This job with the horribly micromanaging control freak has been the single worst job of my life! And to borrow a line from Halt and Catch Fire...

"I can't wait until the day I drive by the building and see the For Lease signs in front of it!"

This has been the most stress filled, must unreasonably run, most idiotically managed job I've ever had the misfortune of accepting. And I did it for a year. I am an engineer -- we are stubborn as a general trait. I tried to make the man happy. I tried to do my job to the best of my abilities. But he didn't want an engineer -- he wanted to do everything himself and just have someone else to blame when things weren't perfect.

So fuck him. I have a new job where they WANT someone to help them out and don't expect superhuman abilities while locking ALL the keys of the company in their office without backups.

I spent half a decade in SAC. And I was happy to see that last base in my rearview mirror, oh so happy. This feels exactly the same way -- so beaten down and scared to move, but move I must.