Message #70303

[suecsi]

I think I will sit tight - at least if I leave after that I would have been there a full 2 years - and I will leave with my integrity intact, that I at least gave it a chance.

Chances are that there will be a good few months crossover between my old boss and the new one - and the old one will still be doing my performance review in September.  I know he is going to have a good moan about me not doing things as quickly as I should - and I have probably been dragging things out to fill the time, so that is not completely without merit.  I also find that I work much better and more accurately under pressure.  With all this spare time, bizarrely enough I am more prone to forget things.  So I am absolutely dreading the review.  I am making sure to dot all the 'i's and cross the 't's at the moment so he can't pull me up on anything recent.

It began getting much worse since I took two weeks leave (the first extended leave I had taken since I joined over a year before that) in November 2008.  Instead of an agency temp, the daughter of a friend of his covered for me.  At the time, the outsourced accounts company had a book keeper who was a bit scatty - and she was not being very accurate doing the books.  While I was away, things got lost.  They only came to light a few months later when we got chased for big invoices that were not on the books, and it totally messed up the cash flow.  I was blamed - I must have not sent through the invoice.  When I pointed out that the invoice came in when I was away, it was then my fault for not giving clear instructions to the temp (they were written with screenshots and everything).  As far as he was concerned, I was the common denominator and therefore it must be my fault.

Ever since he has second guessed or questioned everything I do (which is frustrating in itself, as he bought me in to make decisions and take things away from him.  If it wasn't for the long notice period, I may have left before now!