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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How quickly would you like to leave? Give them more than 2 weeks, which it seems like you would do, and do it right away if you are ready to leave soon. What are the communication issues and is the micromanagement new? [/quote]

Contractually I have to give 4 weeks notice.  I am not in a rush, but I can feel that things are going downhill and I’d rather leave while there is no bad blood.

Communication issues boil down to the fact that both parents don’t communicate with me much, but DB especially never replies to anything I send or at least not until weeks later.  The only time we ever get to go over anything is at the end of my 13 hour shift and no, I don’t want to stay and talk (unpaid).  I want to go home.  I have offered to chat during the day when kids are in camp or napping but he always forgets.  I have also offered to meet once a month for a planned-ahead checkup after my shift, for which I would charge, but he can’t get it together to schedule one ahead of time, and MB doesn’t want us meeting without her and she’s never free then anyway.  So I can either communicate on his terms or not at all.

If they were just hands-off parents then I could deal.  MB is like that.  She reads my weekly update email (telling them about stuff coming up and things I am doing with kids and changes to schedule, etc.) promptly most of the time but if she forgets and I move forward with whatever i think is best she’s like, “I trust your judgement and you tried to get my feedback in advance so whatever you picked is fine.”  She wants to enjoy time on the weekends with her kids and she doesn’t care about the nitty-gritty of whether we are in this or that summer camp as long as everyone is having fun. DB responds even less often than she does but then when he finally catches up 3 weeks later he wants to nitpick everything I am doing.  I feel like I can’t move forward without his feedback but I also never get any feedback until it’s too late.[/quote]

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