I started in at my current job in 2015 after the online retailer I worked for left the county once their tax break expired. It was a bit of a shitshow from the start as I was hired for data entry and coverage at the front desk (in another building which should've been a clue to the shitshow). My second morning I received a call from my then boss that i was going to work at the front desk full-time. Whatever, I needed a job.
After five years of, I transferred departments because there wasn't any growth in the front desk and at the at most 3% they gave out in raises – it would've taken 10 years to get back to what I was making when the distribution center closed. It was a lateral move but it got me into a better department and a new boss. I got very little training from the person I was taking over for and almost three months after I had transferred departments I was still being made to provide coverage for the front desk (the last straw was when i was made to stay until 8pm instead of someone in the department.) That boss crossed all boundaries and didn't respect my personal time because i was the only unmarried person and didn't have children. Finally once the pandemic started to shut things down I was able to just do the one job I was supposed to do.
The mental health center I work for has in the last three years qualified for a federal program that allowed them to increase our pay and six years in, I was finally making more than I was at the distribution center. Last July I was looking through our job postings and saw that they were starting new front desk staff 15 cents more than I was currently making. I went digging and eventually realized they'd left roughly 5 of us in a different role than the other front desk/support staff and no one seemed to think that was bs but me apparently.
After a minor mental breakdown, my current supervisor suggested I apply for a position under her that paid better and had more room for growth. It got off to a little bit of a rough start because I ended up with a boot on my foot for a couple of months. On top of that, the coworker that was “training” is either barely computer literate and/or the most passive aggressive weaponized incompetence boomer I've ever met. It was very clear it was not working but I was basically told to just let M do whatever she wants because it's easier.
My department has a van we're supposed to have access to for transportation but M thinks it's her personal vehicle and refuses to be flexible with the schedule. This wouldn't have been a problem except I drove a compact (not a great people mover) while she had a van that was actually hers. Supervisor hasn't done anything to make sure resources are being used properly but seems shocked that I can't grow my caseload.
I'm in a “professional” position that has training I've never been given while my niece worked in our summer program and was given more training than I've had in a year. Before she was my supervisor I would have considered her a friend and that was my mistake for not changing the dynamic in my brain as our relationship changed. She's got a strong personality that always made her a bad bitch, but apparently she's a negative connotation bitch. Fun passive things she's done recently include letting my check get shorted 18 hours because I forgot to enter my time and clearly I had spare time – my stepdad had passed away less than a month before and I was mourning but sure teach me a lesson.
It took them two years to fire the person I replaced so I've probably got another year at least. My positive annual reviews every other year should buy me some rope too because there's nothing to fire me for and they're going to have to fire me because I'm not quitting. I've got a word document with all the things I would love to share in an exit interview.