Sir Moody - Senior Developer (ie glorified code monkey)

biggest gripe? I am the head of a team of one... that's right I am the Senior Programmer in a team made up of just me...

There used to be 3 of us with me the Senior, a "journeyman" and our Junior - as it is with most development teams in small/mid sized companies we operate under "dead man's shoes" - you only get promoted if the guy above leaves

Since I am quite settled that means in order to become a Senior our standard developer left - due to "budget cut backs" it was decided our Junior would be promoted and then we would abolish the junior role

That's all fine and dandy but the workload remained the same with a developer down - the now promoted Junior realised this wasn't going to change and that technically he had the experience to go "Senior", so he did.

This leaves me with 3 peoples jobs and worse rather than cutting back on work we are actually getting even more than before...

Somehow I am staying on top of it but I have some BLINDINGLY bad mood days from time to time - and with all the new work I am rushing from one job to the next and errors are starting to creep in, I don't really have time to test properly any-more so I am getting quite cavalier with the whole thing...

are we looking for a new developer? no... not even a Junior - it seems the Directors don't see the need since I am keeping up...