You need an assistant, or your company needs to add another person. And you are making a mistake doing all that work without complaint. All you are doing is inviting a continuation of the status quo, 'cause you are demonstrating that you can do it. Bad move. Look for your work load to increase for that reason.
((((Frank)))) I AM the assistant! LOL! Seriously...there are three of us women managing 7 sales directors. My three are better than the other girls two a piece - I've got the good ones!!! But the mismanagement has been addressed. They understand it and they plan on taking care of it come December. We're one of those companies that's growing faster than we can take it. I guess that's a good problem to have. Unfortunately, it's us office help that gets hit the hardest in those type of situations. We can't get headcount approved until December thus the heavy workload. Also, we are physically out of room in our office. If we DID add someone, they'd have to sit in the file room. (LOL! Remember "Office Space"?)
But you'll be proud to know that when my workload increased by 50% last month, I very boldly asked for a 30% payraise. Which they laughed at at first, but then got serious when I told them that they STILL haven't made me permanent in 90 days which is what was promised initially. They knew I could get a similar job somewhere else with bennies. So they gave me a full 30% payraise AND made it retroactive for the week! But even with the payraise I have more responsibility than one person can handle.
So I went into one of my directors today and shared my thoughts. (Thanks for the advice Arrowstar!) Instead of sitting there crying like I wanted to, I shared my thoughts very seriously and in a questioning manner. Like I was looking for their advice on how to handle things. My boss was great. He understands that I'm under enormous stress right now and said "If it doesn't get done, it doesn't get done. Go home. Enjoy your husband and your Life. Don't sacrifice that for a job. Any job." He seemed very understanding.
Make some mistakes in your work, obvious ones.
Been there done that. But not intentionally. I think today I got their attention by just sharing. We'll see.
In the meantime, I TRULY appreciate your input. Hopefully, things will get turned around here soon. I do try to look at the bright side. Last year this time I didn't have a job. And stressing about money is probably worse than stressing about this stuff.
((((((((hugs to everyone))))))))))
Andi
