I used to love my job (working for a fostering agency) but now I hate it due to the comapny becoming money grabbing.

It's sooo unorganised and the kids are not getting the standard of care they should anymore.

This has made me want to leave and I have sent of numerous applications and had a few interviews which I'm waiting to hear back from - but how do I cope in the interim?

Another factor is that my boss is a real muppet and makes my remaining time even more awkward, because she's young and naive (I'm only 24 myself!) - any advice....?

Thanks peeps

you could find a new/better job

If you know where they're going wrong.. why not set up your own agency? Or at least look into it?

Just a thought.. good luck

If you're planning to grin and bear it until you have an offer of a new job then that's all you can really do, I just pray that your skin's thick enough to tough it out!

The real fun begins when you have the new job in the bag and there's nothing your current employers can do to harm your application.

I recall being ill a lot when that happened to me...

There was a case of a guy in the US who worked in the mail room of a political think-tank, he was shocked to find out that his bosses were pushing the most rabid right-wing dogma. As a way of getting revenge he made the most of the fact that he was working in their postroom and shredded all the cheques he came across while he was there...now that deserves a pat on the back.

Thanks everyone those comments have been most useful and I have taken them on board.

I think I need to have thick skin like Carmine says and tough it out - man it's sooooooooo hard though.

Thanks again

Originally posted by Reidstar
Thanks everyone those comments have been most useful and I have taken them on board.

I think I need to have thick skin like Carmine says and tough it out - man it's sooooooooo hard though.

Thanks again

It is, but if you can't find some way in which to wield power over the boss then just roll with the punches and after you've left post a half-eaten kebab through his letterbox in the middle of the night...that one worked for me...

Reidstar, do you think that you did the right thing in telling them that you were applying for other jobs?

I realise that you probably had to take time off for interviews but if you don't manage to get an alternative job then they could make your life very uncomfotable and you might end up in a situation where you are literally driven out.

Usually on application forms you have the option of requesting your perspective employer to only take up references if you are shortlisted.

That kebab idea sounds good as I know where she lives as well...(!)

Mo I haven't told them I'm applying else where. A few close peeps at work know - who I trust that's all.

Hopefully I can roll with the punches.

Roll on 5 o'clock today huh!!

You have to really dislike someone to put a half eaten kebab through their letterbox..
I've never left a kebab half eaten in my life

You a meat lover are you mate?!?! hehehe

I'm thinking about maybe even summat messier than a kebab like a curry or summat - the bitch!

What I'm finding difficult at the mo is to be fine with everyone else I work with - I feel such resentment for where I work now I just wanna do me job and go home without much unnecessary interaction. But still the best things come to those who wait!

Ta for yer comments.

When me and my business partner handed in our notice at the same time it was one of the sweetest moments..

We worked for 6 years in the design department of a printing plant for a huge American company. It was okay for a while but new working practices were gradually brought in that slowly reduced us to the role of battery chickens. So, being English, we rebelled. We hatched a plan to start our own business and moonlighted for several months to build up clients and capital. Eventually one of the faceless gonks who ran the place, called us in for a final final verbal warning and told us he knew we were freelancing at night and that if we knew what was good for us we would stop immediately.

Next morning we walked in and handed in our notices to the same director. Thus wiping out two thirds of his design department. The look on his face was worth a million pounds. He and the other directors refused to speak to us directly for all but one day of our months notice (the most fantastically free time I've ever spent while in employment) THEN on the last day we were summoned to the board room where the directors were forced to ask us to quote them an hourly rate to produce the specialist artwork that they needed!! It took us three seconds to quote them exactly double the rate they quote their customers.

When you do finally get to hand in your notice, do something a bit more painful than a kebab through the letterbox routine. Think it through and, if they really do deserve it, hit em where it hurts.

Mate your story has just made my afternoon.

Revenge shall be mine oh yes it shall!

So are you recruiting at your company - hint hint!! tee hee

What's The Best Way To Deal With A Job You Hate?

Leave (after seeking other work)

I just don't understand!

Why has this conversion moved on to doing some sort of revenge?

Originally posted by Reidstar
Thanks everyone those comments have been most useful and I have taken them on board.

I think I need to have thick skin like Carmine says and tough it out - man it's sooooooooo hard though.

Thanks again

If you're thick skinned, that is. Unfortunately I'm not. I finished up taking my former employer through the internal grievance procedure such was my determination to get justice for their total incompetence.

Of course, I was conveniently made redundant whilst all this was going on. Three months and two jobs later I still have my fat redundancy cheque and a job which is much, much better than the one I lost.

OK, I was very lucky in the end, but what I'm really trying to say is that you must make the decision to get alternative employment and stick to it until you do. I wish you luck.

John, years of pettiness and poor man management led us to feel the way we did. It wasn't revenge as much as repayment.
My business partner was docked two weeks wages when his first son was born. His wife had had terrible difficulties throughout the labour and when the little lad finally arrived my business partner was at the birth.. he finally surfaced from the hospital 10 days later. The company said that because he hadn't called in every day to tell them where he was they had to assume he was AWOL so to speak and that he was lucky to still have a job!! This is despite the fact that I personally had told the print shop manager the situation. He promptly denied knowing that my friends wife was having a baby at all! Hows that for man managemnt eh?
Needless to say that two weeks missing wages was paid back in the over inflated freelance design costs in less than two weeks soon after we left.
Is that revenge? or shall we call it Karma?

Go to a fishing tackle shop and ask for a pint of maggots and put them through her letter box, preferably when shes away on holiday. They will get deep into the carpets and for weeks after she will come home to a black plague of flies.

owdlad.

Originally posted by owdlad
Go to a fishing tackle shop and ask for a pint of maggots and put them through her letter box, preferably when shes away on holiday. They will get deep into the carpets and for weeks after she will come home to a black plague of flies.

owdlad.

Er, blimey that sounds a bit harsh to me!