I have an email ready to send to my boss declaring my resignation. It's wonderfully worded, and few things would give me more satisfaction than sending it.
I work at my university's housing office. I was recently hired as a supervisor for the summer. Because we have prime real estate in a large city, we rent out our dorms to college students from around the country during the summer. We began training at the beginning of January. I have worked for this institution for two years previously, as a "grunt", but this is my first time as a supervisor.
Background aside, I live in a brand new building on campus. To keep this short: the elevators blow in this building. They break in a bi-weekly basis. There are three. I live on the 10th floor. It's a pain in my fucking ass when only one elevator is working, which has been the norm for the past few weeks. It tends to hover between zero and one working elevator. Brand new building. It's also the most expensive on campus. There has been no communication with us addressing the elevator problems, which have continued for MONTHS.
Because our institution is run like an enormous bureaucracy, the folks in charge of fixing the elevators are a different office than mine. Given that this has seriously been going on for about 6 months, I researched the administrators of the university organization that maintains the elevators. I got all of their email addresses from the directory and sent them a fairly long email, detailing my grievances. The email was professionally worded. It clearly stated the issue, the absurd number of occurrences, and my desire for a long term solution. I did not devolve to emotional pleas nor to similar notions. Yet it was strongly worded, concluding with the assertion "What do you intend to do to fix this situation?"
3-4 days pass after I send this email. Nothing happens. I figured I'm just going to get shrugged off. The elevators aren't even fixed. We have a staff meeting on Friday (yesterday?). I get pulled out of it for a meeting in my boss' office along with the director of my office. Eek. They talk about my email and how inappropriate it was. Among the complaints were my ruining of the relationship with the office that manages the elevators. Yet I sent the email from a PERSONAL CAPACITY. I made no mention of our office(no signature, no mention). It is not even known outside our office that the student who sent it was an employee of the housing office. I was simply an annoyed student. I disagreed vehemently with the nature of this private meeting with administrators, but bit my tongue.
Now, instead of ending there, my bosses decide to make an example of me. The staff meeting agenda was cast aside so that we can discuss just how inappropriate my email was. The entirety of it is read aloud to the entire staff with the vague notion that "others can learn from this mistake." Some kiss ass to the administrators, while others are entirely confused as to what constituted the supposed unprofessionalism. I sat there and took that too.
Now I'm fucking fed up. So now I have an email, ready to quit. The position would let me live for free for the summer (I'm graduating in May) and earn a good paycheck, but I don't know if I can tolerate this administration. I'm seriously thinking I'd rather be searching for a job in this shitty market for a year than suck it up and have no backbone. I guess I'll think on it for the weekend.
