In March 2024, I resigned from my job effective immediately.
Lillian Rodriguez
In March 2024, I resigned from my job effective immediately. I had been the program director for two supportive housing buildings, with two different sets of staff, clients, vendors, etc. Other directors' salaries were higher than mine, and they only managed one site. I had been there for a year, and it was a struggle to convince the executive director to approve funds in my budget for cameras, light bulbs, and walkie-talkies, which were necessary to operate a building. The staff was ill-equipped to do their jobs, so I implemented training and other methods to monitor their work. I had an admin. assistant who happened to come from the same company I had been with previously, and the staff, at the command of one employee in particular, who was a known troublemaker throughout the company, to complain that I had been playing favorites with my admin. assistant because she claimed we were friends. In addition, the employee threatened me (she was terminated because of that); however, they moved my admin assistant to another building and told me that that was one way of stopping the staff of accusing me of playing favorites and if I needed to meet with her, I would have to travel to the other location. I was already traveling to two sites, and now I would have to travel to another. I asked HR and the executive director to reconsider this decision. They refused and instead began, very nastily, criticizing the duties I had my admin assistant perform. The complaints and the accusations began right after I had surgery and broke my ankle, for which I spent three weeks working from home and met with my team of clinical supervisors, operations director, and admin assistant to ensure all bases were covered. While I was away, there had been some altercations between the admin assistant and the staff, and this is when the staff decided to complain.BTW, I took these issues to the board of directors with receipts and both the executive director an human resources director were terminated.
After I left, I did some consulting work for about three months after that, but have been unable to find employment. In the meantime, I completed my MPA.
My situation: On interviews, rather than saying I had resigned, should I say I took the time off to finish my studies? Is there something else I should say?
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