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Half of my team is leaving soon and my workload has doubled

I am a Junior Engineer at a Global well-respected company. I have been at the job for one year. Recently I noticed that my boss was assigning all my colleagues projects to me and being still relatively new I felt that I shouldn’t question this. I did approach my other colleague just venting about how I am swamped with work and it’s getting overwhelming. They disclosed that two of our senior team members are leaving soon therefore all their work has shifted to us. Now I am still getting paid the same but doing double the work. My pay is still very low and I barely make ends meet but here I am doing the work of someone who gets paid 2x my salary and working unpaid overtime to finish my work. What should I do? I asked my colleague if she will leave and she feels like she should…


I am a Junior Engineer at a Global well-respected company. I have been at the job for one year. Recently I noticed that my boss was assigning all my colleagues projects to me and being still relatively new I felt that I shouldn’t question this. I did approach my other colleague just venting about how I am swamped with work and it’s getting overwhelming. They disclosed that two of our senior team members are leaving soon therefore all their work has shifted to us. Now I am still getting paid the same but doing double the work. My pay is still very low and I barely make ends meet but here I am doing the work of someone who gets paid 2x my salary and working unpaid overtime to finish my work. What should I do? I asked my colleague if she will leave and she feels like she should but she will stay out of loyalty to the company. I really want to work overseas as well but I don’t feel like I have enough experience.

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