I have a new supervisor at work, he's not my manager but is a position above me so he supervises our team. Our previous supervisors were great. They were really knowledgeable so when we had an issue they could help us out with it and help us troubleshoot.
Our new supervisor is fairly new but has been there longer than other staff members. However, he still doesn't understand things and I have had to train him and have him shadow me on some things to try and show him the ropes at his request. However, it is very frustrating as when we have an issue we have to go to him first, explain it and its significance and then ask him to escalate it, whereas before we would just tell our supervisor who would understand the issue and its context and then would escalate it quickly. Our new supervisor just seems to struggle understanding the protocol of what we do and as such we have nobody to ask for help/advice from so we have to ask him to ask the senior staff for us as he is our point of contact. He is also constantly asking us to do favours for him which are more of his job responsibilities than ours.
Another issue is that our workplace has a very relaxed attitude to when we take our breaks. We can take it at any time as long as as a team we alternate so that the office is never empty. As a result, some people take their lunch early (12-1pm), others prefer it later (3-4pm). Despite this, our supervisor is frustrated that there are times when the office is very quiet as half the staff are on lunch as it slows down our working pace and he blames it on those who want to take a later lunch at 3ish even though the way our lunches are spread out across the afternoon means there is a slow trickle of people taking their lunch break rather than everyone leaving at 1pm. He has started to constantly ask when we plan to take our lunches, and I mean constantly from 9am onwards he is asking about it. I needed to take my lunch at 3pm last week due to needing to take medication with my lunch at a certain time and we was constantly asking me about why I wanted to go at 3pm and then he started to lecture me on why it's important to take regular breaks to increase productivity and reduce burnout.
A couple of members of staff have left in the last few weeks due to his micromanagement.
I'm trying to be empathetic and sympathetic to someone who is relatively new but I am dreading work now and thinking of asking to move departments. I feel like I'm being mean and unreasonable which is so unlike me but I think I'm just feeling frustrated.