All about work

Work officially sucks.

In my office we have 3 administrators and 2-3 full time staff supporters. In the office next door we have an administrator and a full-time staff/faculty supporter. At the moment, In my office we are short one administrator and in the other office we are short both positions. The position that we are short here is the person responsible for all our HR and Personnel as well as the office management and staff supervision. The vacant positions next door include the department chair and all of the department management and student services. My admin is the Associate Dean of Operations so he's responsible for keeping everything running. Therefore, he has picked up all the tasks that are relegated to the empty positions. To do this, he is relying on me to keep both offices running, with the help of the rest of the team, train the temp next door, do all my original tasks and his portion of those tasks as well. As the senior staff person, all the other staff are looking to me for guidance and direction. It's a delicate line because I am not their supervisor, I'm just reporting to their supervisor...Complicated.

In short everyone is overworked, underpaid, and getting more frustrated and confused by the minute. I am spending a lot of time running around helping others do their job and not getting any of my work done. I'm waiting for the yelling to start...