Yeah, but you and I both know you're still going to be holding their hand 30-40% of the time anyway...

That's called "doing management's job"

On the bright side being indispensable makes me impervious to layoffs.

Yes but, I just found out that I'm so competent and trustworthy that since management needs to shuffle the supervisors around and the only way to make it work is to leave me in charge of the team for several hours without a supervisor. So now I'm looking at "we'd love to promote you but you're just to valuable in your current role". It a damned of you do, damned if you don't situation.

Better than 100% at least, I guess.

I wish this was true

You may be able to leverage that for benefits like WFH days or higher raises than rest of team.

Same.
in my case I have soooo much documentation it overwhelms everyone. Every day it's always something new so it keeps growing.

Thats the nice part of hybrid. Min max time at office so more time to chill.

While it’s no guarantee, it’s true more sometimes than not

And it is terrible. If you perform this kind of delegation, you have to expect that the other tasks will be shoved back on the priority list and the overall efficiency will decrease. This busy person will need more time overall for the sum of the tasks, because this kind of parallelization will make it harder to work on one task with focus. Also they will burn out eventually. But hey, that's not management's problem.

I refer to this as "the curse of competence"

Yeah you just get to do the work of 3+ people as others get laid off and the workload shifted to you, until you can't actually manage to keep up and then either get laid off or quit...

Start applying for new jobs. Take your team with you.

I used to think I was an idiot, that everyone around me knew what they were doing and I didn't.

Later I joined the work force and I now I kind of wish I was an idiot because no one seems to know what they're doing and that is existentially dreadful.

On one hand, fair.

On the other hand, this is what the real skill of leadership is - getting people to care.

Yeah that's true. Never said anything about being happy. Or it being sustainable. Sometimes it's all you can do to survive.

much like everyone else is incompetent

Well the team is already WFH, but I am hoping that the job turns into a slight promotion and I will mention that during the next meeting with the department head. Also weighing my options with other parts of the company.

There's openings in other parts of the company, though I do have it good otherwise in my current department so I will have to do some research this weekend. The major limiting factor for me is that I'm region locked due to family constraints. As for taking my team with me....there's only one person I would want to take and he's basically right where he wants to be, so he's not leaving.