Preparing to leave Goodwill this summer

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HI everyone. Sorry I've been quiet for the past month or so. I've been dealing with a lot of self-care after work, besides playing with Bailey after dinner. I wanted to stop by to say hi and tell you what's been going on in my life since my last post. Work has been bringing me down lately. Though I've reached the one-year milestone this past January 30th at Goodwill, I agreed with Jamie and Danielle to stay on for 1.5 years. Due to some mitigating factors, things have changed. And I'm in the process of preparing to leave Goodwill sometime this summer. Mainly, it has caused me a lot of stress, mentally and physically. It's gotten a bit toxic with negative criticism and very little complimentary praise. Though I've gotten 3 bins every now and then, I average 2 to 2.5 bins every week, having one good day and three regular days. For every work performance meeting I've had up until January, everything was good, except for speed being the main factor. My supervisor mentions that I'll be job coached by my assistant manager every time. But it never happened. Yesterday, she brought in somebody from the Goodwill outlet store to job coach me this week on quick sorting. Too little too late. She said she wanted to try something new and I'll do fine. I disagree with her 100%. I don't trust her. I had to sign her freaking papers for every meeting to document my performance. It only hinders my confidence twofold. Last fall, I've hurt my neck, and my upper back by moving the manual pallet jack to carry a heavy Gaylord box to the back of the room. Therefore, I can't move anything over 10 pounds and have avoided doing the Gaylord boxes. I've told this to them many times-my neck and upper back won't be getting any better, if I do it again with my osteoarthritis of the neck and Wear and Tear Scoliosis. I'm going as fast as I can too. Retail is sort of out of the equation right now, except maybe cashiering. And that's another thing.... I've never ever been cross-trained once to be a cashier (my original goal), and be a tagger/hanger. Every time I ask for it, or put it down on my tracker sheet for the past seven months, it goes unanswered, probably due to my speed. And there's empty promises, false hopes, and no future growth for me there. I need to move on. Only my coworker friend Jessica gives me confidence, when I tell her via text or in person, how many bins I've hit. I'll miss the people there. But when I leave, I won't miss the job. I originally planned to start this process a month from here, when I'm on my only (and perhaps last) work vacation. But I've called OOD yesterday and this morning to reopen my case, and tell them my circumstances to leave Goodwill ASAP. I don't have to worry about emailing my application like I did back in 2022. I won't be with Jamie. Rae will be my new job counselor. And I'll hear back from her, early next week. And though I've texted and called Danielle, I hope we can team up again next week. I'll do my best to hang in there longer, and wait to quit my job when I have something better lined up this summer to say goodbye. Since October last year, when I've gotten work-related anxiety, I've been using the Finch app for self-care purposes. Sorry for the long post. I just wanted to share my rant and rave about my upcoming future exit from Goodwill this mid-summer. I'll keep you posted, and hope to be more active this week to check in with posts, toward this weekend.