I’ve been in situations with bad bosses a few times over the years, and so I understand how much it affects life in these circumstances. It overshadowed everything for me.

After a reorganisation, I found myself working for a guy who was being supportive and nice to my face, but behind the scenes was throwing me under the bus at every opportunity. It took me a while to work it out. As result of his duplicity, I had a very, very uncomfortable time in his team. I’d decided I couldn’t stand it another week, and so I wrote my resignation with the intention of handing it in at the end of the week. As luck would have it, our senior manager called me into his office just before the end of the week and told me that I was being moved to another role in another team. Had this not have happened I would have just walked, as planned.

I guess it’s life really, there’s good and bad in everything. A few years later, after yet another reorganisation, I found myself in a similar situation again. Life was just a misery. On this occasion I did resign. It turned out to be for the best.

Jeff.