Inexperienced Staff

We have been through four CFOs in my under a year here position as Accounting Manager. When I arrived, it was with a new CEO too. There were four people in accounting at that time. Two of which the CEO wanted me to fire. The other one potentially also, but she was the only one that knew the system. The system conversion from a few years previously was not done well, so invoices were not getting sent, etc. You get the picture of what I walked into here. So the first CFO I worked with, for only a few days, refused to stay. The second CFO last about three-four months, and left. The third one was here one month and left. The second CFO took a job out of state. All CFO's recommended I find another job. The first one is doing consulting work. The third one is still looking for something. The second one is trying to get me to move there to work for her. There are three people in the accounting department -- one is payroll/ap, the other is who knows what, the other is AR. The AR and the other have no background in accounting whatsoever and I find that I am spending most of month end fixing their errors. Thus, you can imagine the environment of fear they have so they are doing what they can to make my life miserable. We have brought in temps -- we are on our second temp, the first left because of those two staffers and how nasty they are. The second one refuses to be hired because she won't work for them and she, as well as the other, said they keep on trying to throw me under the bus and would not recommend I stay here either. The two temps have far more experience than anyone on the team now. My questions to everyone: What would you do? And if you would leave, what reason would you give to a potential employer for leaving under a year?