Work has been anything but boring lately.  It’s definitely been challenging which makes work only slightly more bearable.  A couple of months ago, I was put in charge of the architectural planning of a huge project at work that impacts our entire platform.  At the time, 20% of my time was to go towards the planning for this project (I’m being borrowed by our platform architect for this), and then implementation end to end would be various people (likely including myself) in our group.  Originally, I was really only building out the "prototypes" for someone, and then someone else was theoretically going to take it from there with the documentation I would provide.  However, somewhere along the line, things changed.  I suddenly was the lead project engineer on this, and doing pretty much everything end to end.  This….is rather overwhelming and much more than one person can do.  I’ve been given 2 of my peers who are to assist me.  I’ve been told to delegate work to them to the point that they go crying to our boss that they have too much to do.  Um, yeah, these are my peers?! I am not okay with the idea of assigning my PEERS work.  I am NOT their BOSS.  However, I will and have asked them to take certain things…

Yet, when I ask if I can come crying that I have too much work to do…the answer is no.  Um. wtf?

I think I’m being tested.  I have to wonder how much of this has to do with the job I’d applied for that would have moved me to the architecture group. I really wonder if they are "testing" me to see if I could do the job or not.