Should I find a new job?

Asked by chelle21689 (7907) December 16th, 2017 from iPhone

Some of you know the background of my workplace. New leadership everywhere from the new president from letting my boss and boss’s boss go. New ideas, new vision, it’s all about the damn future. Yet all these creative ideas and plans coming from the higher up people have no idea how it affects us “little people”.

My job was always a two-person job where I’m working on projects, recruiting and interviewing, onboarding and terminating, inputting that information as well as benefits. I handle new hires and each semester a bunch of new hires from the part-time faculty side, monthly orientations, issue hundreds of contracts for the new semester for faculty, and on top of all this I handle the phones, walk-ins, invoices, general questions, filing and scanning.

This was tolerable since I found a way for a balance and tried to have student workers. It doesn’t always workout since they only work a 3–8 hours a week and go home during breaks for even a month at a time during busy seasons.

On top of all this, my workload has increased with my boss handing me more to do with another stupid project from the Board. Also we are acquiring another organization so I have a new set of people to onboard, track, etc. He KNOWS we are understaffed and before him we have always tried to hire more help but always get shot down with the requested position yet you see all these new VPs making almost double than the previous one, merit increases, and other people with new positions. We’ve tried and tried. My boss submitted a request twice but nothing. I think most of my new workload probably isn’t my boss’ fault but comes from upstairs. I think all my other coworkers are busy but I don’t know if their workload is as crazy as mine.

He just tells me to try to utilize the students as much as possible. Doesn’t help when they go home and I have no help.

I’ve began to really really hate my job and the hours I put in. I hate I can’t get anything done when I’m handling the constant interruptions from having to be the face of the department. I hate it every day, I don’t remember hating this job until new leaders came in throwing any new idea at us.

I talked to my coworker and to see how she was handling the new bosses too. I didn’t say anything and let her talk and she was basically venting out the same fact frustrations I have only her environment is worse because she kinda works with the president. Our president is so fake nice. Students love her but she’s so fake behind doors and will talk so much stuff about people.

It’s to the point where I think I want to leave. I can’t get anything done and everything is important. All the stuff that isn’t important like scanning, filing, copying, etc. is being piled up because of all my other priorities increasing.

I want to leave but I am in school for free tuition and already started. I want my degree but it will be another two years before I finish. A part of me is thinking my health is more important but I want to finish school. A part of me is scared of starting somewhere new again. I wonder if maybe things will get better but it hasn’t. Everything is completely different.