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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is 100% your husband’s fault. What people do in this situation is work from 9–5:30 (or whatever his hours are supposed to be. Then he emails his boss and says. “I’ve made X progress on the Widget project and Y progress on the Fidget project. Both deadlines are coming up next week. There is time to finish X or Y, which would like me to prioritize?” As long as your husband does extra work, his boss never has to make hard decisions and the company never faces any consequences. In their eyes your husband is not going above and beyond, rather they were overpaying for too many team members before. [/quote] I wouldn't be so harsh, but your husband is setting himself up for this becoming more permanent. I oversee several managers and if the job gets done with half the staff (without complaint or honest discussions from the managers) they are telling me that the job could be done with half the staff. Since I have a budget, I'm going to make the staff reductions permanent. Your husband needs to talk to his boss ASAP. I sort of agree with the poster above - he needs to keep his boss apprised of the status of the job, but instead of asking his boss, which would you like me to prioritize, he should say, "my plan is to prioritize X, Y and Z and push back A, B and C projects" Afterall, it's his job as a manager to know which projects/jobs need highest priority. He should also ask for temporary help from other departments from his boss - the company itself may be able to provide some relief - maybe not to the extent a FTE would, but maybe could do some data entry, administrative or other tasks that don't take as long to train.[/quote]
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