Work's been a bitch the past month. To the point where I've been looking for alternatives including other jobs and further schooling.

To give an example with the level of shit I've been dealing with lately, I'll share a generalization of what happened today.

I got an email asking why I was not working on a bug that was delaying the next release and instead had added a new bug to be tested and added to the next release. The email was rather nasty, asking why my manager could not get any coordination and when the unscheduled projects stop. He couldn't "get it" in his very condescending email.

I was immediately infuriated at the email. The bug I worked on was a problem introduced by the new release and an easy fix that required less than five minutes of testing to confirm that it was working okay. I was even more angry when I realized that the bug I was accused of not working on, the very same holding up the release, had been marked as resolved--and a duplicate--over 24 hours at the time the email was scent.

I responded by asking my manager to check our bug-tracking system to get the current information before asking why I wasn't on task. I explained that the bug--and all of the bugs in the release--were in the testing stage meaning that the support team was supposed to be confirming or denying their validity and also that no one was waiting on a dev to do work. I punctuated the email saying that we'd have better communication when everyone was using information that wasn't a day behind.

Perhaps my response was unprofessional, but it's important to remember that MY business is contracted by THEIR business. I am not an employee, and after a month of similar bullshit, constant headaches, and other nasty emails, I am tired of it.

What can I do when the manager would rather question the integrity of the entire product rather than admit blame for EVERYONE not finding a bug? Not only did he choose to invalidate the integrity, but he then chose to ignore the would-be consequences.

He regularly changes "history" on how things happened to suit his needs.

He regularly will get angry about a bug that's "new" and wants to know how it got broken when it's something that has been broken for months and problematic OR has always been broken with no user-facing results.

I got an urgent email a few weeks back because he was negotiating with other companies to buy the product, and the special code he gave them to test the product didn't work. "Why isn't this working?" "Why is it broken now?" You can read the anger in his emails. The sad thing? This was the second time this happened, and both times he gave out the WRONG code. The first time was immediately when the code was created and he copy/pasted it wrong.

I've started working an extra two hours a day for a three day weekend to try and alleviate some of the stress, but I don't know how long I'm going to last.

The worst part is...when this management failure BS isn't happening, I like my job. I get to pick my own hours, work from home, make really good pay....

But it's hell when I make a simple, five-minute fix that then requires me to spend HOURS on justifying why I did it. This is after a year of having very little management at all.