For the first three years that I worked there, there were two people
who worked in special care and nursing. When the nursing manager quit for a position elsewhere, a replacement was hired. That
person left after one day on the job, once she determined that the
on-call hours would be too much. The executive director asked me
to fill in for two weeks, and that was four months ago. This is the
fifth time this has happened to me at this organization in three and
a half years. I receive no extra pay, and I have mentioned it a few
times. I keep telling them that one person doing both can do neither
job correctly. Sometimes they complain to me about things not getting done. They say, “I know you’re doing two jobs, but . . .” I could
say I’ll only do one job, but then the forty-five people would have no
one to help. I could go to the executive director and say I won’t do
both jobs anymore, but she’d probably say, “Hang in there.” As long
as you’re willing to wear ten hats, they’ll let you wear ten hats.