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When you and your supervisor can't solve chronic understaffing

My supervisor and I keep having the same conversation about my caseload being too high but nothing changes and we both know I'm burning out and the clients are getting less than they deserve but we just keep pretending that working harder is somehow going to solve a structural problem.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You and your boss keep agreeing your workload is impossible, then acting like working harder will fix it.

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