My boss is insane and I'm working myself ragged trying to keep our team afloat. Yes, I'm looking for other work already.
I have no time and am working unpaid overtime to keep the team from sinking.
Last month, if I had not gone way above and beyond on this point, we would've blown tons of deadlines and been screwed.
I've informed boss they are burning the place down around us and we need to focus on not getting burned.
He has agreed on all my points but he is stubborn as hell and won't shut up and do things the easy way to avoid hell.
He's being dumb and they actually basically threatened to fire him: "We can't guarentee you won't be part of the layoffs."
Despite this, he won't shut up and make things easier. Yes, people might get screwed by that but it's not our fault, we're victims of it.
Either we get laid off or we don't and our workload doubles. It's hell and he's acknowledged this.
He's mentioned "Honor." and doing things right. That won't pay the bills or matter if/when we get downsized.
Not meeting numbers would make that more likely.
He has like 2 years left to retirement in this mess and won't shut up and realize the rest of us are not in that position.
He keeps me on the phone for like an hour or two a day. I'm putting out fires that way and I don't have time.
I need to focus on MY work and he frankly needs to leave me alone to let that happen. If not, we're going to blow deadlines.
I don't care .... I should but I'm not being allowed to. He's a problem. Killing our health won't make his concerns of doing things right matter. We aren't being given the time/resources to do things right. He doesn't wanna bend. So he'll break. But he might take me with him. This is god damn insane.
He's repeatedly told me everything I'm saying is right. He is holding onto delusions.
If I don't focus on what I have to do, then we will have no margin for error when the next big project comes and we are screwed.