After downsizing, my employer has discovered irony...

[MindPilot]

An article in today's company e-newsletter:
:puke:

Dealing With Overload

Are you constantly asked to do more with less?
Is there so much on your plate that you don’t know where to start?
Do you feel spent at the end of the workday?

You are not alone if you often feel overloaded at work. According to a 2005 Families and Work Institute study, one-third of U.S. employees report feeling chronically overworked. With companies downsizing and streamlining work, jobs have expanded, resulting in longer hours and more responsibilities and work for everyone.

Company consultants can help you:
Get tips on organizing your time and your work.
Learn simple techniques to manage stress during the workday.
Develop better relationships with your co-workers and your manager.
Work well with people from different generations.
Regain a better balance between your work and the rest of your life.

You can also visit the Company web site to read or download the following articles:

Getting Organized at Work
Quick Tips for Learning to Relax
Quick Tips for Getting Through a Work Crunch
Communicating at Work
Learning and Teaching Across the Generations at Work
Five Ways to Give It Your Best at Work and at Home

The Company also offers a new booklet titled “10 Ways to Overcome Overload.” The booklet covers prioritizing, setting limits, organizing, dealing with information overload, multitasking and taking care of yourself so you feel more in control at work and at home.

[cspanlovr]

1. Its like a cruel joke, isn't it?

[MindPilot]

7. Yeah, but I still manage to spend a good part of my day posting on DU

That's how I deal with overload! :bounce:

[donco6]

2. My book: "One Way to Overcome Overload" -

it's real short - only three words: Hire More People.

[htuttle]

3. Yeah, but what I really want to know is, "Who Moved the Cheese?"

[MindPilot]

6. That was the guy who colored your parachute.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. There is a sick irony for the employees as well.

First you worry if you going to be laid off.
Then you are relieved that you still have your job.
Within a short time, you are not so sure it is such a good thing since you are now expected to do your work, and the work of those who were laid off, for the same, or perhaps even less money.

Within a certain timeframe this cycle is repeated, and your job is threatened again, but this time you feel even more threatened since you have been so overworked and therefore not as productive.

It is a lose/lose situation for the employees.
I have been there, done that.

[MindPilot]

8. And after about three or four of those cycles...

Upper management suddenly wants to know why we aren't putting all those new and innovative products on the shelves like we used to. :eyes:

[DBoon]

9. That's when the company gets bought by a foreign conglomerate

upper management gets their golden parachute, everyone else gets sent home.

And they wonder why we keep running a balance of trade deficit

[Nimrod2005]

5. Priceless!!!

:rofl:

[nolabels]

10. Eff the stupid morons

Let them eat cake. Working on an hourly wage I sometimes am getting paid three times what they could hire just about anybody to do instead. Corporations are too busy wasting money trying make more money (thinking that leads to control).

When it comes to efficiency, the bloated-government-in-their-pocket-corporations have nothing to offer.