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TL;DR: This year I changed job to a quite toxic company and because I have to work for two different clients in parallel I'm burning out. I need suggestions about telling about my mental health to my employer or request to change clients because of their incompatibility

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At the begin of this year I changed work from a small startup (which was nice, but they didn't pay very much) to a consulting company and since then I'm experiencing my first burnout.

Just to give some context, the first month or two months in this new position were nice: the project I've been put on was difficult, but the other people in the team were very kind and helped me navigate through the codebase. After there quiet months, I've been put on a second project (in parallel with the first one), same domain but different client and the two clients must not know that I work for other clients. This doesn't work particularly well because both of the clients require me a full--time presence and both the teams have the tendency to call you without any warning and without setting up a meeting on calendar and beacuse of this I pass 3/4 of my day on such useless meetings (which many of them I have to be present at the same time, and sometimes one meeting is in English and one in Italian) without getting any job done and now both my leads are getting frustrated by my delays.

To make it all worse, when I was contacted from the headhunter it was for a mobile developer position, but because of my previous position my employer thought that I could temporary work on one java project because there was scarcity of developers and I could be a nice fit.

I'm not sure if I sum up my situation clearly of it's confused (I'm sorry about that), but tomorrow I plan to call my employer to tell him that I can't take it anymore and something has to change, I just don't know if I should put it on the incompatibility of the two clients, my mental health or both

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    Working for two clients simultaneously is impossible. Having to attend useless meetings kills your productivity thereby causing more mental pressure and burnout
  • 0
    Uhm, 2 is too many already? I have like 6 up my ass all wanting something from done by yesterday…
  • 3
    You got outsourced twice while being paid for one prolly. I personally couldn't live with secretly working for two. Your company asks you to be corrupt. Bastards
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    Ive been in your shoes. List both reasons. They will try to bribe you with an increase in salary, its not worth it. Been there, got the raise, and I almost lost my fiancee, due to the work ethics, 4 clients in parallel, same code base implementation, just different requirements and bugs. You will end up loving one client more than the other or some bias which will get you in trouble with the HR, all because you mental state isnt ready. Before I quit, I made sure to pass pending interviews like im gonna die tomorrow. and the result now, I have a good job, I actually enjoy programming, Im using latest tech stack, Im now handling some AI stuff and dipping my feet into iOS, something I never dreamed of as an Android Dev. 2 words, Move On
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    @jestdotty I understand that the problem is that both clients expect to have him full time so that's the secret. He says "I'm working for you now" but is working for someone else. That's why it's secret
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    @jestdotty wtf, ofcourse you expect a contractor to work 40h for you if you pay him to. Contractors are also people with ethics
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