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Hey everyone! 👋 Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you love the people you work with, but you’re starting to question if the company’s direction is right for you? 🤔 I’m in that boat right now, and it’s making me think about updating my resume.
So, what are the signs that make you consider looking for a new job? Here are a few that are making me contemplate my next move:
– Not being confident in the new leadership’s direction for the company
– Feeling uncertain about the future of the business under new management
– Seeing a lack of alignment between your personal values and the company’s goals
I believe that it’s essential to trust and feel supported by your company’s leadership. But when that trust starts to waver, it might be time to start exploring other options. Remember, your career is a significant investment, and it’s crucial that you’re in a place where you can grow and thrive.
What do you think? Have you been in a similar situation before? Any tips for those of us pondering a job change? Let’s chat! 💬 #CareerAdvice #JobSearchTips
I was promoted to HRBP about 7 months ago. I work in manufacturing/logistics and it’s a third shift position with *a lot* of employees. It’s honestly been so tiring.
I’m tired of combative employees and senior management that makes decisions and changes their minds a week later. Our organization is also in the midst of unionizing which has been daunting itself (not saying i’m against unions at all, but it has created so much more work).
Overall, I miss my previous position (HR specialist) despite getting paid less. I miss doing mostly admin work and answering basic employee questions. Now i’m knee-deep in investigations and can hardly keep up with all the admin work and responsibilities I have. I (sometimes) work on my days off to stay afloat, which is something I’ve always been against doing as I am a firm believer in a healthy work-life balance.
I’m certainly considering leaving but the money i’m making now is hard to beat (based on my area and YOE)… so I’ve been putting up with it but I am constantly stressed out.
Not sure if all this information helps answer your question(s), but HR can be super mentally taxing and draining. I don’t think anyone from the outside can truly grasp what we deal with. I’m thinking of leaving the field altogether even though I’ve worked so damn hard to get to where I am.
Honestly, it’s management at my place. It’s like managing children. Common sense and management skills are nonexistent it feels like.
My boss is very back and forth with their moods. Sometimes they will chat my ear off sometimes they blow me off sometimes they doesn’t talk to me for 2 days straight. I don’t have much to do and I’ve been blown off about being able to learn more or back up the generalist. This company is also ran really crappy. They want to “decentralize” but the director and CEO have their hands in everything and now they are complaining about people using PTO. I also hate that I have to work 8-5 and don’t have any flexibility options. My breaking point was when I was asking for something to do and my manager scolded me about the supplies order and still didn’t give me an actual task to complete. I’m too smart and too good of a worker to stay in this job. Just remember you are an asset to any company and if this one is making you feel iffy there is no harm in just seeing what’s out there and you should always keep your resume up to date so this might just be an opportunity to do that.
My paycheck.
Seeing people that make constant errors in basic HR work make way more than me. In addition, my company culture being super work focused. Let’s give everyone laptops so that we can work on sick days at home and after office hours yet we can’t even be hybrid.
Senior leadership, lack of support, and lack of technology.
Senior leadership because our leadership team does what’s in their best interest and not the employees. For example, they’re permitted to work remotely on Thursday and Friday while the remaining staff is in the office.
Lack of support because most of my duties, I’ve learned myself. Not a big deal, but when I’d like changes implemented there’s a lot of pushback.
Lack of technology because everything is done manually from payroll to entering time off. Also, we have access to Microsoft Teams and other platforms but instead of calling via Teams audio or sending a chat, they call my desk phone for everything. I even tried to implement an employee expense report form via Microsoft Forms.
It is extremely frustrating and with the lack of automation, it adds so much more to my workload.
CEO of the company preaches support, when really all that means is ‘do it my way’, or else
Senior leadership. Recent senior hires have no HR background and I’ve just lost a lot of trust in them. Unsound decision making principles and a lot of kicking the can down the road for someone else to solve. I don’t know they plan to stay long since that’s their go-to
Also, high attrition within the org of tenured high performers because everyone can see that senior leadership do not have a hold on things.
The roles does pay well so I’m reluctant to move until I find something that pays at least similarly. Which has been hard in this market
(I do not work in HR, but I feel like this question is universally applicable).
The answer for me is: How much do I hate going in? Some places I dread, and some places make me sick to my stomach.
I have an honesty terrible job right now, but my boss and team are so awesome that I am going to hang around for the foreseeable future. I know my boss will try to help me advance once I put in my time. Working with people you like and respect makes the difference.
I’ve had the opposite, and I would far rather have a shit job than a terrible work environment.
Being contacted while on vacation about things that could wait until my return to office. Started looking for new jobs immediately.
For me, it’s that my boss is absolutely awful and sees me as a threat, I think. Every interaction with them is mentally painful and exhausting. They are a micromanager. I’m used to having a great relationship with my boss and being the rockstar; she treats me like I’m a 3 yr old, or maybe younger, because she acts like incapable of doing anything on my own or able to use critical thinking. She herself, though she can’t keep anything straight, is wrong constantly and has the worst organization and reading comprehension skills I’ve seen in an adult. Not to mention, she is so socially inept that she talks to people so rudely. Her peers do not like her either; they just tolerate her and can because they don’t have to work with her every single day.
Other than that, all the other people my age who have been hired within the past year or so want to leave. Only those with 10+ years want to stay. There’s just so many things wrong with the org from the top down, and they kind of know but don’t care to fix it. (I have seen old exit interviews- when they bothered to do one – and peolple have been telling them about the same issues for years.) They preach about wanting to attract and retain talent but push aside any idea that would serve that purpose. Or when someone brings up an issue, they attack the person and say they’re “x,y,z, and the problem, not us, so you can’t take them seriously.”
They are also very set in their ways. Will not make use of available technology, and I have been expressly told NOT to use it and do things manually that I can do with software we have access to in 5 minutes. They’re afraid of it and/or do not want to bother to learn.
Oh and they’re wishy washy on policy. Bending it to suit their own needs, and their favorites. They’re not consistent by any means. And they completely lack integrity. I’ve seen them lie and make shit up when they’re aduited by a funding source. Its frustrating to watch from behind the scenes as they bend the “rules” for one person but not others. And I’ve had to put my name on more than a few things I don’t agree with on principle.
I was fed up within 1 month of this job, which was 100% new to me. My boss makes it so I can’t sit back and coast while looking for a new job, every day is a new hell.