Ok, so I've been working for the same company (Lockheed Martin) for the past 2.5 years since I graduated from college. The job has been pretty good, not much to complain about ... but we're a government contractor, and recently the gov't asked us to take on a lot of work. Our management is too chicken to say "No" to the gov't, so they agreed to take on tons of extra work. More work than we have resources for, and our program is also downsizing because its coming towards end of life. So we're looking at an increasing amount of work with a dwindling workforce.
It hasn't been too bad for the past few months, we've been working some OT and stuff but it hasn't been too awful. But my team had 6 people in it and we keep picking up more work without adding warm bodies. And A week ago, my manager let one person in our team switch to another team. So we have 5 people. And then my team lead decided he had enough and accepted a new job today. So that leaves 4 of us to do 6 people's job and then some. Let me also mention that my team lead is one of those all-star workers that knows everything and probably does about 2-3 person's work.
Now, if I left as well it would put them in a pretty sucky situation ... 3 people to now do 6+ people's work. But in addition to all this fallout, I was assigned all of this extra work (and in my opinion BS paper pushing stuff). So I'm drowning in work, with more to come ... Probably a lot since I have the most experience after my team lead leaves and I'll be looked upon to take over his position or take a lot of his technical work.
So my question is, if you were in that situation ... would you leave them high and dry to probably make more money with less stress? Or would you stick it out and work your ass off and hope that you get some recognition for it? I also should add that dropping warm bodies into the group isn't easy because it requires a clearance and about 6 months of training before you really become somewhat useful (its a huge learning curve to catch on). Also I shouldn't have too hard of a time finding a job in this area (Northern Virginia), possibly within Lockheed Martin, because of my clearance.
I'd really love to stay in my position if at all possible ... I don't want to leave my team high and dry, but I find myself being more and more stressed with an impossible amount of work to do and less and less help.
It hasn't been too bad for the past few months, we've been working some OT and stuff but it hasn't been too awful. But my team had 6 people in it and we keep picking up more work without adding warm bodies. And A week ago, my manager let one person in our team switch to another team. So we have 5 people. And then my team lead decided he had enough and accepted a new job today. So that leaves 4 of us to do 6 people's job and then some. Let me also mention that my team lead is one of those all-star workers that knows everything and probably does about 2-3 person's work.
Now, if I left as well it would put them in a pretty sucky situation ... 3 people to now do 6+ people's work. But in addition to all this fallout, I was assigned all of this extra work (and in my opinion BS paper pushing stuff). So I'm drowning in work, with more to come ... Probably a lot since I have the most experience after my team lead leaves and I'll be looked upon to take over his position or take a lot of his technical work.
So my question is, if you were in that situation ... would you leave them high and dry to probably make more money with less stress? Or would you stick it out and work your ass off and hope that you get some recognition for it? I also should add that dropping warm bodies into the group isn't easy because it requires a clearance and about 6 months of training before you really become somewhat useful (its a huge learning curve to catch on). Also I shouldn't have too hard of a time finding a job in this area (Northern Virginia), possibly within Lockheed Martin, because of my clearance.
I'd really love to stay in my position if at all possible ... I don't want to leave my team high and dry, but I find myself being more and more stressed with an impossible amount of work to do and less and less help.
