I submitted my resignation, and now I'm starting to realize that two weeks was probably more courtesy than necessary.
My lead won't stop micromanaging at all, and after 6 meetings with the director and the VP where I told them they needed to get her to back off a bit, literally nothing has improved. I hit my limit a few weeks ago and gave notice. My last day will be January 12. They asked me what would make me stay. I told them, again, to get the lead to stop hovering over me, and they basically said they tried but she doesn't listen.
And they really did try. I was on calls where they directly told her to stop breathing down everyone's neck. She just... Kept going like normal. No write-up, no consequences, no change whatsoever.
Now they want me to train 4 people on different parts of my job. Normally I'm the person who leaves notes, does walkthroughs, helps in any way I can, all of that. But I wasn't even trained properly myself. I'm still figuring out parts of this role, so I don't know how I'm supposed to teach someone else the "right" way to do things when half the work was thrown at me as I was on my way out.
And this is exactly why people say nobody wants to work. You've got this woman in her early 60s micromanaging the entire department, refusing to change anything, but because she's been there 24 years and is friends with upper management, everyone acts like their hands are tied. Complete nonsense. And on top of that, she messes things up all the time. Like, almost every shift there has to be something she messed up or entered incorrectly, and somehow it becomes my problem to clean up after her. I'm checked out at this point and I don't care anymore.
What would you do? I still have 96 hours of PTO left. Part of me wants to just take them and be done, but that would leave them in a mess as they head into the first part of next month, and I'm not sure I'd feel good about that afterward. WWYD?
My lead won't stop micromanaging at all, and after 6 meetings with the director and the VP where I told them they needed to get her to back off a bit, literally nothing has improved. I hit my limit a few weeks ago and gave notice. My last day will be January 12. They asked me what would make me stay. I told them, again, to get the lead to stop hovering over me, and they basically said they tried but she doesn't listen.
And they really did try. I was on calls where they directly told her to stop breathing down everyone's neck. She just... Kept going like normal. No write-up, no consequences, no change whatsoever.
Now they want me to train 4 people on different parts of my job. Normally I'm the person who leaves notes, does walkthroughs, helps in any way I can, all of that. But I wasn't even trained properly myself. I'm still figuring out parts of this role, so I don't know how I'm supposed to teach someone else the "right" way to do things when half the work was thrown at me as I was on my way out.
And this is exactly why people say nobody wants to work. You've got this woman in her early 60s micromanaging the entire department, refusing to change anything, but because she's been there 24 years and is friends with upper management, everyone acts like their hands are tied. Complete nonsense. And on top of that, she messes things up all the time. Like, almost every shift there has to be something she messed up or entered incorrectly, and somehow it becomes my problem to clean up after her. I'm checked out at this point and I don't care anymore.
What would you do? I still have 96 hours of PTO left. Part of me wants to just take them and be done, but that would leave them in a mess as they head into the first part of next month, and I'm not sure I'd feel good about that afterward. WWYD?