I work for a corporation.
Said corporation did a big reorg. Colleagues from my team have been leaving for various reasons. I'm one of the few remaining members who have deep SME knowledge on our area.
Our area got combined with another. I found out that some of the positions are not being backfilled, and that my responsibilities are being merged with another person's. I'm already at 150% capacity prior to this reorg, due to people leaving and another colleague abusing our STD policy (went on vacation for 2.5 months ) and I've been covering for the extra work. I've had no luck with convincing my manager to delegate or reassign or get help for my existing work and it looks like it's just going to keep piling up. Been doing an extra hour every other day to help keep somewhat on top of this but I'm done. I can't keep doing this, been over 10 months of this workload.
I told my manager about this well in advance, fell on deaf ears, she started on about “aligning strategic pillars to realize interdepartmental synergies”. Obviously that this doesn't solve my problem. She continued to schedule non-work-related meetings with her staff during work hours, for example. I told her that my health was in decline after numerous times telling her my workload is unsustainable.
At one point she asked me to map out a timeline of my work after I told her that I won't meet specific deliverables in time due to workload. She balked at the tineline and asked “how can we ensure we stay on target”. I short, I essentially responded that that ship has now sailed and left it at that.
I recently applied for, and accepted an offer in another department where I feel that my workload will be normal. I start in a few weeks.
My current boss is now frantically scrambling to figure out who is going to inherit my ~2 FTE of work. She won't find someone as there simply is no staff to approach, and it will come to a head at some point soon after I'm in my new position. I've been asked to map out my tasks, and who I recommend delegating them to. For 90% of the tasks, I chose to delegate to the person who abused the STD policy. Not sure how he's going to be able to handle this but it's his problem now.