So I work for a university. It isn’t my first job, I was laid off and took this after a year of contract and bullshit.
The work itself isn’t challenging but when the opportunity came up it appeared rewarding and fulfilling up until I took the gig.
The problem with the gig is when I took this gig I heard that it was going to be fun and a great team with support & I wouldn’t need to do things I didn’t like doing. Fast forward 8 months and it isn’t anything like that. I have little to no support rather than focusing on new I have been cleaning up problems left and right, because rather than keep up on maintenance they let stuff choke.
I have no support, the one other person that does similar enough work is leaving on maternity, we have no back up for her and her work fell on me.
We have these two designers that I’m supposed to use as resources but They consistently talk negative about who they work with and have created a negative echo chamber for one another.
They aren’t able of designing anything other than post cards. They also have this attitude that they just want to give feedback than provide work. They push back on requests and just provide shitty work; all of this is what it is but attitude is everything. They outright ignore emails and requests by folks they don’t like or aren’t going to get ego strokes. These designers are terrible to deal with, lots of ego.
My boss recognized that they have some major attitude issues and have treated me like shit. She also said she’s trying to figure out how to fix the problem. She said she’s been watching and observing how they act for 6 months and she just doesn’t know how to fix it.
I think it’s kind of terrible that my boss said she’s just observed and not done anything but I respect her for recognizing there is an issue.
My question is what should I do?
Do I keep waiting for things to get better or bounce?