After our team was hit in January, everything landed on the rest of us. Same deadlines, same expectations, but with half the people. I'm exhausted and every week it gets harder to keep up. When I say something to my manager, I get told to prioritize. Prioritize what? Everything is urgent.
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You the only ones. Most teams are underfunded and short staffed. All so the C-level execs can get a few more million bonus from our blood, sweat and exhaustion.
We are being asked to increase efficiencies through copilot. Learn it. That’s your answer.
Team had been hit multiple times in the past several years. Each time we fall further and further behind with more and more issues being escalated. Everything is a priority abs the work load hasn't decreased. Leaders agree to take on even more work only to have several more positions eliminated last week. I do my best to level set but it's just ignored. Here is the earliest I can look into x project due to this other high priority item and that's only if I cancel PTO and if the business is ok not having data for a week. 4 days later I'm told its being escalated because I haven't touched it.
That's all before we even consider the extra layers of beaurecratic non-sense hoops we have to jump through.
Why is it that these efficiency cuts just make things every more inefficient.
@av said: "So what? Are people seriously here commiserating with you over having to, god forbid, work a normal 8 hr day (subtracting time for mandatory breaks, etc)?
Corn ball kweers here upset that they have to actually work during their 8 hour period instead of hang out and get paid."
10 bucks says this person sits in meetings they aren't even needed in for most of their work day and calls it "productivity". In my experience, people with attitudes like this are almost always the least productive.
@av that was actually the bank culture these people are whining about missing. The bank was severely overstaffed, hiring at will and never letting people go. Now, they are tightening it up and people actually have to work now.
@a6 I’m guessing you live alone with no friends and work is your life.
@av I don’t think OP is referring to an 8 hour workday. For my team, we are working 9/10 hour days right now and still not keeping up. They realign and let people go but want everyone else to do that person’s job also. Someone leaves and they don’t replace them. However, they do continue to hire more in India without giving them more work. We train them to help with things but they can’t handle it and we have to take back a task. What’s the point if they’re not actually helping equally?!
Contact the regulators yourself.
Why wait?
Why just sit there passively hoping someone else blows the whistle, while you sit there watching it all burn; especially if what you know about is against regulations, laws, and that there's illegalities happening re: consent orders/risk/compliance?
You actually have a professional duty to blow the whistle on that sh!t, and a moral obligation to report it.
DO IT!
So what? Are people seriously here commiserating with you over having to, god forbid, work a normal 8 hr day (subtracting time for mandatory breaks, etc)?
Corn ball kweers here upset that they have to actually work during their 8 hour period instead of hang out and get paid.
Just Charlie's efficiencies in action. Your manager will be reward for your pain and suffering. God Bless us all.
Same in our group. In the last two years 2/3 of our staff has been let go. We're heads down working all the time, extra hours. People send time consuming problems to the next person in the pipeline. Now they're looking for mistakes to let us go as "does not meet", without severance. My immediate boss has told us how we need to CYA everything.
This is nothing new so why are you so outraged.
Odd as it may sound, consider yourself lucky. Plenty of people sitting around all day on their phones with nothing to do and they'll be out of a job soon.
What brand of boot polish tastes best and how do you keep from choking on the laces during a particularly intense session?
I'm actually glad I hope this sh-t show of a company has the regulators come back in and review all the work done to clear the consent orders and now see all those risk teams were let go.
What happens if you miss deadlines?
@OP
Do you want cheese with your whine?
Boo frikin hoo.
Do your job.
Prioritize what you can get done in the hours you want to work that day. Anything else can be on the prioritization list for another work day.
Some companies have faced this exact issue before and responded by cutting middle‑management roles and hiring more technical staff to keep projects moving.