I've been working the same job for 13, almost 14 years. I'm working in an industry I genuinely love, I am passionate about and find exciting but that's all coming to an end. I'm starting to hate every second of it and am growing bitter and resentful of ownership.
It's a family business (not mine), the owner is bat $&!# crazy driven, borderline psychotic, totally bipolar, but has treated me well-ish and pays just enough to keep me around. Well right up until last week when I received my year end bonus, which happened to be a total &^@# over.
Business grew by 8%, my bonus went down by 40%. I do the purchasing and had always felt valued until now. Now I want to hurt the business. Like really &^@# it up, and I could.
I'm so pissed off at my boss. The rationale behind cutting bonuses is selfish greed, retirement, succession bull$&!#. Lies and deceit.
I started working on my cover letter, resume will come next and I'll be asking industry reps / agents etc for references so I can bail without having to get the misguided $&!#head to sign a letter of reference.
There's been ups and downs over the years but I've never resented my employer as much as I do now. I'm insulted and angry.
I got the news last Friday before a 4 day weekend where I got to take my son to his first Canucks game, it was awesome, but the second I got back to work on Wed I wanted the entire building to fall over and burst into flames with my boss trapped inside.