Bad management is driving the company I work for into the ground. We're understaffed and so doing more work than ever, in return for a real-terms pay cut. It's affecting the basic functioning, even customers are now leaving feedback explicitly questioning the apparent staffing issue. Still, middle management is blind to this and keeps telling us we just need to work harder and “smile more” because “staff looking like they don't want to be there will not be tolerated.”
I decided it's just not worth it recently and started casually job hunting but to be honest the job takes up too much of my energy, which is already limited, thank you ADHD, and the job hunt is glacial. Now I've got a big trip coming up that's stressful and I'm tempted to just walk in today or tomorrow and hand in my notice so I can have a nice weekend to prepare for my trip, then come back and get straight to work job hunting full-time and hopefully find something better.
But then it feels impulsive and maybe unwise to leave without a guaranteed offer (although I'm not short for money) and also I'm conflicted because I like the team I work with a lot and then the ADHD stops me managing my emotions properly so this decision is just EXCRUCIATING and I don't know what to do!