I started a new job about 6 months ago, first few months all normal, fairly nice environment to work in. However the CEO of the company has now relocated to my office. I am directly responsible to him and interact with him several times during the day.
It’s a fast paced environment and we are all senior level with our own responsibilities and projects to work on. However the CEO deals with things so badly on a daily basis that’s it’s upsetting me everyday. His nature is to just shout across from his office someone’s name and they have to go running to sort out whatever he requires. Asks for a project completed one way then changes his mind and I have to start all over again (sometimes this causes mistakes).
The last few weeks have become unbearable with him, anything at all can set him off, shouting across the office or at members of staff… in fact last week while I was on the phone to another company he shouted down the phone for them to hang up and call back later on as I was to busy to answer their questions at the time. The constant aggressive demeanour shouting, pointing and quite frankly scary behaviour is now at peak level. I don’t know how to handle it, I’ve never had a man act this way towards me and other staff. My anxiety is through the roof and I turn into a shaking mess.
I really enjoy my job and need it badly so any advice on how to handle this situation is much appreciated.