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    Melinda
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    Hi there…..I could use some guidance on an issue I am having at work.  For the past eight years I have always felt the work load was unbalanced between me and my three coworkers.  I finally had an opportunity to sit down and run some reports to quantify the work.  I wanted to throw up and cry when I saw that I literally do 2x the amount of work of two co-workers and a quarter more than another….my prior supervisor set up the work load and needless to say she dumped more on me because she knew I would do it and I was not one of her favorites. A little over two years ago we got a new supervisor and she is negligent in managing us.  There are days when I don’t even know what she wore to work that day. So I decided I needed to diplomatically address the work load and tell her I am exhausted and cannot do this anymore.  She was shocked and had no idea.  I wasn’t shocked because she makes no effort to interact with us.  I told her these people are my friends and I am not looking to make waves or start a holy war but we are all paid the same amount and the work should be balanced….I told her I know she didn’t create this problem but I needed her to address it.  She said she completely understood how I felt and it wasn’t right.  She said she would look to switch accounts but run it by me first….well a month later and yesterday she sent an email to one of my coworkers that they would be handling a project.  Unfortunately it’s a small project that is less than 1% of my workload.  I was so devistated that again my concerns were dismissed and not addressed.  I know she is deathly afraid to make any real change because of the fall out from my other coworkers.  I really thought if I was sincere and genuine things would work out.  I truly do not understand why I am stuck in this job and situation.  I can quote a million lines from my numerous books from Eckhardt, Deepak, Yogananda, and the readings I have had from an intuitive guide and numerologist and for the life of me I can’t understand the purpose of this situation and what I need to do to get out of it.  To what end?  I know my life is happening for me not against me but seriously this is slowly killing me.

    #148021
    Anonymous
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    Dear Melinda:

    You described an unjust situation at work: you and the co workers you mentioned are paid the same, yet your work load is double or so. The supervisor doesn’t perform her job (and is probably gets paid more than you). Unjust and unfair.

    At the end of your post, you wrote that you read all those books and you: “can’t understand the purpose of this situation and what I need to do to get out of it.  To what end?  I know my life is happening for me not against me but seriously this is slowly killing me.” “To what end” is also the title of your thread.

    My answer: there is no purpose to this situation and your life is not happening with your welfare in mind: there is no godly manager that created this particular injustice for you personally for your own good. Looking for that good is not congruent with reality, I believe.

    Injustice is what happens in life, a whole lot, everywhere. Unfortunate but real. It happens because of ignorance, laziness, ill intent, aggressiveness, and so on.

    You tried to solve this injustice by approaching the manager and you did well. Unfortunately, as you described, she is not very involved and is less than competent. What do you do next?

    anita

     

    #148037
    Melinda
    Participant

    What I want to do is not even participate with this production but avoiding it leaves me where I am.  I am afraid of approaching her about it because if she was going to address my concern appropriately I would have to ask her…she would have approached me to say how it was going to be handled.  Also afraid of her telling me she isn’t going to to any more than what she has done.  I want nothing more than to find a new job but my attempts have all been “no”.  Which is why I don’t understand why I am stuck in the situation I am in….I have had two intuitive readings and both have said you can get new jobs your not stuck….if this isn’t stuck I don’t know what is.  If this job is of no consequence why has nothing else come to fruition?

    #148065
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Melinda:

    Your own intuition is more accurate than the intuition of the people who gave you the two intuitive readings. Like you wrote, you are indeed stuck. You are stuck because your efforts to find a new job did not succeed and because the manager didn’t correct the unjust situation. And because you are afraid to ask her again.

    You wrote that “this job is of no consequence”- what do you mean by that?

    anita

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