Yep. My boss can be extremely frustrating.

The man is not technical, and often ignores those of us that are. That's fine, but he also doesn't read our reports (that we write for him. He just forwards them to his boss,) Doesn't track budget, or prioritize work. He meddles with projects when he wants to accelerate a timeline, but doesn't really communicate those goals well. He takes credit when things go well, and throws his team under the bus when something makes him look bad.

We did an exchange migration a few months ago, and we'd laid out project phases and milestones. The plan for cutting people over was basically, move over IT, then a set of designated "beta testers", then a larger group of end users, then mass migration. Testing and observation processes were laid out ahead of time for each of these phases. At some point. Someone asked him how the move was going, which he interpreted as, "this needs to be done now." So, he asked me if we could cut everyone over at once. I gave my opinion, and instead of expressing his concerns about an accelerated timeline, he said, "ok" and walked away.

Turns out, he went and called the contractor we'd been working with to cut over all of the executives and about half of the departments, all at once. This failed tremendously, and I ended up having to answer for it somehow, and so did the contractor.

A similar thing happened with a migration from Novell to DFS. During budget planning, he stripped out the hardware line items for a VDI project without telling anyone - while leaving the ones for software. Now he's trying to find a way to get it into this year's budget, and he's telling the CTO that it's because of a lack of planning on my part - and I'm not allowed to talk to the CTO about my concerns as per this manager's directives. (I had cost calculated down to cost per user, per month, as well as the project's milestones, the operational life cycle of the thing, cost-benefit analysis, etc. far ahead of time)

Meanwhile, he's got several line items still in the budget that have already been purchased.

And all the while, he tells me that I'm doing everything fantastically (the guy avoids anything that he thinks will cause conflict.) - and then runs to the CTO and tells him what horrible employees his team is.

There is a long laundry list of things the guy does that runs me the wrong way. Honestly, I'm not exactly sure what the man actually does. It was extremely frustrating - to the extent that it was severely impacting my home life.

And then I stopped giving a fuck. I do what I can, and just do my job to the best of my ability. It's clear that I'm doing something wrong, but without anyone to tell me what, there's no way I'll be able to get ahead or fix it. My coworkers are in similar boats, so it isn't just me at least. I have a few projects I'd like to wrap up before jumping ship, and I don't think I'm in immediate danger of being canned. So I'll just do my work and not worry about anything else. When I get in the car, I'm done. There's no official on-call, so if I miss an alert, I don't worry about it. And I've never felt more relaxed.