Job no longer a good fit?

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Mineral1 said:

getmore4less said:

Mineral1 said:

Thanks for all the opinions and experiences, it does help. I had a meeting with my line manager today and went through a fair bit including some new skills I can learn and it shined a better light on things. There are others leaving pretty much every month but not for reasons that should worry me too much, from what I can tell.

Workload management is often overlooked and employees have to resist just getting more stuff added then finding they are working longer hours missing breaks etc, they have to push back,  if you want me to do this then is that higher priority than what I am doing for XXXX?  will you tell them or shall I........

The everything is important is just a fob off of by management making their problem your problem.

I find that part really hard to do. I try and work on it but I'm not good at resisting.

It can be tough and you have to be careful to get the balance right some stuff is really important.
I never had a problem with going the extra but not if it becomes the norm(which gets added too)

Identifying the right tasks to drop can be useful, or push back on.

eg. staying late to finish some output where the person that is is for is in meetings all morning, it can wait unless it is for one of those meetings.

In those cases you have to watch for the 5pm I need this sorted for my 9am,  really means I could do it myself but you can stay late I want to go home

Also identify where you are the one being put out because someone else left it too late to give you their output.

Highlight in advance if you don't get the output from X by say 3pm you cant do Y till the next day.

Understanding the position in the work flow is important to managing it.

Sometimes it can be as simple as starting with something simple, I have something to do on Wed I cannot stay late.