update: I’m covering 2 full-time jobs and my boss won’t help

Remember the letter-writer who was covering two full-time jobs and her boss wouldn’t help? It turns out that she solved the problem herself before I printed my answer. Here’s the update.

Your advice was lovely and I hope it helps people who are in the same position as I was.

As an update – Things got worse for 2-3 more months. I did have conversations with her where I explicitly clarified I could not do the workload she was requesting, and every time she would acknowledge it but continue to act shocked and say degrading things to me when the workload was not completed.

I took over the hiring after some pushing, and screened a number of applicants over the phone and hosted in person interviews for the replacement. A total of three people were hired over the course of a month, all of which she proceeded to retract the job offer from prior to their start date and refused to elaborate on why. One replacement went through two interviews with me, followed by THREE MORE with Natalie (I can’t imagine why they kept showing up, to be honest) only to get absolutely nowhere.

To my surprise, a local business I have loved since I was a child opened a marketing position and I interviewed for it, and was offered the job. I put in my two weeks with Natalie, and she was in absolute shock and said to me in the rudest tone possible, “I thought you were happy here?! We’ve been working so hard to get the replacement in!” and she spent the next two weeks in complete confusion as to why I was leaving. She also ignored my multiple offers throughout the two weeks to have a farewell meeting in which I would give her all info and documentation needed to have a smooth transition for the company. I ended up writing this information out in a document, which I provided her with. During the last half hour of my last ever shift, she FINALLY decided to have that meeting. We got five minutes in before her friend FaceTimed her, and I spent the rest of the meeting watching her chat with her friend about her new dog. I handed over my documents and left!

Fast forward about a month – I started getting voicemails and texts and calls from a new hire (funny how quickly they got hired once I was gone!) on their personal phone number, saying they needed access to my personal gmail account. I clarified very politely that there was nothing on there work-related, all documents had been passed over, and they had access to everything they needed. I have no idea what they would possibly want with my personal google account. Natalie ended up texting me herself, threatening legal action and saying because I used my account on my phone in her building it was legally hers. I told her I’d be happy to hear from her lawyer about it, but otherwise I’d be ignoring that insane request! I blocked her and never heard back.

I have been a full time marketing director for months now at a company I love that values my talents. I am thrilled to be out of my former situation!

Thank you for all of your advice, your site helped me greatly throughout my time workout in that hell-hole.

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