This is from Forbes:

"If you are given a work assignment you don’t like, talk with your manager to get perspective on why you were given that task. Unless it’s a habitual problem or you feel there is favoritism or discrimination, it’s best to talk with your manager first, says Christy Hopkins, a human resources consultant for Fit Small Business."

My issue isn't about a work assignment I don't like -- it is about a habitual problem.

It's about a work assignment -- and the structure of that assignment (for our entire group) --- taking a whole week to complete for all of us. My issue is that this is far too long, and it takes away valuable time from doing our real jobs.

For example, after the meeting with the CEO, my boss's boss called me into his office to talk about the issue I have.

I point blank told him: I was hired as a website strategist, not as a website traffic analyst. We're not spending enough time on strategy, is what I said.

Because of this one task that takes a whole week (we're actually given EIGHT business days to complete this one task), and because client meetings to review this completed task are done during the following week, it turns out we really only work on website strategy, what we are hired to do, for just two weeks of the month.

That is ridiculous in my professional opinion. I have never seen such a ridiculous process.

We should be spending FAR more time on client strategy, not on client reporting, which is what takes a full week, or 8 business days, to complete.

I told HR that because I am spending SO much time on writing these client reports, I am getting completely burnt out on the job and want to leave. I also told her that in my experience, which is eight years in the field, I had seen reports that are TWO pages long, not EIGHT pages like ours are.

Our reports are 8 pages of website analysis. I have to write 8-9 of these client reports a month! Every single month.