a little bird told me

Oh and also my heart-felt thanks to my colleague who went and told my boss that I was unhappy with all this. Communication is what you need. So then my boss comes into my room and just tells me about all the good that will come of my doing this, which dioesn't allievate the workload issues. Yes maybe so, I will become a star, lol, but that doesn't help me do the job any better and what with output measurement, our ability to organise a conference is not going to rate all that highly!
So my reward for my hardwork appears to be the opportunity for more hard work. Let that be a lesson to us all.