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How do I quit in this situation?
A little backstory: I have been at my current job for 5 months. It has been pretty awful - my boss is very unpleasant, the job I am doing is not the job I was hired for, the commute is rough, it's a small office and there is no camaraderie etc. I'm in talks with another organization to work there and it looks like it will work out.
Here's my dilemma - the new job will be part-time hours, and for the first few months it will be very part-time. The pay is quite a bit more so once I get to normal part-time hours I will make as much as my full-time job. Two of my co-workers know my intentions to leave and have suggested that I offer to stay at my current job part-time until they are able to hire someone else. Since it would help me financially until the other job picks up, I would like to offer this to my boss. I also don't want to burn bridges because there is a consulting position that will be available in September that I want to apply for. Like I said before, my boss isn't very nice and he's hard to read. I don't know if he'll be really upset at me or if he will be willing to work with me. Any advice for how to approach this? Do I turn in my resignation letter and then ask about pt work or do I just tell him I have another job offer and would like to work pt there as well if it helps them out? I know my boss knows I'm unhappy - we talked about how I'm not doing the job I was hired to and he flat out told me that's just the way things were and would be so I'm not sure how surprised he'll be by my leaving.
Re: How do I quit in this situation?
Nope, both organizations are non-profits. It would be in the best interest of the organization if I stayed part-time while they searched for a replacement because of what I do, but I'm not sure my boss has the best interests of the organization in mind all the time...
Non-profits can compete (for clients or for donors) so be prepared to give him full disclosure on what company you are moving on to, what they do and what your role will be.
I would set-up a time to talk to him about your position. When you sit down, cut to the chase instead of dragging it out. Tell him you have been offered a position with company X, doing X work. Let him you are accepting the position because it more closely aligns with your career goals and it will be a pay increase.
If you are hoping to do consulting work with him, I would really butter it up that you believe in the current company?s mission, but you really need a position that will let you grow in your area of expertise (the same expertise you hope to be hired for later).
Tell him the position will start at X hours a week for X amount of time so you would be able to work your full two weeks and assist with part time hours for X amount of time to help with the transition. The conversation should role itself from there.
You do know that all non-profits that receive any kind of government funding are in a lot of jeopardy right now, correct? We are in a CR until March 4 and it is pretty likely it will get rolled for another two months ? pretty much any non-profit with government funding (grants too) don?t know where their budgets are at right now. We work with some people whose jobs are literally up for cut with the federal government ? we cannot renew their yearlong contracts because we don?t know the whole picture of their area?s budget.
I don?t know anything about you or the company that you are going to be working with and I am sure there is a lot more to the story, but if someone I knew told me the same story you wrote I would be really worried about them and their finical security unless they had a very well documented contract from the new company. To me, a company that is offering you a part-time position, but can?t give you stable hours for a few months is a company that might not be able to give you hours at all when this storm hits.
I don?t mean to scare you away from a better job (and new job does sound better if it works out) ? and nothing at all to stay your current job may be more stable?.it is just that professionally and personally I know some many people in non-profit positions that have been told ?things are not looking good?. I would want to have anyone I knew and cared about really really check into the new position and its projected stability, and why they expect your work load to grow overtime.