No, management needs to hire more people. One cannot hire for only a skeleton crew and expect things to always go as planned. People get sick, life happens.
If the minimum number of people to run a department is 3 people, you cannot have just three people hired on at any time. What about sick time and vacations, something that is needed for happy, healthy, productive workers? I would far prefer 5-7 people. We can survive with three people and it will happen, but when we have more people in at the same time, we can catch up on other stuff too.
When I was in management and so many people had to call out, I did not turn the screws on them and blame them for the poor performance of the day due to understaffing. I blamed my manager for not allowing me to hire more people I had begged for, for quite some time. This is where the blame should go.
Taking care of yourself is not lazy or selfish, such as recovering from illness or needing some time off. Reaping the lion’s share of the output of someone while demanding even more from them is. Don’t let those in power distract you from their own greedy bad behavior.
No, management needs to hire more people. One cannot hire for only a skeleton crew and expect things to always go as planned. People get sick, life happens.
If the minimum number of people to run a department is 3 people, you cannot have just three people hired on at any time. What about sick time and vacations, something that is needed for happy, healthy, productive workers? I would far prefer 5-7 people. We can survive with three people and it will happen, but when we have more people in at the same time, we can catch up on other stuff too.
When I was in management and so many people had to call out, I did not turn the screws on them and blame them for the poor performance of the day due to understaffing. I blamed my manager for not allowing me to hire more people I had begged for, for quite some time. This is where the blame should go.
Taking care of yourself is not lazy or selfish, such as recovering from illness or needing some time off. Reaping the lion’s share of the output of someone while demanding even more from them is. Don’t let those in power distract you from their own greedy bad behavior.