At what point would you start searching for a new job?
Incident #1: Your boss leaves and you get the interim job and express interest in having it permanently. The VP says you are very qualified but hires someone else from another division of the company to do it
Incident #2: While in the interim position you talk to a few colleagues and collectively decide to reword a policy. Your new manager tells you that only the VP is allowed to make such a change. You explain that is not the case and your new manager says “You may be right on that, but I do not believe you that you collaborated with colleagues. Regardless you must undo the rewording” She then redoes the wording for you without clearing it through the VP and sends it to you in an email copying your directs. She takes away some of your authority in the new policy.
Incident #3: You and one of your directs write a policy based on a survey of 150 customers. One of your customers mentions to your manager that he is not happy with the new policy. Your boss then contacts your direct to rewrite it and includes some things in the policy that are a violation of corporate policy. Your direct tries to explain that and your boss does not care to hear it. Your direct notifies you of the situation. When you speak with your boss about it, she understands pretty quickly.
Incident #4: You are in a meeting where your boss disagrees with your direct about where to place a comma. Your boss then sends him an email calling him "careless, inappropriate, and egotistical" and copies personnel. Your direct shows the email to you.
Incident #5: You follow a flow chart established with your previous manager to make a routine decision. Your boss then says to you in front of your whole team and about 30 other people: “Who told you that you can make such a decision? That is a subjective decision only I can make” You then explain the flow chart and she says “Listen - I am a micromanager. You have no authority over your team. Quite frankly, they shouldn’t even be emailing you on anything - they should be emailing me and copying you”
Incident #6: The VP publicly says you are a model manager because you get a lot of customer feedback. Your boss then privately tells you that you get too much customer feedback.
Incident #7: You start an email discussion with a group of people. Your boss does a reply-all and says she decides and no one else gets input.
Incident #8: Your boss tells you never to contact her unless it is an emergency.
Incident #9: Your boss pulls you aside and says you need to stop intentionally leaving her out.
Incident #10: Your boss makes a bad decision. You try to caution her from your experience but she doesn’t care to hear it. She then admits it is a mistake but chooses to go ahead anyways and asks you to fix all the issues that arise as a result.
Incident #11: Your boss tells you that you are to do all the work for your team but all things must be signed with her name so the team thinks she did it.
Incident #12: You overhear your boss describing you as "overly ambitious and disobedient"
Incident #2: While in the interim position you talk to a few colleagues and collectively decide to reword a policy. Your new manager tells you that only the VP is allowed to make such a change. You explain that is not the case and your new manager says “You may be right on that, but I do not believe you that you collaborated with colleagues. Regardless you must undo the rewording” She then redoes the wording for you without clearing it through the VP and sends it to you in an email copying your directs. She takes away some of your authority in the new policy.
Incident #3: You and one of your directs write a policy based on a survey of 150 customers. One of your customers mentions to your manager that he is not happy with the new policy. Your boss then contacts your direct to rewrite it and includes some things in the policy that are a violation of corporate policy. Your direct tries to explain that and your boss does not care to hear it. Your direct notifies you of the situation. When you speak with your boss about it, she understands pretty quickly.
Incident #4: You are in a meeting where your boss disagrees with your direct about where to place a comma. Your boss then sends him an email calling him "careless, inappropriate, and egotistical" and copies personnel. Your direct shows the email to you.
Incident #5: You follow a flow chart established with your previous manager to make a routine decision. Your boss then says to you in front of your whole team and about 30 other people: “Who told you that you can make such a decision? That is a subjective decision only I can make” You then explain the flow chart and she says “Listen - I am a micromanager. You have no authority over your team. Quite frankly, they shouldn’t even be emailing you on anything - they should be emailing me and copying you”
Incident #6: The VP publicly says you are a model manager because you get a lot of customer feedback. Your boss then privately tells you that you get too much customer feedback.
Incident #7: You start an email discussion with a group of people. Your boss does a reply-all and says she decides and no one else gets input.
Incident #8: Your boss tells you never to contact her unless it is an emergency.
Incident #9: Your boss pulls you aside and says you need to stop intentionally leaving her out.
Incident #10: Your boss makes a bad decision. You try to caution her from your experience but she doesn’t care to hear it. She then admits it is a mistake but chooses to go ahead anyways and asks you to fix all the issues that arise as a result.
Incident #11: Your boss tells you that you are to do all the work for your team but all things must be signed with her name so the team thinks she did it.
Incident #12: You overhear your boss describing you as "overly ambitious and disobedient"
