My promotion came with a 10% raise and 30% more stress

Got promoted to team lead last month at a marketing firm in Austin. The title sounds great on LinkedIn, but I'm doing my old job plus scheduling, conflict resolution, and weekly reporting with zero training. Last week alone I spent 14 hours mediating a fight between two designers over a color palette. My old tasks still land on my desk because nobody else knows how to do them. Does anyone else feel like moving up just means you pay for the title with your mental health?

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the_alice21d ago

And that study probably undersells it, because the real issue is nobody tells you how to be a manager, just that you are one now. The skills that got you promoted are the exact ones you have to stop using, but there's no ramp or transition period, it's just sink or swim. I genuinely believe most companies treat the team lead role as a reward instead of a job, so they never bother to build the support system around it.

vera_palmer22d ago

Read a study saying most new managers get zero training and burn out within a year.