So fed up

[Lindsey]

I don't know how much more I can take of my job. I used to love it, coming to work at 8 and going home at 5. I always knew my hours. Once in awhile I'd work a little bit overtime but that was rare.

Since July, I could count on my fingers the number of days I went home at 5. I have been here past midnight to meet deadlines. We contracted a team of designers from Mexico and Arizona to help out, and they've been here until 6 in the morning more than a handful of nights. They sleep for an hour and come back for another full day of work. This is absolutely ridiculous.

We finished our big project submission Friday and we will wait 1-2 weeks to get it back for revisions, so we thought we'd have a pretty stress-free week. Well, yesterday the CEO of our company came to us with a job that NEEDS to get done THIS WEEK and he can't find anyone else to do it. Our lovely office manager suggested the amazing design team here because we can meet any deadline! So it's back to the crunch and I'm still working overtime.

I have not used ANY holiday days this year, any time off has been on banked time. I have taken 3 weeks off this year. I have 111 hours banked as of Monday. I still have my regular 3 weeks of holidays to use up. Since July, I have banked an extra FOUR WEEKS of time off. That's in just 3 months! This is not normal, this is not a regular 8-5 job. They keep going after more and more work that we don't have enough people to staff, unless we keep working these insane hours. The project managers go home on time every day, tell us what they need to look at in the morning, and we're here all night getting it done for them. I guess that's why they get paid more

Sorry I just had to vent. I have no life at all outside of work anymore. Scott is getting upset with me because things are falling behind at home. All I want to do is take an hour to relax before going to bed and doing it all over again. I'm stressed out all the time.