So I work in a small not-for-profit organisation. 25 employees. We are mostly Brits, not in the UK.
Our longstanding boss recently retired. It was very difficult to find a replacement due to the niche nature of our organisation, and the managing board eventually settled on a replacement who has very little experience of our type of organisation, very little experience of the service that we deliver and zero management experience. What he does have is an elite British public school education, a great accent and a confident manner 🙄.
He's been in place for 6 months now and the cracks are really starting to show. He's probably heading for a burn-out. The staff that work on the ground have little respect for him as it's obvious that he doesn't understand their jobs or the pressures they experience: our previous boss worked for years at a lower level before moving up to run the organisation, so he really got it from their pov. He keeps blundering into stupid situations, because he lacks understanding and skills, and constantly shows how out of his depth he is.
My relationship to him is administrative, communications, general organising. I have worked hard to support him, because I'm there in a supporting role and it's my nature I guess. I'm getting paid overtime for some, but not all, of the extra time that is required to do this. But not everyone is wiling to do this, which I can also understand.
WWYD? Help him swim (which grates, when he's being paid the big bucks to run our organisation) or let him sink (which will have horrible consequences for the organisation, and likely be a very painful process - and we might not find anyone better anyway)?