[PsychNitrous]

I'm feeling like I've been so used at my current (soon to be past) job. It hasn't gone well since the beginning. I've struggled to get hours, and as an independent contractor I don't make money unless I'm working. I can't pay my bills, I can't save any money to move, I can't do anything. So I've been looking, and I was offered a new job yesterday.

I still hadn't quite decided how or when to tell my employer that I was quitting, until today. I had to go in for a meeting (a non-billable meeting), and finally figured out why I got the job in the first place. I was just there for the owner to dump her problems on!! When I got there today, she said she couldn't give me any more clients in a program we run until I was caught up on the ones I have. This program was supposed to be my money maker, since it pays $100 an hour and I was told I'd have a full caseload pretty much immediately. Right now I have 2 clients. The only one with anything not caught up on is the first one I got. Her file was behind by almost 2 weeks when it was given to me. The problem then was that my employer couldn't contact the client. I haven't been able to contact her either, and was told I had to try for 90 days before I could pass the file on.

So, being behind in this case is in no way my fault. But I'm being punished for it? This is pure BS in my eyes. I'm so thankful that I was offered this new job yesterday, but it makes me so angry to feel that I've been used since being given this job. It hurts, and it's making me really anxious to email my resignation. I just can't believe that I've been treated like this, especially by someone I used to admire and respect.

That sounds like a frustrating job situation to be in! I'm glad you have found other employment, and I hope it goes better than this place.

[Angelique67]

Hi, PN, I'm really glad to hear you've gotten a job offer. Hopefully it will be a much healthier environment than the one you're leaving.

[PsychNitrous]

Thanks for the support everyone. I did email my employer this afternoon, and said that I'm terminating my employment immediately because I can't support myself and see no benefit to staying. No response yet. I'm a little afraid of that.

[PsychNitrous]

So, a bit of an update and more venting. I had one last client scheduled this morning, so I came in to tell her that I'm leaving. Plus I had to get all my stuff from my office. When I got here, my "mentor" (one of the senior employees) came in to talk to me about my email. She claimed she'd been trying to get a hold of me (bull, no one has tried to get in touch with me in any way since last week) about how I can't just quit, because I'm in a contract. Ultimately, the conversation came down to how the senior partners "understand" where I'm coming from and have agreed to let me out of my contract, as long as I come in to sign a paper saying that we all agree to it. Not sure I really want to, but I'm also unsure how much damage to me professionally and/or legally they can do if I don't come back and sign the paper. So I've pretty much been OK'd to leave, though I was hoping I'd be able to slip in and out this morning, get my stuff, talk to my client, and be done. They made that impossible, though. Someone came in my office last week and took my licenses off the wall, and they were in my "mentor's" office until I got here.

So, it's basically over here, but I am just shaking with rage and anxiety and frustration now. I'm so angry over how they handled my request to quit. No one bothered to reply to my email, or try to contact me by phone or email or anything. I heard nothing until my "mentor" bombarded me with this today. And the nerve to lie to my face that she'd been trying to get a hold of me. Later in the conversation she said it seemed like I was mad at her. No ****, you just lied to me. That's one of my biggest pet peeves. And on top of all this bullcrap, I just feel so much more disrespected today. I know it's a fairly minor thing that set me off, and I accept that, but I'm just so angry with how I've been treated here. While packing my things this morning, I noticed again that one of my little tins I have for decoration was moved and put together wrong. When closed, it looks like a character from a cartoon. I've had this tin in here since I started, full of hard candies for me and my clients. I haven't eaten any. This morning there were 3 left. I wouldn't mind sharing with the person who I share the office with, if he'd bothered asking me or saying something about it. But no, he never said a word about using any of the things I brought in. He just took. And this is a solid-colored tin. The only way to have known there was anything in it was to pick it up and open it.

I'm counting the minutes at this point. Soon I will be done for the day and can finally get out of this hell hole. I'm just so angry and I wish I never had to go through any of this crap.