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Originally Posted by fintstone
Where I work, about 8 years a go a person left. They temporarily gave me their work until they could replace them. Two months later, another left and I was the only one with the background to do their work as well...so I filled in. When, after months later, they hired two people (neither qualified to do either job), they left the duties with me and found new things for them to do that they could handle. Meanwhile, the responsibilities have increased for each over the next 7 years (and in fact, the original job they hired me to do has taken off and doubled in work). Last year, my immediate supervisor retired and another employee left. They gave me the supervisor's job but no increase in pay...telling me they would give two new employees. I have managed to triage and do all of this for now (improving greatly on what my supervisor had achieved with the group with many more people). Now they tell me the budget is busted and they cannot replace any of them. Just wait till I retire in Dec...They don't believe I really am going to.
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At my old job that I had for 27 years I was the one person that could do any task there. I had to repair all the equipment, and do the plumbing and light electrical work. When the computers and digital photography first started I got involved and that became my primary function. I could be juggling three computer graphic projects on the pitiful slow computers of the era, and one of the staff from the back would walk in and say the processor is broken. I would go get filthy fixing whatver issue it was and expect some assistance from the folks that needed that processor to do their job. No one was there, all of them were in the kitchen laughing and chatting.
That was the end of it for me. I told the owner I was done fixing the equipment and plumbing as I had too much to do in the computer department. He would actually hire contractor plumbers of electricians at full price to do what I used to do for free.
I still had to teach each new employee how to do their job.