Stuck in a job I hate - wwyd?

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I'm stuck in a job I absolutely hate. Long hours, stress, not allowed to take AL in the summer while the kids are off, cant even enjoy the evenings with the kids cos its our busy time so have to work late at least 3 evenings during the week. I want to move internally to another team, but I got a promotion (that I didnt want) last November and am now stuck in this department until this November. I cant move externally for another 6-8 months because of our mortgage.

My boss took on a new joiner in March and he has zero experience but they gave him a qualified persons job. Qualified in our work is 3 years experience. He reports into me, so his lack of experience falls on me.

I try to teach him tasks. Sometimes I will give him a task and explain it all. He says ok I'll do that but then he doesnt complete it at all. I dont know why.

I told him for one part of our job, he needs to check this every day and talked him through how to do it a few times. I've told him numerous times it has to be checked every day and he still doesn't do it. On Friday evening, I asked if he had checked it that day and he said 'i'll do it on Monday'.

He has been given a group of his own clients with tasks he needs to complete for them. He has been told 'these are you clients, we need to see you take responsibililty for these'. He still shows zero responsibility or initiative.

I have to tell him everything numerous times, but even if I do that he might not complete the task anyway.

Everything is falling on me aswell as my usual heavy workload and I'm just miserable.

I've spoken to my manager about it and we can see how things are after the 6 months probation but that means I still have 7 weeks of hell and long hours to go through. How can I get through 7 more weeks of this

When I'm not working, I'm stressed about work and its impacting how I am when I'm with DP and the kids. I often wake up and night and cant get back to sleep because I start thinking about work and cant stop.

If anyone has any advice on what I should do, I could really use it right now.

Probably missing the point....but why is your mortgage stopping you looking to move to another organisation?

We're building so we're drawing down the mortgage in stages and wont have the last drawdown until next spring/summer. I don't want to cause any hassle by switching jobs before then.

If you manage him I'd put him on a probationary review now to line up for a dismissal at 6 months if he's not improved.

It will give him a shot across the bows not to ignore your instructions if he wants to keep his job and means you can dismiss immediately at 6 months.

If there are problems with his performance, you tell him now. It's poor management to wait until the end of someone's probation to tell them they've failed.

Or does your manager mean pass his probation then try to address his performance? Because that's an even worse plan!

What is your employer's capability policy? If he reports to you, do you not have any power to commence that route and give a first formal warning? You've already tried informal action.

The longer the problem is ignored, the harder it will be to address.