[Coffee.]

We need to catch up. I've been jumping from grant-funded temp job to grant-funded temp job throughout the pandemic because our country is a hellscape that won't fund public health. It's horrible, not your fault, not just happening to you...it's the entire system failing workers and the public.

Something I've had to really internalize is that the responsibilities that get dropped because of an agency's staffing problems are NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY. Even if that work naturally would shift from your coworker to you, you're not obliged to work more than the hours you committed to. If you're being asked to work more, you have the right to say no. And even more...what are they going to do, fire you? You're temporary, and you're keeping them afloat!

I'm so sorry you're going through this. Let me know if you're job hunting and I cans end anything I see your way.