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I am very stress out and do not know what I should do at this point. I started my new job for a few weeks now and I am already burned out. I work at least 10 hours each day, and sometimes even 12, and sometimes working on weekends to meet deadlines so my boss isn't breathing down my neck. What's even worse is that, I have a micromanager and I am called out for every small mistakes, even ones I did not make. I am sick and tired of having projects thrown at me and tasks given, with no deadlines, but expected to get them done within the day. If it's not, I am given the "talk." I do not even want to talk to my boss about this because I already know I will always be in the wrong in his perspective, and the meeting will probably end up with more micro-management.
I accepted the job knowing there was a lot of responsibility and knowing it required some after hours, but I didn't know it was every single day. The paid does not even compensate up the the number of hours I work. I should have took notice of the red flags but I was desperate to find a new job since prior job laid off a bunch of people. Now I want to find a new job but I do not want to look like a job hopper because my prior jobs were a little less than a year (leaving them was out of my control). I am not sure if I just suck at time management or the workload is ridiculous. I want to stick it out but I honestly don't know how I can handle being tired and angry everyday.
Is there another manager in your firm you could discuss this with other than your direct supervisor? If your micromanager is that obvious maybe other managers know about it as well, and could empathize with you. They might have suggestions for how to handle all this better. Check to see if your company has a mentoring program....a mentor can be a sounding board, a counselor, help you develop ways to cope with the work, and possibly be a trusted ally.
It sounds harsh, but it also sounds very very common. You can keep jumping jobs, but IMHO you may learn a lot of valuable coping skills from this one too. Isn't it possible to discuss the workload with your department manager at all?
Do you see anything happening that will change the way things are right now? Can you improve how you perform your task to overcome the load? Do they show signs of reducing your load? Are you getting an assistant to siphon away some of the task? Quit if you don't see any hope of change; stay of you think there is hope of change. Very SIMPLE decision...
Some companies need to see their employees working nights and weekends ALWAYS, especially if the workers are salaried and exempt and are not paid for the overtime work. I used to work as a software developer in IT. All my IT jobs were like that. That is the nature of the beast in that profession, where management wants to extricate as much work as possible out of their employees for as little labor cost as possible. Heavy overtime is always the name of the game.
Talk to other employees and see if they are putting in those extra hours as well and how they cope with it. If this is not a temporary thing, you will either have to become a workaholic or try to find another job. I know that in IT, changing jobs was usually jumping from one frying pan to another.
I always realize, sitting in a bad job, the red flags right in the beginning. This sounds terrible - start looking immediately - and forget this hot mess.
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