I'm a legal PA/secretary been in a new job almost 5 months now. Great on paper lovely colleagues etc which compared to my last job but one is amazing.
However I have an 87 year old boss, a widower, yes you read right who is a lovely man etc but very forgetful (as he would be at that age), his son who works in the same company wants him to retire (he does a 4 day week) but I personally think he'll work until he drops. I was told yesterday he wasn't the same after his wife died which at a guess is 15 years ago. My boss also is hard to speak to because although he has a hearing aid it's rarely switched on. My patience is really stretched to the limit and I'm usually quite patient.
Anyway his office is a mess, files everywhere (tried to tidy it) and he's also had his previous PA/sec leave after a few months or a year at most.
I'm not the tidiest or most organised person at the best of times but I do what I can. I'm finding working with him hard though as he loses files, forgets things and I'm constantly on top of him (more than a PA usually is) he also has a lot of clients which he's being told don't take on new ones (but he does).
We rub along fine generally but then some thing is lost or forgotten and I wonder what I'm doing there.
This job was a stopgap after I left another one last year. I've just signed up to do HR and payroll introduction courses as want to go into office management - they're for May and short but imformative.
I worked happily with another boss for 5 years (apart from bullying by coworkers for some of that time) but I had a relatively tidy office for us all, tidy files and tidy desk. The whole if this office looks as if a bomb has hit it (typical usual lawyers office!).
Anyway should I look to leave now, see if it gets better or?