I can do your job better!

Don't you just love it when you've been excelling at something for nearly 10 years, and the new boss (who only arrived this year) comes and tells you how to do your job? Today he came by and insisted I bend just about every rule the college has made so that a few students don't get "put off" and we lose them. I almost lost it. It was all I could do to not open my big mouth and say something nasty. I did tell him I've been doing this a while and know how to handle applications - and that there is a minimum of requirements I need before I'll process an application. I don't think he was listening though.

I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. We desperately need students, and so some (like my boss) want me to "unofficially" drop the entry requirements. But then the academic departments moan at me when their students aren't up to standard. The obvious way to go would be to uphold the policies of the college, even if we lose students. But that's going to get me into hot water with the boss, the financial manager and others who look at student numbers instead of quality.

On top of this situation, I've had a load of other work dumped my way, and it's a half-day on Fridays - so tension and rushing is the order of the day! Thank goodness the weekend is upon us. Thank goodness I am able to switch off when I leave work and only switch on again on Monday. And thank goodness I'm finally learning not to let folk beat me into a corner, not to be a complete people pleaser, not to just shut up and be walked over.