On Being Indispensable

I resigned yesterday. Letter & all. I gave a month notice (so I could train someone) and set my last day as April 21. The CEO had a late running meeting, so didn't come in until after 3PM. The 5 people I had gone to for venting & advice beforehand (3 managers, a VP & the Auditor) all kinda flipped out. The HR Manager (who I first gave the letter to) spent almost 2 hours talking to me (calming me down mostly & going over the 3 year history of crap between me and Former Boss-Lady). I took my last break shortly after 3 & when I came back, the CEO (my current Boss Lady) was in. I grabbed the letter of resignation off of HR Manager's desk, marched in the CEO's office & told her I had something for her to read. She read it....looked at me like I had grew a 2nd head....and asked me why. I told her that I had another blow-out with Former Boss-Lady & that I just couldn't take it anymore (this time Former Boss-Lady had made an error on something & when I went to double check on whether it was an error, or an actual procedure change....she got pissed at me & tried to make out like I was the one who made the error in the first place....even though I had an email to prove that the faulty documents I was working with came from her). I told the CEO that I had been putting up with being belittled & treated like I was incompetent for 3 years....and that I wasn't going to do it anymore. CEO said that Former Boss-Lady is on the way out....and I said that I was sick of hearing that, that I had held on the last 18 months just because of that particular promise....that she was going to retire. CEO said that Former Boss-Lady is supposed to be on a 'special project' basis as of the end of March (I'm not necessarily going to hold my breath).....and that from now on, to just not even talk to her. Anytime the Former Boss-Lady tries to talk to me about or get me to do anything Human Resources related...that I should tell her that she needs to take her issues to the HR Manager.....and if Former Boss-Lady tries to talk to me about or get me to do anything else....send her to the CEO. CEO said that I will be working with HR Manager on anything HR related, but that I should only have to and be answering to her, and occasionally the Exec. VP. So.....after talking to her for over 1/2 hour, I told her that I would rescind my resignation for now.....and watched her gleefully feed it to the shredder. After I left, the CEO cornered the HR Manager for a bit (HR Manager will pass on that conversation to me today), and when I left for the day, Former Boss-Lady was in her office. On my way out, I told the other people I had talked to during the day that I had rescinded my resignation, for now.....they were all quite relieved & happy. So....that's my day in a nutshell. How was yours?