Countdown to new job....4 days

I am more than thrilled!! Of course, since I announced my new job offer and gave my two weeks notice, it has been incredibly awkward around my office. With just me, the boss lady, (who you all know is just a little narcissistic ....read, incredibly narcissistic...) and our unpaid-makes-his-own-schedule intern who isn't as much help as she expected, things were bound to be a bit tense.

I find it incredibly vindicating and hilarious that my boss continues to tell me what an inadequate job I'm doing everyday, but keeps asking me to stay on longer. She is very upset that anything "solidified" for me on the job hunt before August, because she is going on a week and half long vacation at the end of July. Yep, apparently she thinks I should plan the future of my career around her beach vacation. Of course I would love to stay at this dead end job where I am treated like dirt each day so that you can take vacation time! Why wouldn't I want to continue doing your job for you and getting paid a third of your salary and no commission for my sales efforts? Oh wait, I'm sorry "OUR" sales efforts, as you love to say any time the numbers are down. LOL, so yes, I don't really care enough to hide my excitement! Let her be upset that she actually has to do some or the leg work for a change.

She spent the first few days of my last 2 weeks acting like I was leaving out of the blue, while at least 2 months before this I informed her that the commute from the new house was just going to be too much and that I was going to try to find something closer. We're a very small operation and in order to find a new job while still being professional, I had to be honest and not spring a "Hey I got a new job see you later" kind of thing. I also went on all my interviews at the beginning or ends of the business day so I would only have to take an hour here and there out of my work week, which she was happy about.

For now I am just handling all the flack as demurely as possible, because with one foot out the door what else is there to do? If I had wanted to up and quit, make a huge scene and go out in a blaze of glory I would have done it by now.

But that said, I have completely checked out today. So far none of the new interviewees for my position have worked out, and I'm getting the guilt trip because of all the added "stress" that is causing my boss so close to vaca. Please note that she is one of the very few AE's who have an assistant, and the rest of them all take vacations and let the head office cover their clients. So the guilt-ing effort is wasted on me. I'm pretending to edit my old marketing materials for the new assistant to use and bumping/blogging/not actually working the rest of today.

My parents are coming down Saturday and it should be nice relaxing weekend before the end of an era. I'll need it, I'm sure that the next 3 work days here will be the longest of my life!