BACKGROUND: Okay, here goes – I HATE where I work. I’ve been with the same company since 2000 & when I joined we were a small women owned business with just 10 employees. I moved up the ranks & now have a job that I really enjoy even though I don’t have the educational background to justify my salary, really need to work on Master’s to do that.
So in April last year my boss told me that she was selling the company & the company that was interested were from DC & already had a NY office & that if they bought us I would no longer have a job. So the paper finding trial & audit went on for 6 months & in the end she didn’t like their offer & didn’t sell to them – I was very thankful that I was still employed but the stress was killing me. Then in Oct of 2010 an international company came sniffing around & once again a very small group of us worked liked hell to do all the legal stuff & all parties agreed & we were sold in Dec. The owner got mega bucks & each of the EVP's was guaranteed 1 mil if they stayed with us till 2016. So come Jan of this year everything was moving slowly along with new procedures & stuff but all in all it was going well. In March we were told to hire a Finance manager because of the reporting needed for the new owner & one was hired in April who knew how to work on their accounting system – the accounting system is huge in Europe but not so much in the US. The new Finance manager came from an advertising background, which is not what our company does & within the first week voiced that there should be no Administrative Assistants since the job was obsolete & all account staff should be doing what they do – because that’s what they did in her old company. A month later 1 AA was gone, within 3 months an AA with over 20 years with the company was also gone & what made me laugh is that in her severance letter which I originally did she got 1 wk for every year worked with the company but this was edited by the Finance manager who put down that she will get those weeks but it would be stopped once she got a new job – I was like WTF. I know that there is no law stating that you are entitled to severance & that you’re really lucky to get anything but WTF. This AA was in her mid-50’s & was one of the original 4 people who has been with the company since the very first day. Thankfully the owner over ruled her & that was taken out of her letter, so she got the 5+ months severance & a few things forgiven by the company.
Recently while I was on vacation the Finance manager emailed me asking for some information about our payroll company & to tell me that she needed to be added to the administrative side of the account. Frankly this request got me very nervous as I do payroll for the company & felt that if my job duties were going to be taken from me that I was definitely out of a job. So while on vacation I put the request through & when I got back to the office I told her they would be in touch with her for training & she said that it wasn't urgent. The same day I spoke to my GM & told him that I didn’t feel secure in my job & that with getting married in Nov & buying a house I needed to know before signing a mortgage that I still had a job. He reassured me as best he could that I had nothing to worry about – deep down I didn’t believe him. So, this past week we were updating our 401K administrative details & after I sent out the new forms with all the signatures, mine included, he shot an email out stating that he needed to be added as the admin on the account (which is my duty on this) & frankly I did something that I shouldn’t have – I emailed him asking him when was my last day with the company since I was no longer the admin on the 401K. He replied that I needed to relax & the next day told me he didn’t know where I was coming from & that he made a mistake & it should have been him down as a trustee not admin & again said that I should stop fretting about it.
Now to top it off, our payroll company sent me an email yesterday asking me if I wanted training & that my new log-in info had changed. I told them it was a mistake that I didn’t need training & that it should have been sent to our Finance director – who I immediately went to & asked if she wanted the emails since they weren’t meant for me. She replied that she was in the middle of registering on the site & that I should keep the info & if she wanted it she would let me know. Another knot in my stomach was beginning to form.
Today I was told that there was a major breach in security & that it was with one of my files being on the public drive in the company. Now I know for a fact that the only place this file folder was located was on my desktop & not in any company drives as I made sure of that back in Jan – of course my tech people, who we outsource, can’t trace when it was placed on the public drive because our GM had already moved it to a more secure location. He then hands me a 2 page procedural document stating what needs to be where & who will have access to it. I’ve been told to move all my company files to this secure drive & only 3 people will have access to it, me, the GM & the FM. Now I know that there is no way that he could have created a 2 page document in 1 day, it had to be the FM, which I don’t have a problem with. What I do have a problem with is the assumption that I would actually put a confidential folder in a public drive when I have so much personal & way more confidential info because it was in my personal drive & other folders on my desktop weren’t moved – nothing like this has happened to me in my 11 years with the company. Granted now that we are bigger (43 people) it means that my office & computer is on lock down, it’s like we don’t trust the people we work with & yet again I’m up late typing this because I can’t sleep, I can’t eat (I’ve lost 5 pounds this week which is good for my dress fitting, lol) & I still don’t know if I’ll have a job in a month.
I’m going on vacation on the 15th & while I’ll probably think about my job I just have to resign myself to the fact that I could be out of a job when I get back but would they let me go (with the understanding that my job is being eliminated, excuse they've given others – which is BS) before or after vacation. What about my wedding in Nov – before then or after.
I have to try & tell myself (& believe it) that whatever happens happens but that’s not easy especially since I make more money than my fiancé & I’ll have to see if I can get another job with a similar salary. He’s says I’m over thinking the whole thing but am I really?
Thanks for reading & I’m sorry for rambling on but I just needed to get it out there & see if anyone else has experienced something like this.
Thanks again