How do I deal with feeling overworked?

Asked by chelle21689 (7907) August 31st, 2017 from iPhone

I’ve been at my job for a year and half, as some of you may recall, my division VP was let go and then my boss was let go with the start of a new president many changes came. Funny enough, several months later we are about to hire a new VP and then the assistant VP just resigned.

Anyway, we have an interim director that’s been with us a few months. He originally started as a contractor consulting HR departments for different companies so he has a lot of insight. Many changes he made to improve our ways which makes sense but I feel like he’s throwing so many changes and projects that it’s hard to keep up.
My job is pretty much a two person job and we’ve always tried to request for another position like an assistant. I’m in charge of drafting hundreds and hundreds of contracts, receiving them back and tracking them off, recruiting for different department and attending several interviews and meetings, I’m responsible for office supplies and dealing with interrupted walk-ins and also the several day-to-day questions and tasks which build up in my emails. Now I’m in charge of trying to do orientations more often and trying to make it better when I barey have the time. Also in charge of new hires onboarding, terminations, benefits, data entry, invoices…

So I feel like I’m doing everything… I had a one on one appointment and the Interim director asked me how things are going. I said very very busy. I’m the only one working through my lunches and staying 2.5 hours past closing and the last one to leave the bulding…first to arrive and last to leave. He said if I’m feeling overwhelmed let him know…despite me telling him I’ve been really busy he gives me another ongoing project and responsibility!!

Everyone knows I work a lot. People joke they need to find me under all that paperwork because my desk is literally covered. Did I mention I’m in charge of scanning and filing? That’s being backed up. I have student help as assistants but they’re not always available because classes are a priority…. so even with help I can’t keep up. I complete half my tasks and then it doubles by the end of the day.

My job has become increased with much more responsibility and I’m beginning to hate it because I’m going home near 8pm and working through lunch. Is this normal?? They said they requested help for me by getting an assistant but no word. He keeps saying he will check on the position because he even said we are understaffed but nothing new after several months.

So before him I was very busy but I was able to have lunch and go home, I didn’t stay late often but now it’s every night for the last two months since he came and changed it all.