Hey, everyone. I'm going to keep this brief, and include a TL;DR at the bottom for those who don't want to read all this.
I'm a 25yo woman with almost 8 years of secretarial, clerical, and administrative assistant experience. I started working as an assistant secretary when I started college as part of a scholarship, and I actually enjoyed all the paperwork, so I've been doing that ever since.
Right now, I've been working in my current job (essentially as an office coordinator) for a few months short of 3 years. Not even a year in, leadership changed, and my old boss was replaced by a new boss who is ineffectual, overly demanding, and (for lack of a better work) incompetent. I can't get one thing done without being asked to do three more tasks, my workload has doubled under him, and when I have a problem with a coworker, he always sides with the coworker, which pisses me off and increases my workload more.
One of the biggest things pissing me off is that I take home about $20k a year, which isn't awful, but for the amount of work I'm doing, not worth it. I began the process of a position audit, which would have netted a raise had it been successful. However, before we began, he told me he had talked to my old boss, who said my position wouldn't be eligible, unfortunately. BUT, I spoke to my old boss about this, and he said that wasn't the case at all. He had told my new boss that the money would have to come from the department budget, and that was it. So, I quickly realized that my new boss had LIED about the reason for not getting a raise, or even for beginning the process. Ever since then, I've hated him.
Recently, things have gotten worse. I'm burned out on a job I once loved, which is making me miss little things which affect my coworkers, something that I don't want them to deal with. I'm also suicidal, and back to self-harming. I'm applying for every open position at this company (since I really love the company) but no dice.
I live paycheck-to-paycheck, so I'm flat broke, but I'm desperate to quit this job before it kills me. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? Feel free to ask questions if needed.
Thank you!
TL;DR: Boss sucks, job makes me nuts, I'm broke and need to quit. How do I do it?
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