Get me out of here

I have got to get out of here. I know that switching jobs in this economy is going to be tough, but I am ready. I will give you just a few examples of why I need to leave.

1. My boss often goes on power trips. She calls me and another coworker into her office by yelling our names and expecting us to come into her office as opposed to her either calling us on the phone or walking over to our desks herself. It’s so demeaning. She also has me and a coworker perform tasks that she could do in less time than it takes to tell us what exactly she wants done. An example? She wanted one column of numbers from a five column Excel spreadsheet. She gave me vague instructions over email of what she wanted and frankly, I was scratching my head because she couldn’t POSSIBLY want me to simply delete four columns from the spreadsheet and send it back to her, right? But oh yes, that’s what she wanted me to do. Ridonkulous.

It’s like managers who call to their secretaries to get X on the phone because they are too lazy to do it themselves or because they want to seem more important. Ugh.

2. Recently, our head office said that we could hire two people in our division- one permanent position and another a summer intern. I sat in on a meeting with my boss and another coworker while they discussed how great it will be to get more help around the office. My mouth is on the ground because I have consistently told my boss that I would like more work and she doesn’t have any for me.* So why are we hiring more people in our division when other divisions are DESPERATE for employees? How are these people going to be happy employees if there is no work for them to do? The summer intern is not going to want to come back if s/he has a bad experience. Just because we CAN hire someone doesn’t mean that we should. It’s this type of mentality that pisses me off.

3. My boss decided to go ahead with hiring for the permanent position despite my objections (she is also still working on the summer intern position). The head office then came back and said that we would have to interview and get paperwork to them by the following day. REALLY? We had only TWO referrals and I was the person stuck with calling them to tell them a few things about the job and then see if they wanted to interview in ONE HOUR. What company does this? How professional does this look if you are calling people up for a job interview- and they never even knew the job existed??? The whole thing just boggled my mind. Only one person referred was able to interview with us. He was actually pretty good, but what if the person that we interviewed was awful? Would my boss have said to hire him just to get another body in the door? That’s not how you find good employees!!

This place is so ridonkulous that I am losing my sanity. I need to get out of here before I start to think that this is normal. I have given this place almost three years of my life and it is time to move on to BETTER things. I just have to figure out what those better things are…..

*Note: I would usually take the lack of work as a sign that my boss either didn’t like me or didn’t think that I could do the work, but I received the highest ratings that you can get on my annual review so it is certainly not the case.