I don't mean to stroke egos, but I've realized that there are a good number of members here at the forum that are smart people and I ask of them some advice on my job situation. If you have the patience to read all of this, I very very much appreciate it and thank you endlessly.
I'm not going to go into detailed specifics because they don't really apply.
I'm quitting because I feel a great deal of igornace at my job, it's always been there, but up until now it has never seeped into my dept. You see I work as a skilled laborer at a very small company (about 14 workers). Each dept. completely relies on the knowledge of the head of that dept to run well. The owner/boss does NOT know how to use machinery, only knows how to bring clients and knows what needs to get done, but not how to get it done. I've worked a total of 6years at my job. I've started doing a certain job but thru the years, I learned to do other thing, then everything in my department and I was promoted to head of my dept about 4 years ago.
I was in charge of 2 people, both have been with me since the beginning, both women (don't know if that's relevant). Both women did their jobs in an excellent manner, I have ZERO complaints, they've learned the trade over the 6years here, one of them has been in the business for about 12 years and knows how to work the machinery very well.
Well one of my workers left about a year ago, she got pregnant and ended up staying at home, no biggie because the other worker, the more expeirenced one, stayed and is producing the same amount of work with no issues or complaints.
2 months ago, a young girl (let's call her Sara, 21yro) started working in the main office with my boss. My boss has known Sara since sara was 12, Sara is my boss' little sweet heart and has trusted her with the position of assistant to my boss. She messes up a lot but that's not the issue. The issue is that Sara has a boyfriend whom Sara has tried to work into my department. Let's call the boyfriend Tom. Tom is 26 and is a waiter. He has been a waiter for 9 years.
Tom was introduced to us a month ago and we were told that he was going to "help out" and only work a few hours because his waiter job doesn't cut Sara and Tom's bills. I wasn't crazy about it because we've had "summer job" workers during school summers and all the do is mess up the machinery, but I didn't really have a choice this time. I guess I had to be ok with it.
2 weeks pass and we start noticing change. The jobs that my boss gave for me to carry out, Sara was now giving to Tom bypassing me all together. I told my boss and she told me that she wanted Tom to learn the dept. I told her that Tom was barely starting and that he should gain experience before fooling around with $20,000 machines but I was sort of ignored and told that he was under my supervision.
2 more weeks have passed and they have given more responsibility to Tom and he is now trying to learn what I do. It's only a matter of time till my boss commands me to teach him what I do. The guy can't cut it, and I've told my boss but she turns a deaf ear and just tells me to teach him. He ruins jobs that we have to fix, he's costed the company money but for some reason that falls on deaf ears.
No one taught me, I learned my business all by myself, made mistakes, but I learned over the YEARS and I believe I earned my place and my salary.
Now we get my boss's sweetheart's waiter boyfriend in my dept and the way things are looking, in a few months he'll be considered at this company the same as me and above my worker who has 12yrs of experience.
I think it's very unfair that if my department is to grow, it is to be done with unskilled and unjustly-favored labor. It takes into no consideration job experience and job ethics.
So I'm leaving before I have to show this heavily favored dick head my job and risk my job security. More so, I can't work for a boss that uncommunicative and turns a deaf ear to experienced reason and just favors her little sweetheart's wishes and little sweetheart's personal interests. I know if I leave, my worker will leave, she's told me and she is more than qualified to get a job somewhere else. I have a job interview next Wed. which I am very confident I can land.
So I ask you guys for advice. Am I doing the right thing? Am I missing something? Am I taking uncorrect steps in leaving? I feel looked over and undervalued if they think any ol' guy can come in and learn my trade in a few months. I say that because they are making me teach him adavnced things that you need to know the fundamentals to do know and do correctly.
Once I leave, the work load of the entire dept will be on Tom's shoulders. He knows about 20% of what he should to run the dept correctly so I know the dept won't run right and she'll have to get more help and start from square one with someone that has no experience. I think if Tom is to be big dog in my dept, he should earn it, people get paid well doing what we do because they know their jobs, not because of brown nosing girlfriends.
help me out guys.......
I'm not going to go into detailed specifics because they don't really apply.
I'm quitting because I feel a great deal of igornace at my job, it's always been there, but up until now it has never seeped into my dept. You see I work as a skilled laborer at a very small company (about 14 workers). Each dept. completely relies on the knowledge of the head of that dept to run well. The owner/boss does NOT know how to use machinery, only knows how to bring clients and knows what needs to get done, but not how to get it done. I've worked a total of 6years at my job. I've started doing a certain job but thru the years, I learned to do other thing, then everything in my department and I was promoted to head of my dept about 4 years ago.
I was in charge of 2 people, both have been with me since the beginning, both women (don't know if that's relevant). Both women did their jobs in an excellent manner, I have ZERO complaints, they've learned the trade over the 6years here, one of them has been in the business for about 12 years and knows how to work the machinery very well.
Well one of my workers left about a year ago, she got pregnant and ended up staying at home, no biggie because the other worker, the more expeirenced one, stayed and is producing the same amount of work with no issues or complaints.
2 months ago, a young girl (let's call her Sara, 21yro) started working in the main office with my boss. My boss has known Sara since sara was 12, Sara is my boss' little sweet heart and has trusted her with the position of assistant to my boss. She messes up a lot but that's not the issue. The issue is that Sara has a boyfriend whom Sara has tried to work into my department. Let's call the boyfriend Tom. Tom is 26 and is a waiter. He has been a waiter for 9 years.
Tom was introduced to us a month ago and we were told that he was going to "help out" and only work a few hours because his waiter job doesn't cut Sara and Tom's bills. I wasn't crazy about it because we've had "summer job" workers during school summers and all the do is mess up the machinery, but I didn't really have a choice this time. I guess I had to be ok with it.
2 weeks pass and we start noticing change. The jobs that my boss gave for me to carry out, Sara was now giving to Tom bypassing me all together. I told my boss and she told me that she wanted Tom to learn the dept. I told her that Tom was barely starting and that he should gain experience before fooling around with $20,000 machines but I was sort of ignored and told that he was under my supervision.
2 more weeks have passed and they have given more responsibility to Tom and he is now trying to learn what I do. It's only a matter of time till my boss commands me to teach him what I do. The guy can't cut it, and I've told my boss but she turns a deaf ear and just tells me to teach him. He ruins jobs that we have to fix, he's costed the company money but for some reason that falls on deaf ears.
No one taught me, I learned my business all by myself, made mistakes, but I learned over the YEARS and I believe I earned my place and my salary.
Now we get my boss's sweetheart's waiter boyfriend in my dept and the way things are looking, in a few months he'll be considered at this company the same as me and above my worker who has 12yrs of experience.
I think it's very unfair that if my department is to grow, it is to be done with unskilled and unjustly-favored labor. It takes into no consideration job experience and job ethics.
So I'm leaving before I have to show this heavily favored dick head my job and risk my job security. More so, I can't work for a boss that uncommunicative and turns a deaf ear to experienced reason and just favors her little sweetheart's wishes and little sweetheart's personal interests. I know if I leave, my worker will leave, she's told me and she is more than qualified to get a job somewhere else. I have a job interview next Wed. which I am very confident I can land.
So I ask you guys for advice. Am I doing the right thing? Am I missing something? Am I taking uncorrect steps in leaving? I feel looked over and undervalued if they think any ol' guy can come in and learn my trade in a few months. I say that because they are making me teach him adavnced things that you need to know the fundamentals to do know and do correctly.
Once I leave, the work load of the entire dept will be on Tom's shoulders. He knows about 20% of what he should to run the dept correctly so I know the dept won't run right and she'll have to get more help and start from square one with someone that has no experience. I think if Tom is to be big dog in my dept, he should earn it, people get paid well doing what we do because they know their jobs, not because of brown nosing girlfriends.
help me out guys.......
