Rational Thought Be Damned
I plan to quit my job tomorrow.
No, I don't have another one lined up. Yes, I will give them two weeks' notice. No, this is not the best choice. It is the choice I feel is available.
I mentioned that I was considering finding some time between deployments to take a week off. My supervisor said, "No." He did not deny me a specific date range. He simply said I can't take vacation. I expressed to him that taking vacation or not is not a negotiable item. Specific dates we can discuss, but I need the time to decompress.
If I don't take time off, I'll call him up one morning and tell him where to shove this unholy job. Alternately, I might stand up in the middle of the day and show him my favorite finger on the way out. I explained these things to him. I've worked here for over a year straight without a vacation. I've been shift-felxible and supported his team and his uncommunicative, disorganized, micromanaging ass. I've had all I can stand of it and I'm so close to a complete breakdown that I want to lose 40 hours of pay to have some time off.
He seems to think that because he's been accommodating with my shift (which he has on many occasions for different reasons) that I don't deserve vacation. He says he understands all my points. I told him he doesn't or he wouldn't have denied me straight out of the gate. I expressed to him that if her truly understood he wouldn't treat his team the way he does; he would change things so we're not pulling our hair out and running screaming from the building.
I need to get a few things straight in my head, and then tomorrow I give notice. Right now I'm targeting Thursday, November 19th, as my last day. I will spend the next couple of weeks looking for something else.
Wish me luck.
No, I don't have another one lined up. Yes, I will give them two weeks' notice. No, this is not the best choice. It is the choice I feel is available.
I mentioned that I was considering finding some time between deployments to take a week off. My supervisor said, "No." He did not deny me a specific date range. He simply said I can't take vacation. I expressed to him that taking vacation or not is not a negotiable item. Specific dates we can discuss, but I need the time to decompress.
If I don't take time off, I'll call him up one morning and tell him where to shove this unholy job. Alternately, I might stand up in the middle of the day and show him my favorite finger on the way out. I explained these things to him. I've worked here for over a year straight without a vacation. I've been shift-felxible and supported his team and his uncommunicative, disorganized, micromanaging ass. I've had all I can stand of it and I'm so close to a complete breakdown that I want to lose 40 hours of pay to have some time off.
He seems to think that because he's been accommodating with my shift (which he has on many occasions for different reasons) that I don't deserve vacation. He says he understands all my points. I told him he doesn't or he wouldn't have denied me straight out of the gate. I expressed to him that if her truly understood he wouldn't treat his team the way he does; he would change things so we're not pulling our hair out and running screaming from the building.
I need to get a few things straight in my head, and then tomorrow I give notice. Right now I'm targeting Thursday, November 19th, as my last day. I will spend the next couple of weeks looking for something else.
Wish me luck.