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I am in IT. Our HR and receptionist both quit over a month ago and somehow I became their de facto replacements. This is at a Fortune 500 company. I can’t focus on anything for more than 10 minutes at a time because how often I get interrupted making my job stressful an nearly impossible. It’s not as if this company doesn’t have additional resources to backfill the vacant positions, they do. But the HR Director emailed my manager asking for me to ‘help’. He of course obliged. It’s untenable. I made the mistake of leaving a major metropolitan area for this ‘opportunity’ which happens to be in an otherwise dry market for the industry. Obviously I didn’t consider it at the time but this job is a total nightmare. Inflation and buying a house in 2021 has left my savings dwindling. I’m just so sick of this shit. /rant…


I am in IT. Our HR and receptionist both quit over a month ago and somehow I became their de facto replacements. This is at a Fortune 500 company. I can’t focus on anything for more than 10 minutes at a time because how often I get interrupted making my job stressful an nearly impossible. It’s not as if this company doesn’t have additional resources to backfill the vacant positions, they do. But the HR Director emailed my manager asking for me to ‘help’. He of course obliged. It’s untenable. I made the mistake of leaving a major metropolitan area for this ‘opportunity’ which happens to be in an otherwise dry market for the industry. Obviously I didn’t consider it at the time but this job is a total nightmare. Inflation and buying a house in 2021 has left my savings dwindling. I’m just so sick of this shit. /rant over

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