When your boss asks you to cover for your coworker who just got fired

S3E17 "Cutbacks"

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I'm on a team of three and the two other ppl both quit in the same week a few months back. I am no longer breaking my back trying to cover for 2 extra FTEs. I'm taking Fridays off work every week from now until 2025 and the entire two weeks from before Christmas through New Years. I didn't take any time off work for like 3 months, I'm stressed out, tired, and cranky, they haven't hired anyone, they ignored my preferred candidate we interviewed for one position, and they won't even post the 2nd until 2025 at the earliest. Fuck it
- When people around you start to quit, it's probably best to look for another job.
  But yeah, if you are the only person remaining, you have more power to make the company demand less of you (I'd go for more organized demands for the same amount of work, not for less work). Ask for more. It's not like they can do anything about it.
  
  Yep I actually asked them to pay for a $2500 certification and they did which includes 4 full workdays of training, so I'm pretty stoked about that. The training will skill me up so I can help with some extra work they need help with. It's a decent place to work overall but I am open to an opportunity if one shows up
This is happening to my father's engineering team, but a dude DIED. I will say, though, my father's the project lead and came in to fill in. He didn't reallocate the work. I know he's an outlier. I'm proud of him. He works with switches/ semi-conductors. It's high pressure for chip engineers rn, but he still came in. I will admit, though, that my father has largely been absent from my/ my siblings' life as a result.