My wife is going to be leaving her employer of the past 18 years. She has been with the university in the HR department since day one, worked her way up from assistant to manager. The further up the ladder she got, the more she got to peak behind the curtain, and what she was seeing was not good. She loves her crew of girls and the university community as a whole, but senior management is horrid and only getting worse. She was kind of at the end of her mental rope and a change was necessary. This was the first year that after our 3 weeks of Christmas vacation she didn't actually want to go back to work, and that was a big wake up call. There was just a lack of respect, support, and resources, matched with higher expectations that was really putting the entire office in a bad place. Then they decided to hire a new vice president that runs the office and it's already looking like a train wreck. They are going to be f'd when she leaves, one of her employees has already stated that she'll be putting her notice in the same day. But senior management won't care too much, they don't value HR, so it'll just continue to get worse.
So I pushed her to update her resume and start passing it out to people she knows in the industry. She will be starting with Government at the beginning of March and I'm hoping that some much needed relief from the worst of the BS. It's a step back in title but actually a step up in pay, not to mention there are a lot more opportunities for advancement within government that were not present at the university. But it'll be a sad few weeks for her as she has a lot of friends and coworkers, and she still genuinely cared about the organization, which is also the reason why all the BS was bothering her so much.
On the plus side, she'll be going from making around $800 more per year than me to a solid $6K+ more, so that'll help with some future plans. I'm just more excited to have a wife that isn't beat up after every work day and might have a bit more mental spirit left over for me.
She's more than a bit nervous about the "unknown" but she loves learning new things and new challenges so I'm sure she'll be happy when she gets settled in.
