Welp, my new boss may very well be very crazy, and I may have to quit, because of that. Nobody else has been at the place more than a couple months and I'm starting to see why. Also, everybody (but one person) quits that job, spectacularly. They don't even resign; they just walk out the door, never to return: attorneys, secretaries, everybody. The only person who has stayed is the boss' right-hand.... She's next to impossible to work for. If I'm gonna stay, it's workplace abuse like even I haven't been subjected to before and that's saying something.
Boss is actively sabotaging my productivity, because I literally can't do ANYTHING without express review or approval that NEVER comes. I can't send a 2 sentence letter without it being subject to multiple reviews and drafts.... I take example motions that the righthand man has used, filed in court, and won on, and use that as a template; Boss, goes, nuts says it is completely illogical and has no logical layout. Keep in mind, a judge granted this and it won after the other person in the firm filed it.... "See the examples and templates," I am told. Either what I'm using was the template or there is no template (I ask around for one, and nobody knows what to tell me). No wonder I haven't got anything done and there's a stack of things awaiting approval.... I can now see why everybody quits. I basically shut down my small little firm to work here. Shit.
"You need to get on the ball and take initiative...."
Holy shit, what? No, that's not what's going on. I haven't been there long, but I've been pulling 12 hour (from clock in to clock out) shifts for this person. I worked a 10 hour shift on my birthday for this person. Additionally, I had my own firm, and if I didn't do something, there was literally nobody else to do it and it didn't get done. Boss is not supervising/approving my work to send out/micromanaging the crap out of everything. It doesn't make sens that I'd go from being completely independent to lazy as heck. Something doesn't add up and it isn't me.