How to Tell Your Boss You're Overworked

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This article does seen to help me sit back and think about this logically, but i have tried a few times to tell my boss i'm doing the job of 5 people and feel like i'm doing 100 things poorly instead of 50 things well. It's frustrating. I feel like since i recently received a raise that i grew a twin and should just suck it up. It's frustrating because i always give 200% and now i feel abused for it. When I look at my peers who have a reasonable work load and do not have the same expectations it's frustrating. Makes me wonder if i put myself in this position by actually giving too much to my work place. Thanks for letting me know this happens other places!

Marie of KS 8:10PM April 22, 2012

Hey Karen -
Great info for the overworked and abused! I'm sharing this with my friends!
Often, a boss hasn't a clue about how much work you actually do until you point it out to them. Some slave-driver bosses don't realize what they are doing to you, so tact and finesse is the key to getting the message across to them. And, then again, there are some pretty bad bosses out there. We need to retrain them.

Gina in Gulf Breeze of FL 2:11PM May 22, 2010

I have a job that my boss acknowledges one person cannot do alone. But so does she. Neither one of us could ever begin to find the time to document all our tasks and how long it takes to do them, let alone figure out the dollars and cents issues. The parent company issued a mandaate that we have to make more money, but we can't take on new business with our current work loads, we are too busy trying to keep up current customer service standards and not lose the business we have. So no money to hire more people, without more people we can't make more money....it's a catch 22. I keep buying lottery tickets - retirement looks like the best option for this 54 year old.

laurel of OR 5:09PM April 02, 2010

This all sounds good, but most bosses aren't going to want to see someone come in and tell them that here is a better way for them to run their business, particularly when that better way just happens to benefit the one who is coming in to tell them how to better run their business. You are going to have to be the consumate salesperson to get away with this. This is almost an unsolvable problem, sorry.

RSB of WA 4:43PM April 01, 2010