Hello Leah, It seems like you are in an interesting position. Now that is not always a bad place to be. There are definately some opportunities available to you. However you definately need to ask the right questions at this time. Are the employees who are leaving full time? Why is everyone leaving so abruptly right now? How are the current company's number doing? What is the future state of this company and your future state if you stay on full time. If the company is doing well and it was just coincidental that everyone is leaving this might be a good time to negotiate for better compensation. Chances are you will have a heavy workload until the company can restaff. Also if the other company does make you an offer that can be used as a bargaining chip. However if you feel this new company has a better future and suits your personal and professional needs then maybe it is time to move on to greener pastures. There is nothing wrong with wanting to better yourself. Just be sure to be professional when you discuss the new opportunity with your current employer. They may or may not be understanding. Just realize if they are less than courteous and professional not to take it personally. Chances are they are stressed with losing so many employees and trying to make sure deadlines met and work is maintained. In the end do what will make you happy and suit all your needs for the present and future. Go where the opportunities are and will continue to come. Remember as long as you are professional you can walk out with you head held high no matter how your current employer reacts and behaves to the news.

Hi Leah. I'm intrigued. Why do you want to leave your job? It seems to be a position with opportunity to grow. One of the things I observed is that the company believes in promoting from within. Unless you are altogether unhappy with the type of job, or the direction the company is going in, I would advise you to utilize the opportunity to have a one on one meeting with your current supervisor to make your concerns known. You obviously seem to have some degree of loyalty to the company. I further suggest that you re-evaluate your overall commitment level. This may actually be an open door to something much bigger than you could have imagined. Best wishes, Janice

Is there a boss that you can discuss this new position at your company with? Possibly find out a little more about the position and what their long term plans are ? Be assertive but not arrogant , after all this is your life, and livelihood?

You have to do what's best for you, what does your heart tell you. My advice, just ensure that all your ducks are in a row and ready for transition. Wish you all the best

Do what your gut instincts are telling you because in the long run, you have to be happy with your career moves. At this point, it is obvious to you that there is a reason for you wanting to leave. There are 2 other people on their way, they must have a high turnover rate for a reason. Make no mistake, it is no coincidence things happened this way. Good luck.

You are supposed to hear back one way or other? But you haven't yet? That means you haven't yet been HIRED, and you can't be sure that you will be. So what happens it you give notice and don't get hired?-- I know so well what happened to me in 1982. I had been trying to get on at a phone company. I was called; the guy knew I didn't drive; he said it was a downtown location, but that the two-week training center was not. Perhaps he meant to just wave that in front of me so he could take it away (he knew I didn't have a car), but I said maybe I could borrow money for cab fare for the two weeks. So I called my parents and my father said yes, they would loan me the cab fare. So I gave notice on my job in the kitchen. On a certain day, I was to go to the phone company building for a physical, and there was a woman there in a white uniform (a nurse, presumably), who gave me what she called a "questionnaire"). The questionnaire asked if I had ever had convulsions. Of course I had; I had already told the personnel manager over the phone I had a seizure disorder, just in case he wanted to back out, so there would be no misunderstanding. If he had backed out, I need not have left the kitchen. What did the dumb b**** think "seizure disorder" meant? So I said yes I had. So she said she could not recommend me to be hired if I had had convulsions. So I went into the personnel manager's office and reminded him that I had already told him I had a seizure disorder. And he told me he could not refuse me a job because I had a seizure disorder. (So this was an obvious mockery). Obviously, the two of them were in cahoots to make sure I didn't get the job. Which I didn't--but in order to make my notice compatible with the phone company's starting date, I had already given notice and been replaced. I had to get a job, so I scrambled around and got a job as a street vendor by the time the kitchen notice ran out. ----It's pretty clear to me that that personnel manager did it on purpose; perhaps when he told me the training center was not on the busline, he had merely meant to mock me by flashing something before my eyes that I couldn't have, but when he saw that I was dumb enough to rise to the bait, he saw a real chance to pull some s**t.---Why would he want to do that? Be- cause a few months previously he had called me and told me about a job on the busline be- ginning the next Monday, and I had turned him down because it wouldn't give me time to give a week's notice to my employer. And he had taken it as a slap in the face; he had thought that he was such a high mucky-muck that everybody should come running when he whistled, re- gardless of honor or loyalty to one's employer.- So maybe some people would pooh-pooh this notion, but I don't care. I wasn't born yes- terday, I'm 64 years old now, and I've seen plenty of dirty behavior, and I'm not about to let people lead me around by the nose and throw fecal matter in my face, and if you let them do it to you, you're an idiot.

You should never feel guilty about making yourself happy because you are the only person who is responsible for your own happiness. Obviously you're not at all satisfied working for this company or person and from the sound of it nobody else is either. I've worked in similar situations and that type of stress wears you down physically, emotionally and mentally. Good luck with making the right choice.

And?... Like Hector said, Don't take it personal. If you have another job lined up then grab it. No one is going to do for you what you can do for yourself. And, the lack of staff will roll down to you. Are you ready for that? I'd make a break

If it is the TYPE of work, and not the company, people, or workplace politics, I'd say yeah, go for the new job.

Hello Leah, You have to do some business soul searching. In other words, you have to ask yourself.... how well do I like my current position? Is it worth losing this job to start another? It is quite obvious that you are well liked and they appreciate your work at the current job. They offered you a full time opportunity you know. Ask yourself..... Do I like my current job well enough to not take the other opening if they offer me the job. Furthermore, it isn't good to keep jumping from one job to another thinking that the new job will be a better fit. So, think about it a couple of days, and you will come up with the right decision. Good luck!