[seesaw]

So it's Monday, and Mondays generally suck, but whatever.

So I start the day with a senior leadership meeting, which is basically mostly a bunch of idiots talking about budgeting issues, and they're idiots making excuses for why we are in such a deficit. I brought up some relevant points, but it was also just budgeting for dummies time.

Then we had a departmental meeting, and the focus was to talk about our new department head who starts in April, that I could give a **** about, since I was overlooked to hire her (and it's not that I mind I didn't get the job, I mind that I didn't even get a no thank you letter after my interview-as an internal candidate). Well, her coming on board is going to do nothing to help us reach our impossible goals by the end of the year, so I try to be the realist and redirect the conversation to my colleague's plan that she has hatched to get us to meet our goals. And my idiot colleagues all keep going to discussions about future years, etc., and I keep saying "WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THIS YEAR." I swear the meeting is so frustrating talking to a bunch of dimwits who should never have been hired for their positions.

One of them is my boss's ex-girlfriend, whom he had an affair with and then hired and gave her a much higher salary and title than she deserved and reports to me, so I have to deal with her. His current girlfriend (mind you, he's married) isn't a total idiot but she's not trained to deal with the level of management she's been placed at, so she's failing miserably. The other two, were both hired because the board of directors know them a little, but neither have experience actually doing this job, so they're just sitting around, going to lunches, and making more money than me, while I bring in more money than them.

And then there's our useless consultant who talks down to me all the time like I'm so 20 year old entry level worker.

I get respect from very few other people at this place. Most of the ones who respect me are the ones who listen to me and see that what I predict actually happens because I know what I'm talking about and know that I am very experienced and deliver results.

Our CFO is a damn moron who can't put 2 + 2 together and know it's 4. And yet he condescends to tell me I'll be held accountable for my projections. Well, duh, that's why I'm a department head, because I know how to project accurate forecasts, duh!

I don't know how much longer I can stand working in this environment. It is so depressing and aggravating that I spent the whole weekend in bed.

I don't even want to work with this new VP because I'm not in a job that is leading to any growth. I don't need any mentoring or coaching for this job, I've been doing it for years and well. I need to be promoted to the next level.

I have many job prospects though. The LA job wants to check my references, which is close to the last step before an offer. I just had a great interview with a job in D.C., and I have some other opportunities that I'm applying for.

I just don't know how much longer I can not look at these people in their faces and tell them what idiots they are.

Lord, help me.

How do I keep my mouth shut?

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[seesaw]

Well, good news, LA job got my references and immediately started calling them. That's a very good sign. I'm praying for an offer before the end of the week. I have got to get out of here.

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[Yzen]

I hope you get an offer soon!

[Nammu]

Hope you get multiple offers and that the idiots will miss you when you leave and they relize what idiots they were not promoting you.

[seesaw]

The sad thing is that they won't even care that I'm leaving. There is no loyalty from employers. They won't give two shits that I'm leaving or why. And there is probably nothing I can do about it.

[reb569]

Good luck! I hope all goes well and you get the new job!

I wish I could give you better advice since you have helped me a lot on my other thread, but since I don't exactly have much experience in this area I will say what I do know:

My family used to give me so much crap about me not respecting authority figures and this is exactly why. It seems like most so called "authority" are much less intelligent and less resilient than people like us who have had to struggle our whole lives due to either MI, being raised in poverty, or any other reason that puts people at a disadvantage in life, meanwhile the people who have money run things they don't know how to run because they inherited a bunch of money from mommy and daddy or had their families help them get in the door the easy way and never had to struggle so they come in thinking they are better than us because they have more money and power than us and use us as tools rather than treat us with the respect we deserve.

I say **** them. You are a nice intelligent person who deserves better.

[seesaw]

I honestly don't have issues with authority. I have no problem reporting a supervisor, etc., but I also know that the CEO and I, aren't that far apart in amount of experience and knowledge of what we are doing. And also, I believe that everyone deserves respect, regardless of their level or job function. Everyone serves a purpose in the organization.

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[leejosepho]

I find you and your abilities amazing, and I can definitely identify with you a bit and even though my own abilities are not as great. You can clearly see things as they are and then know what could be done in relation to them, and then you can also somehow wear all things loosely enough to keep pressing on in spite of possibly being the only one there who even has a clue!

I hope your new possibilities come about for you, and I encourage you to try to keep looking past the alligators to help keep your focus on the swamp in the meantime!

[hvert]

Good luck, I hope that offer comes through -- your current boss sounds like a trainwreck!

[seesaw]

It's not even 9am and my co-worker has sent me a *****y email because she went ahead and did something that affects my team and didn't talk to me about it, and I asked her to give me some time to review it before making the final changes. And because I asked her a simple question about the implications of one of the changes.

BIOTCH.

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[TishaBuv]

Just save the emails for when heads roll to prove your case. You can only do your best and defend yourself against those you can't control.

[seesaw]

Originally Posted by TishaBuv

Just save the emails for when heads roll to prove your case. You can only do your best and defend yourself against those you can't control.

I have been doing that.

Oh man, I commend you for putting up with those morons as much as you are.

I also commend you for being a much more honorable person than I, because while I won't admit to what I would likely do if faced with a similar situation, I will say that it would certainly be something you wouldn't find ethical

If anybody should be CEO of that company, you should.

Unfortunately, it's the idiots who are high on power that run things and not the people who would actually be good at it doing so. I don't respect most authority figures for that very reason; I can't respect somebody weaker or less intelligent than myself just because they wield authority. If anything, I pretend to respect said authority figures only when it benefits me.

Anyways, enough about my insecurities. I wish you the best!