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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.[b] In their eyes your husband is not going above and beyond, rather they were overpaying for too many team members before. 
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The bolded is important, OP, because the longer your husband is able to sustain this unsustainable pace and workload without the notice of his higher ups, the more sustainable those higher ups will believe it to be. If he continues to do more than his own job when they hire new team members, they will assume that they do not need to hire more team members. And maybe they do not. Maybe your husband could do THREE jobs instead of 6 and be fine. Who knows? The point is that right now, the people making the decisions about how many people to hire think that the work is being delegated appropriately and effectively. That needs to change.

In his shoes, I would use the language above, but I would also schedule a meeting with my boss to talk about the overall situation - a timeline for getting back to a higher staffing level, ways to mitigate the situation right now, raise concern about needing medical leave due to the physically unsustainable nature of the current workload, etc. If the answer is that they are staffing up in January, then I would try to negotiate some kind of compensation for the additional work performed over the last 6 months and until the new folks are able to pick up the reins. As others have said, $95k is way too little for this kind of work, even if he loves what he does. It is worth more and should be compensated accordingly.[/quote]

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