I am leaving my temp job this week. I have accepted a job closer to home which is 10 minutes away and more pay. The temp job is 40 minutes away.
I feel guilty for leaving as one person has left and my other colleague may have secured a job elsewhere and is waiting for the outcome of his interview. He has been at the organisation 14 years.
My colleagues have all told me there are not enough staff, even the supervisor and manager have said this and they seem stressed out too. One person has been on long term sick for months. The supervisor is covering the sick person’s job and has lots of shooting pains in his body everyday. They all say things such as ‘you can only do so much’.
The organisation merged last year and the staff who work at a different office are rude and passive aggressive to my colleagues on the phone which I have heard this - it tends to be directors doing this.
I feel a lot of guilt for leaving as I know they are short staffed and stressed and if my colleague gets this job the place will fall apart without him as he bends over backwards. They are all nice people and don't deserve this pressure. How can I not feel guilt for leaving?