My boss has been out of the office since last week.  Normally this would be a good thing as we get a lot of work done when he’s not around.  But this time he’s “working from home.”  What this basically means is that he emails us orders all day long demanding that we put out this fire or that.  What he doesn’t see is all the stuff we’re trying to get done in between his fits.

My job has become too much to take lately.  They keep asking for more and more of us and we’re all afraid that if we don’t give it we’ll be out on the streets.

Today an email came demanding that we each solicite overtime from our teams and if we fail to get enough we’ll have to come in and work in their place.  We need the overtime because we’re short staffed because we undercut ourselves on how many people it’d take to do the work correctly.  Now we’re constantly begging people to work over in the same breathe as we’re telling people they can’t take their lunch or breaks.  It’s a broken system and the bossman doesn’t seem to see it.

He’ll see soon.  He’s going to have a rebellion if he’s not careful.  Either that or we’ll all quit.  Quitting sounds nice.