Re: Family
In reply to praguepride (msg # 1862):
Wow. That sucks. Do you get overtime for this BS, or are you salaried?
Don't do anything dramatic until you're ready to walk away. Get ready to walk away. Spiff up your resume and know what your value is in the marketplace. Go on a few first interviews. This is OK even if you don't plan to leave, but moving on to second interviews and salary negotiations is not cool if you're not doing it in good faith. It is even OK to tell your interviewers that you are not desperate to leave, you're just putting your toe in the water. If they're professionals, they will understand. If they don't understand, you don't want to work for them, anyway.
Once you're ready, which means that you've had a couple of promising interviews, address the problem calmly and without threats. Explain that the constant "emergencies" and the significant overtime has become unacceptable. I strongly suspect that the manager won't take it well, because he sounds like he gets off on jerking you around. When he pulls the BS once more, then just confirm that you'll be on top of it the first thing in the morning, but you have to go now. Then leave. He'll explode, or maybe he'll back down. That will tell you whether or not you want to move forward with the interviews.
I've done a ton of hiring as well as my full share of getting hired, and I do know a bit about it, including what makes a good resume. If you'd like me to look over yours and give suggestions, I'd be glad to. While my background is in software, I've successfully given resume advice to a nurse, a pastor, a medical equipment engineer, and others. rMail me or PM me in your game that I'm in, and I'll give you my home email address.
What do you do? Is it something you can do remotely? Lots of companies have learned in the pandemic that people can be very effective working remotely, so don't assume that you need to look geographically nearby. (Surprisingly, lots of companies did not learn it, in spite of a whole year of their employees being productive and effective remotely. It's a power thing.)
This message was last edited by the user at 01:30, Tue 15 June 2021.