I’ve been in my new job for a couple of months now. I enjoy the job and find it interesting, but I’m really struggling with my new manager.
She’s making it clear that I will never have any autonomy in my role. She has experience in what I do, and even though I was told I would be “taking responsibility for X”, she is asking to vet every single piece of work that I do, and most of it she completely rewrites or redesigns.
I’ve been doing this job for almost 10 years. I’m in a manager-level role, this isn’t a junior position and I’m finding it really degrading essentially having my work ‘marked’ by someone. She has even admitted herself that she’s a nit picker, and a lot of her changes are “subjective”, so it’s not like I’m doing anything wrong, so to speak. I’ve always had exceptional attention to detail and I’ve never been in this situation before.
I don’t know what to do. I really like the job, I just hate the control she has to have over every little thing. Every suggestion for improvement I’ve made is met with “oh no that wouldn’t work” without any further explanation. It seems very much like she’s set in her ways and has her “way” of doing things, and won’t hear of anything otherwise.
Has anyone dealt with a situation like this before? What would you recommend? I don’t want to leave, but I don’t think I could put up with this for much longer.