Basically, I am an accounting student, final year. I got hired by a small company to basically be a secretary/ basic tax preparer. My initial job description is that I work on preparing t4s and t4s then switch over to Preparing income taxes for individuals in march and April while doing basic secretary duties like scanning documents and making calls.
Suddenly, I am left basically by my self in Feb to march to prepare everything my self. Furthermore, I am now supposed to learn to do other tax stuff since the senior in the company took a 2 months vacation. I have to pick up the slack to do his stuff. I have to now prepare financial statements, file sales taxes, prepare corporate returns, hunt down client to get engagement letters signed., and handle enquiries by cra and our 400+ clients. All while doing my regular duties of preparing income taxes that no one trained me to do.
I feel overwhelmed at the level of work and responsibility. I am basically doing senior level work for close to minimum wage.
Am I over reacting, or is this too much work for a person that has never worked un the industry longer than 4 months?