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Part-time management role but no less work than full-timers

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goteam · 15/01/2021 20:51

I got a promotion a year ago but with lockdowns etc never really got a chance to reflect as I started in January began to get the hang of it then lockdown happened and work has been full on. I suppose I should have asked in the interview but the job is exactly the same as the full timers in the same role. There is no reduction in my tasks. I manage the same amount of staff, if anything I get asked to do extra ad I am good at things like presentations etc.

How could you broach this issue a year down the line? I work 3 days across 4. I have school age children so this flexibility was welcome and I have just kind of accepted that it is a full time job squeezed into a part-time role but I know I shouldn't just accept it.

Any advice welcome as it is bothering me now I have the kids at home and I am feeling stressed. I am the only manager (5 of us in the same role) with children and there is no support for me. Any extra projects come to my team as we are seen as capable and efficient but this seems like it is a poor way of dealing with inadequacies in other teams (without going off on a tangent as this is a whole other thread!)

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Catsneezies · 22/01/2021 21:06

I am in a very similar position and really struggling. I work 3 days per week and am also homeschooling two primary DC but still manage to do about double the amount of work as my FT colleagues. The problem is that they are slackers so if I don't do the work it doesn't get done and then ends up being even more stressful as I usually then get asked to sort it out at the last minute by management.

The full-timers are very happy to say that they don't have time to do things when I know for a fact that they have lots of spare time. But other than accuse them of lying there's nothing I can do about it.

My manager is the worst. She tells us she is in meetings all the time so doesn't have time to do things but again I'm pretty sure she only has one meeting a month at the most so this is all lies. But I can't prove it!

Sometimes I feel that having a strong work ethic just means you get penalised as you just get given more work and then once you get in the habit of doing a lot more work than everyone else is somehow becomes expected.

On the other hand, I feel like I need the two days off to support my DC and before covid I would get out and about and do fun stuff. But I definitely feel really resentful that I'm being paid just over half what the full timers are paid but I'm doing more work and suffering from more stress.

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