I know we have to be aware of peoples mental health issues but you can’t carry other people forever.
I share a role that requires two people full time, with someone who suffers with depression. She’s very sensitive to relationship and social problems and as such she has extra time from work for it.
The difficulty is she can be gone from her desk for up to an hour at any time and calls in sick about once every 3 weeks.
Now the work falls on me. I work extra hours to get the work done with no pay or recognition, I’m regularly late picking my kids up from a rural school that isn’t on a bus route, I have no down time because even at home I’m working on my laptop and frankly months of me doing all the heavy lifting is burning me out.
At what point is someone going to do something? Is she capable of the work? Will they replace her or hire someone else?
Am I still going to be carrying someone else’s mental health issues beyond developing a few of my own? This situation is unsustainable. 🙁
The difficulty is she can be gone from her desk for up to an hour at any time and calls in sick about once every 3 weeks.
Now the work falls on me. I work extra hours to get the work done with no pay or recognition, I’m regularly late picking my kids up from a rural school that isn’t on a bus route, I have no down time because even at home I’m working on my laptop and frankly months of me doing all the heavy lifting is burning me out.
At what point is someone going to do something? Is she capable of the work? Will they replace her or hire someone else?
Am I still going to be carrying someone else’s mental health issues beyond developing a few of my own? This situation is unsustainable. 🙁
