I can't believe charitable people could be like this. I feel like walking out.

[Rhubarb]

I think I should give my notice in.

I've had enough.

Yes, your boss sounds appalling - how on earth did she get that job?

Massive sympathies though, it's absolutely awful when you start dreading going in to work - and on a low wage too.

I think it's time to start job-hunting tbh.

I have 2 weeks booked off at Easter. No days during this half term so dd is in the nursery for 4 days.

I feel bad enough leaving ds in the nursery 4 days a week 9-3.30 at his young age. It's not something I would choose to do. I'm going to find it heartbreaking to leave him in that nursery at 8am knowing he's there until 6pm. I don't want to do it.

Can dh take a couple of hours off to pick him up?

Hi Rhubarb.

How long have you been there? If you have been there for over a year and you do decide to leave (and I can see why you would want to), make sure you make it clear that they are leaving you no option but to leave because of the extra demands, unreasonableness etc. You may possibly have a claim for constructive dismissal.

However, if you've been there less than a year then I think job hunting asap is the answer.

Good luck.

I've recently left my job in the voluntary sector Rhubarb for pretty much the same reasons as you. I'd stuck it for 5 years but the attitude was doing my head in.

It seems that because you work for a charity you are expected to get paid less and 'give' more. Unpaid overtime, cribbing over expenses, crap pay, no rises (not even a sodding cost-of-living). Sympathy.

get signed off with stress & depression as you certainly sound it. Give yourself time to think thru everything before your annual leave which you deserve to enjoy.

piglit, he's doing agency work. He's at work today even though he's really ill because we can't afford for them to get someone else to replace him.

I see my boss tomorrow, we're on a training course together. I shall be having words. She'll be left in no doubt as to how I feel.