Big Changes at Work ??

There might be some big changes at work. The entire thing started during my Thanksgiving Vacation. My direct superior and I do have a very good working relationship and we do know each other on a personal level as well. So she called me Tuesday during my vacation to inform me that there has been an incident. And begged me not to overreact when the boss is going to talk to me next week. I promised that I will try my best not to overreact. The one thing she is afraid of most is that I get so pissed of and quit my job.
Here are the details. I kinda aware of the fact that certain account statements have not been recorded for a number of month. It would have been my co-workers responisbility to make me aware of that fact. Yes, it could have occured to me as well...but it really isn't my job to control those kinds of things. Face is, that about 3 weeks ago my co-worker and I were looking for those account statements everywhere. And the statements were nowhere to be found. So I told my co-worker to get copies of the statements from the credit card company and then do the recording of the statements himself. He got the the replacement copies but didn't record the expenses. Another co-worker needed the information, but instead of talking to one of us he had nothing better to do than to talk to the boss himself. That's in my opinion just childish. Suddenly the original account statemnets appeared in my trays where I specifically know that I didn't put it there and I know as well that I looked through that tray 3 weeks ago. Someone had them apparently and doesn't want to take responsibility for it.
I do have a good idea how that conversation is gonna go next week. The boss is gonna yell around...and as soon as he does I don't listen to him anyways. The he's gonna try to tell me about accounting procedures and I will tell him what is fact and what isn't. And will be pointing out indirectly how little he actually knows about accounting. That the boss doesn't like that, is something I can understand. But the truth has to stay the truth, regardless of the consequences. And knowing how conversations like that have gone with other co-workers in the past, I'm pretty sure at some point he's gonna result to personal insults. And that's something I'm not going to stand for. Besides that personal insults are explicitly forbidden by law. And if my boss tries to tell me something about the quality of my work I will have to tell him, that he has neither the knowledge nor the qualification to evaluate the quality of my work. And things might go downhill from there. So there is a good possibility that I'm gonna quit my job. Criticism based on facts is one thing, yelling and personal  insults is an entirely different thing. And I'm not gonna stand for the latter one.
But I'm not a guy of rash descissions. I know enough about workers comps and unemployment comps to figure out at what time and with what amout I would be able to collect unemployment. And I also looked into regs for giving notice to quit my job. Fact is I can only do that by End of December without getting any penalties. With that being said I have enough vaction days left that I would probably only have to work for a couple of days in Demcember and the rest I would be using my paid vacation days. And of course I calculated how much unemployment I would be able to collect. And it turns out it's enough to pay for housing and untilities. The rest of the living costs would have to come out of my savings. But fortunately I do have a nice savings account and could afford that.
And the more I thought about it, the more positive aspects I could find. Being 2 month off work would mean that I could have my VAT & Corporate Tax Specialist Certification much sooner than while working full time. I do know the direction I want to go and fact is that from the point of my career my current job isn't getting me anywhere. I've reached the maximum that I can reach in this company. Lots of the stuff I know I can't really use in my current job and not using a knowledge means that you slowly start to forget it. And that's not somehthing I'm particularly fond of. And truth to be told there are currently quite a number of job openings in accounting in Vienna. So I really wouldn't be scared to take that step.
Taking a couple of month off would allow me to focus on developing and setting up a second stream of income, that might become quite important in the near future.
You might say that I'm currently at a crossroad. It's not entirely clear where it's gonna go, but it's definitely an interesting place to be in.