I have worked my butt off the last few weeks at work. Several projects completed and all okay. Then the big project - I could see I was going to struggle but my boss very kindly (sarcasm) was off sick when I needed her to look at stuff. I have a feeling she is struggling with workload (but she does insist on doing everyone's jobs i.e. no delegation). Then of course big project has loads of holes probs with it; I get the blame. Also boss accused me of lacking confidence (I have 12 years more experience than her and have worked in many other companies than she has - in a good way they would have me back) yet she undermines my confidence by bringing up little anecdotes in the office to put me down. I do get the job done, maybe not in the brutal way she wants it done because I want my staff to feel motivated. Thing is she has pressures on her. So what do I do.... I'm 47 got 9 and 5 year old children. The stress at work is not helping with DH either. My boss is a single parent and turned round to me once and said 'but you have DH' when I said I needed help with childcare. Also not entirely unconvinced she is in a RL with our big boss...