Moody and Ranting

Thank goodness it's Friday because I don't know how much more of this week I can take. I am exhausted for no reason, my eyes are dry and feel heavy, I'm constantly cold and want to curl up in bed. And this exhaustion is not helping this surging irritability within me. I am avoiding my phone, and the emails I am getting make me want to scream. I do not want to see my boss's name on an email or hear him on the phone ONE MORE TIME today. I'm sick of him. His over-positive, under-handed personality make me want to kill him. He says he's SO happy to have me back on his team and he has all the faith in the world in my ability, and blah blah blah. Uh-huh, whatever. Then why do I feel like crap in this new "world"? He wants to get involved and make sure to faze out any work I am doing that is not under his directive...which is so pig-headed and shortsighted of him. What kind of "team player" message does that send? Poor Ed, who has no one else in this office to help him with his administrative work, is about to get attacked for wasting my time and efforts. Not only that, but it is very insensitive of him to so boldly exclaim how he intends to strip me of all other high-level work I'm doing. Doesn't he realize that this was a bit of a demotion for me? And that by announcing all of his intentions, it's like getting a swift kick in the stomach?

I just feel so powerless working for him. When I worked for Ed, my opinions and concerns meant something. He appreciated them. Now, they are no more appreciated than the next clod working in the same capacity. If you could just know some of the incompetance in this department! And now he has said that he won't tolerate any "ratting out" or complaining about each other within the department. He wants us to work out our disputes amongst each other on our own. Well, if he knew anything about anything in HR, he would know that sometimes that's not possible. Sometimes mediation is required to resolve conflict. Sometimes his people aren't as QUALIFIED as he thinks. But can I express my concern? No. And I certainly can't tell HER that I think she's an idiot. Wouldn't make a difference even if I did. So I don't care, she can ruin that entire division and it doesn't faze me at all since it no longer affects my people. He can deal with it after she's gone and the poor bastard after her has to answer for and correct everything. Not my problem. But that's the kind of macro-managing (he doesn't even know what we're doing half the time), overly logistical, non-HR mentality idiot that I am now working for. I just try to keep my mouth shut and stay under the radar (which is hard for me) so that I don't direct too much unwanted attention my way.