I am no longer feeling good about my new job.
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I am no longer feeling good about my new job.
I was hired as a Full Charge Bookkeeper in the latter part of June after searching for four months for a job. I am very grateful that they took a chance with me with no experience, fresh out of college but I’m becoming overwhelmed. I was originally supposed to bookkeep the small shop we run, plus I was supposed to help, keyword help, with managing the financials of our rental properties and hotel. However, 3 weeks ago, our Airbnb/Vrbo booking lady, who was the bookkeeper for the hotel, literally got up and quit one morning and I’ve assumed a good chunk of her responsibilities that I was given little to no instruction on how to do anything. I’ve also been put in charge of helping to manage the finances of our VA program we parter with which I have no idea how to handle and was not given any instructions.
Besides that, my workplace is highly disorganized and there are severe lacks in communication and miscommunication. Our boss uses the business email for everything and doesn’t allow us to move most of them as she wants it all in one place. I’ve seen very personal medical emails for her unintentionally. I will get slips where we paid for invoices for inventory items but with no way of knowing how they were paid or how much until we get a credit card statement, which we have 20+ of each month, so I collect a huge stack of them. Our systems are old and outdated and don’t work half the time - our Quickbooks crashes multiple times every day. We have docks we rent, and one renter sold his boat months ago and the slip was open to rent but we were never told by someone downstairs who knew about it until his card expired. I also have to take care of some of our boss’s personal financial stuff like credit card purchases and medical insurance and such. We literally have two whole buildings full of paperwork because our boss doesn’t get rid of anything, and the walls are lined with dirty, dusty binders. In fact, everything is dirty and dusty. There is no organized anything in here. We still write down people’s store account statuses on cards in wooden boxes.
I was warned that it would be a lot at the start but I feel like I’m way out of my depth here and this is beyond anything any one person could do on their own. They’ve tried to give the booking lady’s job to another employee who was going to quit due to stress of this place, but they were given absolutely no training on how to do it, either, so we are both very confused!
I’ve taken on a lot of new responsibilities that were not disclosed in the job posting - which promised 15$ an hour but I was started at 13$. What’s made me so stressed is that recently I’ve been put in charge of figuring out a new loan tracking software for reasons I was really not given and was told I’ll “figure it out”. That is not in my expertise at all but it’s my responsibility now.
I would hate to leave because they really like me here and at this point they’re relying on me, but I’m already job searching on the side. I can see why turnover at this place is high now.
My parter is also visiting me in September. I want to ask my boss if we can work my hours differently for the week they are here so I can spend time with them, and I’ll even work overtime to make up for it afterwards, but she hasn’t been in the place in several days and doesn’t respond to calls or messages. I dread asking because I know I’ve become an essential here in just a month and a half but I Have to have some time with my partner as this trip is very expensive, pre planned for over half a year, and a one time opportunity. If they say yes to reworking my schedule that’s great, if not… I guess that’s a reason to put in my two weeks. My partner is far more important than this hot mess of a job.
Am I rushing things? Should I not be jumping to look for another job so soon? I really can’t see myself here more than 6 months if that, no matter how much I like the people here. If my partner wasn’t coming and I didn’t need the money so bad, I would have walked away the first couple of weeks. What can I do to make this situation better?
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