What do I do about the snake?

[MsJayne]

Situation: Further to my vent on short redheads yesterday….

For several years, (7 to be exact), I was always in charge of specific admin tasks in the building office where I work.  I’m the company accounts person, but I also was responsible for sending out tender invitations and collating the quotes, hunting down the job certificates, helping with marketing brochures, maintaining all the associated databases and a few other things. These things made my job interesting and gave me variety. I loved my job back then.  About 5 years earlier we had started up another building company, and we had employed a guy, (who shall be called Snake, and who is short with red hair), as an estimator specifically for this second company. That company ended up dying a slow death at the end of July 2016.  In August 2016, without anyone saying anything to me, all my tasks outside of accounting were taken over by Snake. To this day I do not know whether my boss told him to do this or he just did it. I was really upset and angry at the time and felt totally undermined and really didn’t know what to do. I didn’t want Snake to lose his job, and I’m not an office tittle-tattle, and on top of that I began to wonder if my boss had done this on purpose to get rid of me. It was such a rude and disrespectful way to treat me that I failed to see how anyone in the office could have missed what took place as there’s only 6 of us here, and I really started to think they were helping me out the door. I have quietly been peeved about this treatment ever since, (some days bordering on a little psycho when I’ve been bored and the time’s dragging), and my job has become uninteresting and I often find myself with not enough to keep me occupied.  On Monday this week, when I was talking through the end month reports with my boss, he asked me if I would cut back my hours being as I don’t have enough to fill them.  I‘ve been here 15 years, I’m a loyal and reliable employee, and very good at my job. The last accounts woman was here for seven years and left one day in a fit of rage, slamming the door so hard they say it made the windows rattle. I think it was the covert sexism that sent her over the edge.  So, my question is, should I just suck it up and find another job, (not easy at my age and especially not at the moment), or should I make a big deal out of it? 

[Foxhall]

 start being more vocal yourself,

you could agree to reducing your hours but you could also argue for working from home most of the week, I notice a trend of a lot of accounting work moving remotely based

get some of the work on your terms also, be heard and dont let them bully you.