I am a Bridge Construction Supervisor.   my area that I cover is Napa county.  any retaining wall, bridge that needs to be worked on, replaced, or newly built, my team covers the engineering.  the Marin County boss is retiring.  Management feels there is no time to hire a replacement, so they assigned me Marin as well.   I squirmed and backpedaled like a pro, but I couldn't wiggle my way out.  I have to do this until April, so they say.  planning meetings conflict, and I was up front.  my own area meetings get priority, to maintain the working relationships (trust) I have developed.  I overlayed both calendars, and will miss half of the meetings.  this is stupid.  and I told everyone this...

 

oh well.  I'll do my best, but I won't kill myself.  I won't even hurt myself.  the commute alone to both areas is darn near impossible alone.  

 

stupid. 

Man, that stinks! 

 

Don't do too good of a job handling both roles...they may see this as an opportunity to eliminate the Marin County position, and give it all to you permanently. 

 

I've seen that in my workplace...

 

 

I hope you're being compensated accordingly 

32 minutes ago, slonezp said:

I hope you're being compensated accordingly 

What he said!

no additional $$.  not happy about any of it.  

So your having to do more work and manage more projects but they aren't paying you more? Sounds about right. What a joke.

Been there done that. When our company was bought out almost two years ago I was given the task of managing my crew which at times were upwards of 21 techs, dispatching the work, damage investigations, difficult locates, multiple meetings, safety presentations with our customer, and 10% audits of all work the techs did. I told them I couldn’t do it all and that I needed help. I didn’t get it and left in April. There are now three people doing everything I was doing. 
 

No extra compensation for me either. I agree with others, don’t kill your self to try and get everything done otherwise you’ll be stuck with the job. Obviously you don’t want to half a$$ it either, but from my experience, if you are able to handle it they’ll totally take advantage of it. I’ve seen it plenty of times over the years.

Sounds like work overload in it's finest form 😳.

Hope your not one of those that stresses easily.

You can only do what you can do.   Even IF they increased your pay you can't be in 2 places at once. 

 

Don't work yourself to death.   

Sounds like a job! 

I already told management that I fully expect to miss half of my responsibilities unless they clone me.  

Yeah we were going to hire someone else and give me a raise, instead we did nothing haha. Same stuff different day 

On 10/24/2023 at 12:21 PM, slonezp said:

I hope you're being compensated accordingly 

 

Nobody in the history of "temporary" additional work duties has ever been compensated at a rate that makes the extra *** worth it. 

^amen, and amen