Boss piles work on new employee, continually setting unrealistic expectations: 'Everything is a priority right now'

When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.

Good management is all about setting your employees up for success. You can have the best, most talented workers in the world, and if they're not given the right resources, they will flounder. They won't know what to prioritize, and they won't have the bandwidth to get it done. Good managers know their way around this and will match the right resources to the right projects. Good employees can be efficient, but nobody can do everything by themselves. We all need support, and we all need help to accomplish the things we'd like to accomplish. Nobody can do it alone. But we're not always going to be handed what we need on a silver platter. We won't always have someone anticipating our needs, so we need to advocate for ourselves.

The manager in this story didn't quite understand that and left their employees to flounder. And when they tried to stand up for themselves, it wasn't working. So what do you do when you do everything you think you're supposed to, but it still comes up empty? We're told that we need to advocate for ourselves, but nobody tells us what we're supposed to do when we're struggling beyond that. Where do you turn when your boss won't listen to your reasonable complaints? What are you supposed to do when nobody wants to listen to you?

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That's what came up in this story, where an employee was growing increasingly frustrated with how they were being treated by their higher-ups. In their eyes, they weren't being set up for success and were tired of scrambling to get work done. The way their boss saw it, they wanted to squeeze every last drop out of them. But if you try to squeeze someone for all that they've got, soon enough, there will be nothing left to squeeze. Keep scrolling for a full picture of what was happening here, and see if you agree with what commenters had to say. Everyone has a story like this; it's just a matter of how you spin it.
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