3 months ago I joined a company as a software engineer. My manager (who is supposed to be a technical manager) has 0 idea about basic technical stuff. his job title is a technical title that is usually only given to people with 10+ years experience in the software industry, but somehow he is hired there.
Before realizing how naive he is, we were having a casual conversation and discussing current tasks' progress and deadlines, and I made a mistake of sharing too much information with him such as automating tasks through bash scripts and other ways. which he surprisengly responded by “so you are lazy and don't want to work?”. I was shocked by his response because it is well known that good software engineers leverage automation where applicable.
Not only that he considers automation laziness, but whenever I see a bad code quality or an anti-pattern from others' code and try to improve it, he responds by calling me a “show off” or “you just complain about everything”.
Recently, I found out from someone in the company that he is publicly discussing with our team members whether he should fire me or not. I truly believe he behaves this way because he is insecure about his technical skills and considers me a threat.
I am aware that quitting is the optimal option here, but until that is possible, how would you deal with this kind of management?