I actually did it. in 2019 Amazing Stories!

Guyyyyssss last night was a doozy. I ended up having a panic attack trying to imagine me taking over M’s duties in the event he never comes back to work. I barely made it through the work day yesterday, broke down during therapy last night and walked her (therapist) through the 2 week long tale, and she basically agreed the entire saga has been suspicious since the alleged skull fracture and lack of plane ticket/lodging purchases for a trip he was all set to go on. I ended up taking my dog for a 2ish hour drive last night to clear my mind because sleeping was out of the question.

During the drive I pretty much determined that my time is up at the company. My head is not right, and the stress of feeling like shady things are going on on top of being told that I’m going to be needing to learn M’s job has me in a really bad place.

So last night at 1:30am, I sent a 3 weeks notice email to Bossman, bossman’s Mom, bossman’s mom’s Bestie, and my coworkers stating my last day of employment would be 3 weeks from now, Oct 1st. I mentioned this would get us through the laboratory’s end of fiscal year (Sep 30) and provide for 3 weeks worth or training/transition time. I told them my apartment lease was up for renewal and I’ve decided not to renew and move back to Wisconsin to be closer to family. I did not want to tell them I got another job because I figured they would try to talk me out of it. At this point I’m not even interested in a raise because I’m literally not doing M’s job. M’s job is a punching bag job. He’s the main point of contact on all of our subcontracts who is constantly getting beat up via phone calls and emails from subcontractors over anything and everything. Everything that Bossman doesn’t want to handle himself he deflects onto M. M holds all of the monthly and yearly company financial meetings and is the lead speaker/question answerer at all those meetings. I am the behind-the-scenes person who gathers the data for him and verify’s it’s accuracy. He presents. He consistently gets beat up by Bossman’s mom over “Why did we spent $11 on office supplies on the 11th?!” when $2500 in “business entertainment” expenses at a VIP gentlemens club in Key West, FL by one of her other sons gets overlooked. You need a person with good social skills to be able to verbally maneuver and take the punches for that job.

I also used Wisconsin/family as my reasoning because I don’t want to make enemies yet. I’m going to need references most likely in the future. I also am scared to death that if I piss them off, they are going to try to find a way to not pay out my huge PTO balance. I’m not sure if they are “legally” required to pay it out, but they always have in the past. But it’s rare that employees have as high of a balance as I do when they terminate. M and A both also have high balances, but M’s is starting to slowly lessen.

I took today off because A) I legit could not sleep last night and B ) I need them to have a day for that to sink in. I wasn’t about to show up to work this morning and then have Bossman come in 5 mins behind me and be like “so did you get my email from a few hours ago?” And if you’re wondering…Based off how the conversation went when I pulled up the job posting yesterday and confronted Bossman about it, I decided it wouldn’t be possible to hold this conversation in person.

Right now I’m focusing on getting my mind right. I am good enough money-wise to be fine for a few months. Even though I am voluntarily quitting, I can still apply for unemployment IF I can prove that illegal happenings have been reoccurring within the workplace. I can prove that with bank statements and credit card statements. So I don’t want to get nasty with them just yet. I have planning to do. I’ve never been on unemployment, so it’s not like I make going on unemployment a habit. I’ve been with this company for 5 years and I’m over it.

I’ll be SUPER interested if M is back in the office on Wednesday and how pissed off A is going to be. With M and Me out, she’s going to be a one woman show until they find a replacement. I haven’t checked my email yet to see if anyone responded to my notice. But, it needed to be done.