When To Hire
Hey Everyone,
For a couple years I’ve been wrestling with something and I would like y’all’s opinion.
I am a Staff Accountant at a company that does roughly $20M annually. I am a one man show for the Finance department here. I answer only to the CFO of our parent company.
At what point would you all demand additional employees in your department for a company this size?
My work load is quite a lot. I’m the ERP super user and everyone assumes I know everything about the company not just Finance. I mean from Sales to Logistics and QA to product specs.
It is a wonderful Friday today so I took it off. As of lunch today I have 150+ unread emails. There’s seriously just 25 employees. I know right now how badly Monday is going to suck.
I am ready to put my foot down about this level of work. The problem is it’s a golden handcuff situation. I am over paid for my tittle in my locality. I live in a LCOL area. I’m a DINKWAD and my job is otherwise completely flexible. It’s feels egregious to complain about this but I am consistently taking about 36-48 hours to respond to emails while making sure I meet even just Government deadlines for all fillings.
What would you all do?