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Tell her what you just told us. Maybe your laid back attitude makes your manager think that it’s easy for you and therefore not an issue. But your attitude is an asset in so many many ways and not to be confused with exhaustion/need for recharge
I hadn’t thought of it that way. You’re right.
From my experience, let them all know all that you do, everything, all the time.
If you can handle all that work, they would keep asking for more without caring.
Please complain, be vocal about it.
If you have to do timesheets put every extra hour and minute on it.
Ask for help but I NEED HELP not if you could help me, like is a favor.
And the most important thing, let them know that could be errors because the amount of work that you are handling.
Finally look for a better job 😏. Good luck!
There is new staff supposedly coming to help but for now I have to hold down the fort. I don’t complain a lot at work. I always keep an upbeat and positive attitude but the few times I have pushed back for help, it was hit or miss since we are so short staffed. To meet these tight deadlines I will need support and if I don’t get the support, I will risk being late on one of the 3 projects because I only have 2 hands and can only do so much concurrently in 2 projects. In February I rushed through the 3 projects and messed up every single one of them and had to re-do them. So yeah I completely hear you about errors. This work is completely brand new work to my team as well so with minimal training and no one to guide me, I am so out of my comfort zone and don’t even know what I don’t know at this point. If I messed up, someone else has to tell me because this work is so new to me.
The kicker is that this work for me managing 3 projects comes to an end in May. After that I won’t even have any project to manage on my team. I suspect this is why she put 3 on me to manage the first half of the year since I won’t have a lot to do the second half of the year. And I understand if this is her reasoning. I’m not complaining again. I just simply asked for some comp time since the last 2 weeks were crazy busy for me and I worked outside of the usual 9-5 every single day and weekends. Does that mean nothing to leadership? A half day of comp can’t be given to me? It doesn’t nearly make up for the additional hours I put in over the last 2 weeks.
She responded that she’s reserving the comp time to those who worked on a different project. 🤔 I am the lead on the team and have had to pull the weight of the equivalent of 3 people to complete 3 projects in the last 2 weeks. It required me working through Easter weekend and nights last week to meet those deliverables.
She said let’s discuss tomorrow. How should I approach this when we do discuss it? It’s no big deal as I am pretty laid back and easy to work with but when she said she was reserving the comp time to those who worked on another project, it really made me feel like all my hard work was meaningless. I didn’t choose to work weekends or nights so I can use comp time. I had to do what I had to do to meet my deliverables and while everyone is held to just managing a single project I was managing 3 during this time as we are short staffed.
Forgot to add that the Monday after Easter she said that we weren’t expected to work holidays… um yeah - that’s a little too late to tell me that when I already busted my ass all weekend long while I was out of town and trying to spend my Easter weekend with my family but had to stay on my laptop to work. And despite working all weekend long, I managed to make progress on just 2 of the 3 projects I had to manage. I worked on the 3rd project all week last week after completing the first 2. All while the rest of the team managed 1 project. I know I keep mentioning that but juggling 3 simultaneously is very difficult and I’m completely burned out from it. The rest of the team doesn’t understand as they only manage 1. The one time they had to manage 2 simultaneously they complained like crazy about working long hours and weekends so imagine having to manage 3 every single month.