| Has your employer noticed that you don't complain | | | | Prior to the meeting that you set up with your boss, |
| when more and more work is landed on your desk? | | | | look at your workload and assess it carefully. If you |
| Or is your manager taking advantage of your good | | | | can, then compare it to the workload of colleagues. |
| nature and just piling on the pressure and increasing | | | | Then assess whether you are doing more than them. |
| your workload every day? | | | | If you are doing more than them, then this gives you |
| Well you don't have to suffer in silence and you don't | | | | ammunition to fire at your manager. |
| have to felt hat you need to sign up with a recruitment | | | | Assess how long it takes to do tasks and then |
| agency. You should be able to manage this situation | | | | contrast this with how many hours you are contracted |
| and make sure that your boss doesn't take you for | | | | to work. You should also look at whether or not you |
| granted any more. | | | | are doing any tasks that are not in your job description. |
| What you should do to rectify this situation is to talk to | | | | Once you have all the evidence you need to show |
| your line manager. But plan to do this. Ask for an | | | | that you are overworked, stressed and probably |
| appointment to discuss your workload after you have | | | | underpaid, then you can present the information to |
| initially started to plan your campaign. Don't wait until | | | | your manager and negotiate a way forward, in a calm |
| you reach breaking point and suddenly shout and | | | | and rational manner and one which should have a |
| scream at your boss: instead plan strategically. | | | | positive outcome. So don't suffer in silence: speak out! |