Your primary weapon should be the sympathetic smile. Whenever she does something completely out there, just smile sympathetically and think about how difficult it must be to live with that as your thought process 24-7. The redeeming feature of difficult people is that the the toxic drivel coming out of their mouths is generally also the way they tlak to themselves inside their heads. So really, being her is it’s own punishment.
Develop some nervous tics. Squeezing your toes means “You @$$hole” ticing the side of your mouth means “Shut up B!#ch”, that sort of thing.
Keep a list of everything she has asked you to do. Never do anything without writing it on the list first. Keep the list on a white board if possible, so it’s visible to everyone.
But don’t quit until you have a job, seriously. Use you lunch time and evenings to look. Use the internet, use monster, give out the phone number at your desk to recruiters. Recruiters have been doing this work for a while, and they understand that you can’t always speak freely.
If you have a consistent job record, with other long term positions then there is no use of putting this on your resume if you have only been there for six weeks. Your previous position was for 4 years, and that is enough to prove that you are a “loyal” employee. In this economy nobody should be surprised that a potential employee has been out of work for 7 or 8 months.
It is far easier to dedicate the time to find a new job, if you can dedicate your time full time, while working I’ve never had the time nor freedom to be able to find another job while holding onto another job.
Gonzomax, in jobs I have had where I am doing the hiring, I have always held people who have a job and are at an interview in suspicion. Interview times are usually during working hours, and in order to go to an interview for another job, and unless that other job was aware you are still looking, you would have to lie to get the free time to make it to another interview. I also would question the loyalty of someone who can hold one job, and look for another. Have you ever considered this flipside?
Loyalty? It’s to laugh. Employee loyalty went right out the door when companies started laying off people willy nilly. The buzz word today is that you own your career. I’ve never heard anyone say anything negative about someone looking for a job while in another job, because just about everyone has done it at least once.
And you don’t have to lie - all you have to say is that you have an appointment.
I’m with the keep the job until you find another crowd. Being halfway out the door makes any situation a lot easier to take. You can spend your hours, do things the best you can, and not give a crap about what the bitch thinks of you. It will piss her off no end also.
Even if you could survive for a while without the job; you don’t want to be in a position where you HAVE to take the next job that comes along. Isn’t that how you got in this situation in the first place?