leave. The much-needed disconnect and rest will help you make decisions with more clarity. In my case, I went back and though I went on another account, the toxic behaviors were bad in other ways so I still had to leave. Wish you the best.
Yes leaves are not always possible without a medical reason. It also depends on company policy. Surprisingly there was none at that point (though it’s a big one, under WPP) so I negotiated the terms. It helped I was already there for 4+ years. I did have to agree that I would stay for a certain amount of time after I come back or else I would have to “pay”.
I feel the same but need my insurance in order to afford therapy. Fun cycle.
I understand, are you in NYC by chance?
Having worked at one of the offices before, I feel you OP. If you do decide to leave, put in your two weeks, but don’t feel bad about leaving. The team I worked with was run horribly and abusively. Take a few days off, take care of yourself, but know that there are other jobs out there and places are starting to hire again.
I can’t even imagine how toxic of a place Havas is during a time like this. leave
Maybe try taking a break before deciding?