turns out i got a sign.....

so the other day i was contemplating whether or not i should take the advice i would give a friend in the same situation....

see advice is much easier to give than recieve and sometimes the advice you give someone else (no matter how much you care about them) is invariably going to be more objective than the advice you give yourself...of course, it is much easier to suggest to others how to run their lives, but far harder to apply it to your own situation - i wonder why that is? probably obvious really - quite simply, we have much more invested in implementing advice in our own lives! maybe that's why they say unsolicited advice is really worth nothing at all....

soooo anyway, i digress! the reason i blogged the other day about my indecision was that i have kinda been sitting on the fence about my work situation! new job, seemingly sexy role, great boss, nice team (bar one), and shitty customer....and i guess i was trying to weigh up whether all the good stuff could counter balance the bad stuff...

well, until monday morning (when i returned to work after having 3 days off sick with a virus that kept me virtually bed ridden) when a colleague told me about an incident she'd had and today when i was unfortunate (or perhaps i'll look back and see it as fortunate one day soon...) enough to have an incident myself (this was 'the sign), i was just plodding along pretending that things weren't so bad, and that sticking this job out for 2 years wouldn't be too bad...

who the fuck was i kidding? the guy is an arsehole - he's a bully - he's rude - he doesn't listen - he doesn't share any of the values i consider to be a minimum for someone to be considered humane - it's his way or the highway etc etc

this is NOT the sort of person i want to spend 2 days, much less 2 years, of my professional life working with or being associated with...

so, i've bitten the bullet! i've set up a meeting with my boss (the one i do like and respect) for tomorrow lunchtime...pretty sure i'm going to tell her that it's untenable...

wonder what'll happen next...