[Prudence]

I hatehatehate my job. Much evilness. Boss constantly sets me up by giving me one set of instructions, then revealing once completed work has been passed along that "real" instructions differed, thus making me look incompetent. I hatehatehate that. And deciding not to replace the 1.5 FTE staff we're missing, because I'm overtime exempt so she can just assign all that work to me. And then sits on a 4 week jury and doesn't even pass her work on to me at the time -- but now that she's back she's "too busy" to do her work that piled up so she's giving it to me -- only now it's overdue and she tells people it's my fault for not doing it while she was gone. She tells me to shut my door so I can work uninterrupted and get work done faster -- then five minutes later knocks and orders me to open it because people are seeing the closed door and going away, thus not interrupting me. And I need to be available to all people all the time for whatever they need. I'm an overtime-exempt, salaried employee, the only other such employee there (besides her), and I'm the one filling people's printers with paper, taking documents downstairs for them because they're "busy," and making photocopies on demand because apparenly everyone else's arms and legs have been amputated. I used to love it there but now I resent all of them. I get indigestion every Sunday evening because I dread Monday morning. Yesterday I actually felt what I'd have to call a small stirring of homicidal rage. Today was better, but only because the boss was in a meeting most of the day and I didn't have to look at her or feel her presence across the suite. But then as I was leaving she complained again about how busy she is, assigned me work I know full well the dept. chair gave to her because I already had a full plate, then when I told her I couldn't meet the competing deadlines said "I don't care about that" and walked away. Wants me to skip classes that start well after the end of my scheduled work day so that she can attend her kids' mid-afternoon sporting events, because I don't have kids and therefore my after work life is irrelevant and she can require my presence any time that suits her. I spend all day seething at her. I'm so happy to have a three day weekend. Although she wants me to work on something Monday that the chair said she wanted Monday, knowing full well that the chair only said Monday because she forgot about the holiday and won't be in herself on Monday.
Hatehatehate. I have so many applications out. Please oh please interview me and let me not reek of desperation.