My supervisor thinks I do very little

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I've written about my supervisor here before but recently I have been making mistakes and running several weeks behind due to my long absences(a/l), heavy workload partly due to duplication of emails by colleagues requesting same things, inc. doing my supervisor's job(around 40-60% of it) as well as pointless tasks which I have challenged but have stayed with me.

I am doing way more than my job role desc. and expected to keep up. It's supposed to be a mundane routine job and the issues are becoming more and more complicated and long winded. I am also training another member of staff who works part time and doing 60% of that role when it inevitably vacates every couple of months due to poor hiring practices
As well as that, every time something goes wrong or somebody is off for long periods, I end up having to pick up the slack even though I am not their supervisor or even in the same team.

Anyway, things have come to a head and I don't know how my supervisor can honestly say I don't have much of a workload...time to leave #rant over

Responses and similar stories welcome

Stop doing your supervisor's job, stop doing the junior's job, look for a new job for yourself!

I think if a supervisor said to me they didn't think I was doing much, I'd stop doing any extras and wait and see if they notice.

Stop doing other peoples work, catch up on your own backlog. Don’t duplicate work , return emails informing the sender(s) that the task was completed on 00/00/2022, and cc your supervisor.

Keep a log of it all, that highlights where duplicate work is happening, you are covering time off etc. Its time consuming and annoying but might get them to back off.

My sister changed jobs after her protests about her unrealistic workload, which had gradually increased over the years she'd been there, went unheeded.

She later discovered they had recruited three people to replace her!

I leave my current job tomorrow after a similar experience. Duplicated work, just way too much for one person and it made me physically ill.

I repeatedly requested another team member but it kept being denied and I was even told that it was me "not working smart enough".

Then I was told (by our chief operating officer) that I was over exaggerating my disability (full time wheelchair user) because I could go to the loo when my husband isn't home.

I start my new job on Monday. Life is too short for shit like that.

Oh and they are recruiting a replacement but OUTSOURCING about 60% of the workload to an external company.

"Then I was told (by our chief operating officer) that I was over exaggerating my disability (full time wheelchair user) because I could go to the loo when my husband isn't home."

Omg that's awful!

I had a supervisor like that he wanted me to log all my activities for the day so he could track where my hours were going.
I worked 8-4 due to commute ( agreed at interview stage) but within a week he would make a point of coming to my desk at 3.30 -3.45 to start some task he wanted done. Ie ensured I never left when meant to.

We also had a agreed a start date of x but we had horrible snow for 2 days so I requested to work for home where there were multiple tasks I could complete. He agreed but also told hr to delay my start date for 2 days so I wasn't payed for it.

All round a complete dick and I lasted about 2 months before leaving and filling a complaint with hr on the way out the door ( not that it did any good)

My advise is always get out of these situations. Time to start hunting for another job

That's horrible about not getting paid

We recently had a work visit to another site and the temp told me our supervisor told her she would only get paid for her normal hours and not the additional time which added to around 5 extra hours and she could take it off her normal hours. That's partly why she's not agreed to extend her contract a couple of months to get us over the busier period and this is a major company as well.

Log everything. It takes a few minutes extra but I found it was well worth it.

Slightly different for me because I was being expected to meet a the same target set for full time staff when I worked part time, and which also depended on me being rostered on to be "customer facing" when I was mostly rostered on as general dogsbody the support work.