At the end of this month I will have been at this job for one year. While the philanthropic aspect of it has been nice (opposed to, say, working for Maersk who had a contract to ship arms with the US government), there are aspects of it that I just can no longer stand.
I have never - in my twenty-two years of full time employment - ever had the displeasure of working with someone as wholly rude, mean, gossipy, juvenile and unpleasant as our office admin, who is old enough to be my mother. I'm 39 and I can't believe I am saying this, but for the first few months of my employment here I was bullied.
But, because the workplace is fundamentally broken and dysfunctional in many other ways, I really had little recourse. It's not a humongous surprise that the two people that held this job before me lasted six and eight months, respectively.
Additionally, in my career, I have been lucky enough to work with bosses who were like mentors to me. They encouraged me to go back to school, they trained me on the job, gave me additional responsibilities and promoted me. I am still friends with two of them, and both of them routinely offer to hire me again, except the commute would be horrendous.
At my current job I have a manager who refuses to accept any responsibility, creates ceaseless make work projects, doesn't seem to grasp the basic tenets of accounting processes while at the same time encouraging me to come and talk to her if something I'm doing "doesn't make sense" or "could be done better". My one attempt to do just this resulted in a meeting with my coworker and my manager where she essentially absolved herself of ownership or responsibility, and then ended the meeting by asking us if there was anything she could do to make our lives easier.
So... happy Friday?
Let the job search begin. Again.
Additionally, I smell like curry today and I'm not sure what that's about.
About this time 3 years ago I was in the same state of mind. Jeffrey told me "I've never regretted quitting a job. If it was a good job, you wouldn't be thinking about quitting." He's so smart.
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