Questions tagged [workload]
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Heavy Workload and Many Hats, but No Communication and No Clear Expectations? [closed]
Like many of you, I am experiencing a heavy workload and shoulder many responsibilities beyond my role, including those of several levels above my normal duties. That is understandable and I believe, ...
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How to avoid having a higher total effort after delegating tasks to the team
In theory, the idea behind having a team of people to do something is that I can delegate some tasks to the team rather than doing everything myself.
I work in software development and I regularly ...
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How do I properly address and handle work burnout?
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I've been working for my current company for a few years as a developer and IT Support\Specialist which includes a lot of calls, help-desk duties along the developer part of the job. ...
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How can I handle too many expectations at a job I recently joined?
I joined a new job two weeks ago where I was hired after an interview based on generic JavaScript programming knowledge with my past work experience close to two years. For the initial 12 days, I was ...
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Boss keeps restricting my work
TL;DR bold text is the important bits.
I work at a small company (<20 people) and I've noticed what appears to be a gradual worsening of favor with my boss. I do programming work primarily now but ...
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Disconnect between goals and daily tasks...Is it me, or the industry?
During my performance reviews at the three companies I have worked for during my 15+ year career in information security, I have seen a consistent and concerning disconnect between the annual goals/...
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What to do about being loaded with much more work than colleagues?
I work as a public school teacher. Starting this year, the principal started assigning staff to various committees. Each are responsible for different tasks, such as writing newsletters, organizing ...
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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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Employment Law - Requirements for cover during leave
I have had to cover my leave for 6 years now. I am a NHS Medical Secretary and having had a conversation with my manager that I will need cover and giving written instructions/information relating to ...
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Internship with no given tasks
I'm an intern at a small tech company, and in the last few days I've been given no tasks. I've been doing research / studying documents about the language we use to code.
However, when I ask for a ...
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Boss taking forever to check my work
My boss said he wanted to look at my code before I can test it on the system for our company. 3 weeks ago he said he will look over the weekend. Last week I asked him again and he said he will look at ...
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Would it look bad if I asked to be removed from a project?
So, I started a new job about 4 months ago. I could start an entire thread about the challenges that go with a complete lack of organization (which is part of the issue here), but I'll stick to the ...
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How to stop being exploited by the employer and ensure getting my payment
I have been working online.
I am being exploited by being sent tasks that require a lot of time, maybe the whole day.
In addition, I don’t receive enough compensation for my work, for example we agree ...
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How can I ask my team lead not to assign me large amounts of work that falls outside my job description?
I'm a software developer on a team of five people. This team has a lead, a web developer, a back-end developer, and two mobile developers. This team structure is relatively new, and we are currently ...
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Handed notice in - suddenly not doing anything right
I recently handed my notice in at my current employer. My company notice period in my contract is 3 months.
I have a fair bit of work to do before I leave, which is alright, and this workload goes ...
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