NC for this well just because I can
Been at my current job for about a year and a half.
My boss is one of those people that is easily distracted, knows everything about everything and is the go to guy in the business. He is also highly skilled
I am technically an expert in my field and with my specific area of work i am more skilled with the more up to date skillset.
I have been getting really down about work and found myself losing sight of my skillset ... why... well basically because my boss keeps getting involved in all I do. He tells me how i should do something rather than leave me to decide the best approach. He will physically go into things i have done and undo the work saying i have "made it too complicated" without asking me to justify my approach in the first place. I am starting to feel like i am an incompetent fool, but i know i am not. When i have clarity of thought i think he is one of those managers that finds it difficult to not be hands on and thats the problem, but i am more and more clouded by the way he wades in with both feet and i feel undermined all the time. Its not just me, its all his direct reports and i have to remind myself of that.
Aibu to leave now before i get completely dummed down and lose sight of my career.
Its a small company and i have considered HR but i think i will be the one alienating myself if I approached them. I have tried talking directly to him, he is not the most approachable person and when feelings are broached i get " sorry to hear that" in such a deadpan "i really need you to not talk about this" way it really puts you off.
Sometimes i think i am being too sensitive, but i dont know, maybe i have just been lucky before now with managers that leave me to get on with my work.
I dont know, aibu, is this what bosses do?