To quit or not to quit
By hexebella
@hexebella (1136)
Philippines
October 14, 2011 9:29am CST
My job title is Purchasing Officer in a 4star international brand hotel in Muscat. Aside from the procurement task, I am also responsible for the receiving and storekeeping. In a normal scenario, there is minimum of 2 personnel in the purchasing, 1 Receiving Agent and 1 Storekeeper. This is the minimum staffing but i am doing everything. Worse case, the GM also instructed me to do the costing which is job of a Cost Controller or Cost Accountant and I am not an Accountant by profession. I normally work 12 to 14 hours a day free of charge, with no overtime pay just to cope with the demands of the work and the paperwork that slowly piling up as during the day, I have no chance to focus on reports due to huge traffic in my small office from vendors and internal clients. My physical strength is drained and I am always like a dead meat. The salary is also very less in comparison to the amount of work i am doing. I was given an assistant which is a local but he can help me only with leg work and physically fixing the store, not on the reports or paperwork. Giving instruction and teaching him also consumes time. I can only see that quitting is the only way out.
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5 responses
@omchesunche (1755)
• Indonesia
14 Oct 11
Well, sounds really hard situation you are facing right now. Understand sometimes becomes key player of the company, sometimes will be equal with lots of works and responsibility. It happen to me many times as well, when I feel too many jobs in my scope of works while other employee who sometimes has higher salary than me seems more relaxing. I was really get upset and thought to resign quickly but lucky I have good friends to gave advice. So I went to my superior and tell him everything that made my life difficult and tell him nicely if no changes then most probably I will resign. He was shocked and realized his mistakes by burden me with lots of tasks without equal appreciation. He worked hard to get salary adjustment and also provide more assistance for me.However, I still quit since already got better company.
So, meaning you should communicate to your superior first and let him know the problem.
@hexebella (1136)
• Philippines
21 Oct 11
it's my mistake, I am sharing computer with alcris410 and didn't check that she was the one logged in, i started to comment without knowing that it was not my account LOL!
@alcris410 (6)
• Oman
21 Oct 11
Yeah! I did already and they gave me an assistant which is a local (Omani). 90% of these people are useless, the first assistant i got worked only for 3 weeks, every single day I have to tell him to fix the store as all items are in disarray. If there are new deliveries I have to tell him always that he has to take out the items from the cartons and put them on the shelves. If I will not tell him what to do he will not move. He will just sit in the office and send sms and sometimes use the phone to chat with his friends. Being an expat, I can not reprimand him, they will complain and I will be on the bad side. One time I asked him to bring some empty cartons to the accounts office as they use it to put old files, he replied he doesn't want as he will pass through the corridors of the hotel and guests will see him, so I have to do it. After he left, I learned that he told to some employees that I am giving him hard work and I was shouting at him.
My assistant now is our IT assistant who used to help me before when he is free. He can help me with leg work and physical fixing of the store, but with the paper works, none at all. Every time there is a delivery I have to look for him in the hotel, he used to stay in the front office and helping as a bell boy. He doesn't realize his priority that he has to stay at the back of the house. When something get wrong, I get the blame, it is a headache indeed!
@ReViewMeMedia (3785)
• United States
15 Oct 11
you should not quit your job until you have found one to replace it, because of the unemployment rate and the fact that lots of people are looking for work.
@alcris410 (6)
• Oman
21 Oct 11
You are indeed right, I started already job hunting but if nothing come out in 60 days time, i'd rather resign than get burried in the mountain of papers. Right now, I can feel the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome on my hands, if I ruin my hands, the more problem of getting another job
@sjvg1976 (41131)
• Delhi, India
14 Oct 11
Hello hexebella,
I think you should change your job as soon as possible because i think you are being paid less for your work.
I work in a manufacturing unit and in to material planning but we do have lot of personnels to look after stores like we have around 2 staffs and around 5 casuals to assist them in receiving and there are 5 staffs for issuance and around 15 casuals for assiting them and then there is an store incharge which i find always free and have very less work to do.
We also do work for 9~10 hours a day and not paid anything for the extra hours but i think 14 hours a day is really too much.One will automatically drain out working for so much time i wonder how much time you devote with your family?
I work in a manufacturing unit and in to material planning but we do have lot of personnels to look after stores like we have around 2 staffs and around 5 casuals to assist them in receiving and there are 5 staffs for issuance and around 15 casuals for assiting them and then there is an store incharge which i find always free and have very less work to do.
We also do work for 9~10 hours a day and not paid anything for the extra hours but i think 14 hours a day is really too much.One will automatically drain out working for so much time i wonder how much time you devote with your family?@hexebella (1136)
• Philippines
21 Oct 11
Yes you are right sjvg....I can not think of any one good reason to continue. Materials control is not done by one person alone and materials procurement is normally, the least, done by 2 persons.....everything is on top of my head....cost control is part of the accounts as well as inventory. Another burden is the inventory of the whole hotel which the GM instructed me to do.
@kareemadivina (1230)
• Philippines
14 Oct 11
If you can find a better job right now,then better quit.If you think it's hard to find a job,you can talk to your superiors and talk about your problems.Maybe they will listen to you.You can also have a division of work between you and your assistant.He can focus on the physical works and you can focus on the paper works.That way you will not be exhausted.
@hexebella (1136)
• Philippines
16 Oct 11
I did it already and they approved to give me an assistant. The assistant is a big help in the pysical work but the paperwork which should be done by the Receiving Agent and the Storekeeper has to be done by me. During the day I can't focus on the paper work as people come and go from my office, both vendors and internal clients. Another problem is the management doesn't understand which position is responsible for a certain kind of task and I also brought to their aatention that with the current set-up, me, being in-charge in the procurement, receiving and inventory (my assistant is reporting to me, he should be reporting to the accounts directly), there is a big opportunity for me to steal money from them by conniving with the vendors, but no reaction from them. I think they have no idea what is materials management and control.
@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
15 Oct 11
I'd say if the job really drains you out.. and you aren't happy anymore, quit the job. But do think first... its really tough to be out of job, if you manage to find a new job.. then take it and leave the hotel. Sometimes some locals limits the job their doing... they want to be comfortably working even if it means a lot of pending jobs.
@alcris410 (6)
• Oman
21 Oct 11
it drains me physically and mentally, i already started sending out my CV and i;m giving myself 2 months to find another job, if none then it's time to leave this country. The nationalization policy of the government sucks, it limits the visas to expat to give the locals the job. But the locals are so lazy, most of them do not know english, and if they did, they can just speak, they can not read or write english. They want to get high positions and high salary without knowing and doing anything.
