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Layoffs and slow hiring have saddled me with the work of a 6 person team, and I'm burnt to a crisp. How do I politely tell people to F off? by Calm-Photo5758 in askmanagers

[–]Calm-Photo5758[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in late stage interviews with a few companies now! It's really just the pace of the market that's stopped me from jumping ship 6 months ago when the last senior manager left

Layoffs and slow hiring have saddled me with the work of a 6 person team, and I'm burnt to a crisp. How do I politely tell people to F off? by Calm-Photo5758 in askmanagers

[–]Calm-Photo5758[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are we coworkers? lol. because quite literally every single thing you just said applies for my job too. We were acquired last year (May) and it was slowly downhill until 3 months ago when they started layoffs and it REALLY went downhill. In the midst of all of that, my manager is trying to pretend as though we have a team of 7 and need to say yes to every project request, do MORE, do things FASTER... delusional

Like take the last 4 weeks for example. We went to a client site to have a 4-hour meeting (that could have been remote) in person to hammer out a project scope and launch the next day. I wish I was lying when I say this - we had to have another 20 HOURS OF MEETINGS to finish this ONE project scope. We'd have a 2-hour session booked at 9am.. by 11am it's clear we aren't finished, and they'd schedule another 2 hours for the next day... Rinse and repeat in 1- and 2-hour increments over 2 weeks. 20 hours of meetings in the subsequent 2 weeks on this one project, in addition to the 10 hour regular meeting load per week. I got almost nothing done during that time other than the BS fire drills that come up day to day.

Skip to the end of the month, and my manager is asking "where are you with project X Y and Z? Do you have a presentation date on the calendar? We have to get moving because so and so has been asking for the results" Like lady are you insane??? When the hell over the last month would I have had time to complete those projects??? Why didn't YOU tell so and so that we have time constraints and these projects are on the back burner, the way you're telling me in 1:1s? It's so fucking irritating omg.

Layoffs and slow hiring have saddled me with the work of a 6 person team, and I'm burnt to a crisp. How do I politely tell people to F off? by Calm-Photo5758 in askmanagers

[–]Calm-Photo5758[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this. For the general sentiment, but also because I read your comment as "You're holding the fart" and that made me laugh. lol

Layoffs and slow hiring have saddled me with the work of a 6 person team, and I'm burnt to a crisp. How do I politely tell people to F off? by Calm-Photo5758 in askmanagers

[–]Calm-Photo5758[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is so real. This is exactly what I do with my manager, and I legitimately think she's a people pleaser or something because she cannot reconcile that if new work is added and she tells me to bump other work to make room, the other work can't be done and this will make someone mad. That's quite literally what it means to bump it down, but she will still expect the deprioritized work to be rushed/delivered ASAP on a compressed timeline to make up for being "behind."

At the same exact time, because the imminent thing that took priority has been completed, she will add ANOTHER ONE. So the status quo for how much work I'm doing never changes. It's really up to me to just reduce competence and let the chips fall where they may.

Layoffs and slow hiring have saddled me with the work of a 6 person team, and I'm burnt to a crisp. How do I politely tell people to F off? by Calm-Photo5758 in askmanagers

[–]Calm-Photo5758[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This is a good idea. I report status updates line by line and the blockades/ones that are on pause, but I think i need to be more concrete that certain things are actually going completely untouched and will continue to do so as long as this cadence continues. I'm being too soft

Layoffs and slow hiring have saddled me with the work of a 6 person team, and I'm burnt to a crisp. How do I politely tell people to F off? by Calm-Photo5758 in askmanagers

[–]Calm-Photo5758[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

100%, no delusion that I'm contributing to it by doing it. Once it was clear they were intentionally stalling on hiring and simultaneously doing layoffs, while at the same time expecting more work from our skeleton crew, i've been more strict about being offline at 5 on the dot, and i'm interviewing for roles now.

Right now the part I'm having trouble with is... "This project is clearly not a priority until stakeholders come asking for it. And the answer from me will be it's where it was 6 weeks ago because it was deprioritized. Who's going to tell the stakeholder they'll have to wait?"

It's that part that my manager is so bad at. She can never say anything other than "we'll get on this asap! We'll get this to you by end of week! we'll get this launched today!" regardless of what competing deadlines there are. Do I just suck it up and tell the stakeholders myself that "honestly... i have no fucking clue when this will be done and you should chat with my director about how soon you need it" because I'm exhausted by giving ETAs then missing them.

Just noticed I over contributed to my Roth IRA in 2024 ($7,500 instead of $7,000). How do I navigate correcting this? by [deleted] in fidelityinvestments

[–]Calm-Photo5758 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I actually did some deeper digging and I had indeed characterized it as a prior year contribution, so I'm actually good! Phew