Questions tagged [overworked]
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Overworked as Part-Time Contractor; Considering Exiting Before Starting Full-Time
I have been brought on a team as a remote part-time contractor. Everyone is under high stress. I had a good working relationship with people on the team before, so I signed a full-time offer on the ...
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How can I improve an understaffing issue when production manager does not inform management?
I work in the engineering department of a Canadian manufacturing SME. My responsibilities mostly consist of designing products and production support (answering questions, solving issues, etc.). I ...
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How do I let my manager know that I am overwhelmed since a co-worker has been out due to family emergency?
I work in the US. I share some duties with a woman, Jane, who has been out the past few days due to her son having major surgery. Since she has been out, I have been doing all the work of the duties ...
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How should Directors deal with an overbearing branch Manager?
Talking about a branch manager who gets great pipeline and conversions, the numbers all look right, but employee turnover is very high.
His high standard for his staff, requiring high work ethic and ...
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Feeling burnt out and like I need to leave but feeling guilty as there's no one to replace me
I've worked at my current place of employment for three years now and have progressed from mid level to 'lead' developer. It's primarily a PHP/Laravel based position.
The reason I say 'Lead' developer ...
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Coworker pushing himself too much (Telework context)
Some context: My coworker and I are foreigners working in Japan as IT developers.
Our team works from home 2-3 days a week.
This coworker is working fully from home (too far from workspace).
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As ...
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Am I being set up for failure? Filling the gap
I started working in a FAANG company about 7 months ago as a software engineer II, and my team of 5 (including the manager who is also a tech lead) is onboarding a feature that requires engaging with ...
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Does a 7 day workweek hurt productivity?
There are many articles claiming that a shorter workweek (4 days) has no productivity loss vs a 5 day work week or it's a net positive for the company.
However, in the sector that I work, it's more ...
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How does a salaried worker stop overtime without seeming unproductive in a WFH environment?
Summary: I am salaried employee regularly working 15 extra hours (over 40hr/week of my contract) every week without overtime pay. I work from home (WFH). I want to decrease amount of unpaid overtime ...
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How to gain business acumen while in a business analyst role?
Sorry for the long post.
I'm working in an e-commerce firm. I have 4 years of experience working with SQL, Python and a handful of BI Tools that I have grown very comfortable working with. I feel that ...
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How to refuse constant outside-office-hours meetings politely? [closed]
We are always required to attend meetings outside office hours without any compensation.
Usually, our employers are unwilling to convene meetings during office hours because it would reduce our ...
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Hired as developer, now responsibilities are getting changed. What needs to be done to avoid over load of work [duplicate]
After 6 months of unpaid internship I got hired in the same institution ( private college) I worked in R&D department and started to work on their website (which almost didn't existed). after some ...
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Should I tell my manager that I want quit in 2-4 months? Or should I keep my plans to myself? [duplicate]
I just wonder if I should tell my manager that I want to quit in a few months from now or not.
Below I am going to provide you with some context and description of my current situation.
Basically I am ...
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How do you handle being asked to work on too many things?
Currently I work at a company that used to have a sizeable number of developers. Different teams were responsible for their own specific domains. There was a database team, a systems team, networking, ...
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Studies on overworked workers
I've found that there comes a point at which an employee becomes so saturated with work that spending additional effort to meet deliverables actually yields poorer quality results across the board. ...
