It's been two months since our operations lead left, and all of his responsibilities have fallen on me and my supervisor. The owner doesn't “abide by” titles, and gets frustrated whenever they come up, but at this point…
I was hired as an administrative assistant ten months ago. I now have a four and a half page job description, which parsed out, equates to Human Resources Coordinator, People Operations Coordinator, Customer Representative, File Clerk, Office Manager, and administrative assistant. I'm getting dragged into shift scheduling because the owner doesn't trust our new scheduling coordinator. I'm job tracking every contract that hits five figures.
And in the meantime, I'm getting slammed on all sides because I've been assigned to literally every single department in the company just to patch holes as people leave.
I'm exhausted. I've developed an eye twitch. I had to talk down a 6'4″ man who was yelling in an operations meeting because he didn't like that the owner was listening to the HR Manager about conducting an investigation into complaints of racism on the jobsite, and I swear to fucking god, if I hadn't already hit the fuckit point, I would have cried.
He didn't even get a write up, by the way. Owner promised me one and then refused to follow through because “he's a good supervisor, he knows he screwed up.”
I'm doing all of this for $25 an hour, 3 sick days a year, and a week of vacation time.
I'm done. I'm just done with small businesses. I love working locally, I love the feeling of being involved in the community, and if I let one more job grind me into the dust with overloading my job responsibilities, I will hate myself for the rest of my life.