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Stressed! Not sure what to do

Manager is new and unskilled (even gets me to make pivot tables for his reporting work) & dumps work as he can’t get other team members to listen to him and he doesn’t want his inefficiency to be seen at leadership levels. There are months where I am allocated twice or sometimes thrice the number of projects which eventually makes me stretch hours and work weekends and is leading to frustration. I have tried highlighting the imbalance of allocated work even to other leads, but there is no solution and all I am asked is to wait a while till some restructuring happens. There are times, my manager will give me a teams call and ask me to finish the additional allocated work while on the call so that he knows I am working on it on priority and then I need to complete my assigned work in the remaining…


Manager is new and unskilled (even gets me to make pivot tables for his reporting work) & dumps work as he can’t get other team members to listen to him and he doesn’t want his inefficiency to be seen at leadership levels. There are months where I am allocated twice or sometimes thrice the number of projects which eventually makes me stretch hours and work weekends and is leading to frustration.
I have tried highlighting the imbalance of allocated work even to other leads, but there is no solution and all I am asked is to wait a while till some restructuring happens.
There are times, my manager will give me a teams call and ask me to finish the additional allocated work while on the call so that he knows I am working on it on priority and then I need to complete my assigned work in the remaining time.
I have even mentioned that if I finish my work faster it is because I plan or need time to plan my other tasks better and not take more work.

Any and all suggestions are welcome!

Ps- Almost a year into this organization & 6 months of excessive stressful work since new manager.

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