Thanks for the thoughts on this everyone. It is greatly appreciated!!
First to be clear - I wouldn’t quit my current job before being invited to work for someone else… (Even after erroneously receiving an email in which the owner said very unpleasant things about me… I didn’t quit…)
Yes, @Leon - my current employer is not pleasant to work for; over Xmas/Jan last year 8 people walked with no job to go to - due to the way the owner treats people. I’ve been there around 3.5 years, and there would be maybe 4 people (out of 40) who were there when I started, and many roles have been filled multiple times over.
I have suggested that I write some kind of manual for my role/s a few times, and been told “that’s pointless”. However if I did walk out the door, the CFO would be picking up the pieces for a long time… One of my team members left 6 months ago, and her replacement is still only doing 1/2 of what was being done in that role, with the rest farmed out to other people - similarly, I’m looking after several people’s worth of tasks that I’ve picked up along the way - If they did have to replace me, there’s no way they’d be able to get 1 person to do it all…
I have heard that this particular job agency has no qualms putting people up for jobs they “don’t fit” just to get a placement (they’ve asked me several times already to go for Accountant roles, and I’m not a qualified accountant), so wouldn’t be surprised if it’s also a case of them being the ones pushing for an immediate starter - especially as they filled the role with someone who has then left “early” to go interstate (or so I’ve been told… Could be a bad sign in itself!)
Even with things as bad as they are where I am, I wonder if/when I leave, whether it’ll be a case of out of the frying pan, into the fire…