I’ve been losing sleep over work. Not things that I have left undone, or problems left unsolved, but larger problems. Kip, my boss, is leaving at the end of the week. He’s one of the founders of the company, and is pretty much singlehandedly responsible for any success managed since it was bought by Tristate. He keeps the trains running on time, so to speak. He has also insulated me from much of the troubles that come out of the New York office. With him gone, all of that will be falling on me. I’m not looking to hang around for that.
I had a talk with our CEO today, he was wondering of I would like to take on a greater role in Connecticut operations. It isn’t worth the money. They’ve been trying to get me to work fewer hours for a while now, about as subtly as they can manage. They don’t want me doing customer service anymore, mainly because they’re already paying other people to do that. I started doing it because they weren’t. This very morning I got a call from a client who said she was hung up on while talking to the main office. Not helpful.
On top of that, we are paying half of what our biggest competitor pays. Trying to get clients in an environment like this is harder than selling refrigerators to Eskimos. My commission so far this year is about what I have made on good weeks in the past.
The worst part is that I was really hoping to stay with this job for some time. I’m not in a position to fix it, and I’m not going down with the ship. I really enjoyed working with Kip.
Ugh. I hate job searching.