I'm currently in a department that has been decimated by resignation and am managing around 3 times the expected work load. My boss head is FIRMLY in the sand about our department crumbling.
Funnily enough my lone team mate and I are falling behind on our work and the boss had noticed this. What does he come up with?
“I'm trying to figure out why you're falling behind because employee name used to do this workload plus more (named all tasks) and we never had an issue. I'm not sure what's happened as we haven't grown that much in twelve months (referring to portfolio size). Is it processes or training that we need to work on? ” mind you thus is about the 5th time in 3 weeks that he's used this line. No accountability for the staff shortage, no offer for reassurance at all on how the future looks for the department.
I responded letting him know it's not processes nor training but the lack of man power. Mind you we haven't been financially compensated for the additional work of course.
How good does that feel?!