@agitated_trash It was! I felt like a failure but I reached a point yesterday where it was either quit one of the projects or quit my job entirely because I can't keep doing this. Now the question is...did they listen to me or were they giving me lip service?

@Foxthorn @agitated_trash There's a failure here all right and it's a failure of management (but not your management!)

@CrowTheory @agitated_trash We have lost a lot of staff in the last year. I have been in this boat before back in the early 2000's. It did not end well when the workers who remained were asked to do the job of three people to make up for the missing bodies.

@Foxthorn this is wild, I know 100% what you mean. I was the penultimate one on a sinking boat and and it was awful, painful, traumatic, scarred me for life with trust issues.

@CrowTheory

@kerrywth I am an engineer. Unfortunately, I am the contract labor :) My employer needs to hire and they've been trying but the bodies just aren't there or they are there but they're not at the level they need to be at to lead or at least work independently on this kind of project. Our middle tier is basically missing. Many of them went elsewhere during the pandemic and those who remained had to graduate to the senior tier to replace those who retired. It's an industry-wide struggle.

@Foxthorn that's a tough place to be. You did right to bring this up, it's part of any job to disclose a forecasted point of failure far enough in advance for the employer to overcome it or make some adjustments.

(Sounds like you almost broke yourself so maybe waited a bit too long)