Hi everyone,
I'm one month into a new job after being made redundant. I was lucky to find something fairly quickly so was pretty happy.
Initially my employer said in my interview they wanted me in three days a week, I said this would be a deal breaker for me, I'm a single parent and financially child care costs would be too much. They came back to me and said I could do two days in the office and one month full time at the start to train. I agreed with that, but was very clear I would only do one month full time.
Another person started in the same job as me and also said a similar thing that they were looking to do only two days in the office.
We both have been able to do our job pretty well and have started working from home this week.
But the issue is my manager, she's 4 months into her new job and totally incapable of doing it. She's useless beyond words, doesn't like presenting, disorganised, delegates all her work out, deflects blame to others in the team and generally makes our life difficult not easier. We all say the same thing, I can't actually believe she's made it this far into the job.
But because she's so bad at her job we are all now being asked to come in 4 days a week for the next 3-4 weeks possibly longer it's not clear. I've said no, and was prepared to walk away. They have agreed to allow me to leave work early two of those days to collect my daughter. But what concerns me is they keep moving the goal posts and I've lost trust in them. They knew the impact this would have and still did it. There is no reason they need to do this, we can easily get trained at home.
I'm now thinking of leaving and looking for a new job, and just try and find a fully remote job again. I'm just disappointed 😞 part of me just wants to leave tomorrow, but then I think I should try and find something while I'm working.
What should I do?!