Advise, please: is it time for me to get another job?

Question

I love my job. I've been there for over 3 years. Me & my co-workers have fun working together, and we are considered to be a top-notch sales team. People outside our company say I am great to work with, and I do an exceptional job.

But the head of our department is at odds with me. When I first came here, people warned me he was a bad boss, but I decided to give him a chance. My good work earned a thank you card from him for a great sales presentation I made.

There have been blowups between him and others. In the past year, many from our dept. quit because of him. This summer, I found a Dilbert comic that reminded me of him. He found it, confronted me. I apologized & it hasn't happened since. But later, he kept bringing it up in meetings. Today, I just got an annual review, and mostly all he talked about was that comic, and I'm now "untrustworthy" & "non-conforming." But then, some of my co-workers got bad reviews from him today, too. We can't ALL suck!

Time to job hunt?

Answer 1

Maybe. There are two options:

1) A good sales rep is highly valued almost where ever they go. It sounds like your attitude will keep you working welll with others in almost any environment. So your 1st option is to job hunt; Maybe you can trade UP on jobs!

2) The second option is to see if there isn't a way to either get promoted into a different sector that will let you report to someone else, or examine the possibility of transferring within your company, so as to maintain your length of employment, I don't know about staying in that one particular environment though; there's nothing worse that being somewhere where you feel bad for the 8 best hours of your day. Good Luck!

Answer 2

Sounds like it's time to move on, but don't quit till you have another job.

Answer 3

I would say so...but it seems like all bosses are like that, so who knows!