Apologies for the long rant.
My team lead is a certified workaholic. He can’t take a day off without checking in or doing work from home, and feels like he can’t trust the rest of the team to function without him. It got so bad he was preparing to change positions to a less stressful role in the company, paving the way for me to take his position and pay raise as the next most senior person on the team.
Cut to my “dumb” decision to have a child and take 8 weeks FMLA, and while I’m gone the lead decides he doesn’t want to leave and is keeping his job. I don’t find out till I come back, which is great. So now there is no clear path for promotion in the company for me and I’m stuck spinning my wheels. But hey they did give me a small raise as a token for the loss of the promotion.
Icing on the cake is he dresses me down after 2 weeks back for basically not doing his work on top of mine while he’s busy with whatever else he has to do, and feels like he did before he almost quit again because I’m not making it easy for him. I do my job, it’s not my problem if he’s so wacked he can’t turn off work brain for a day.
I have a third interview at a new position today, god I hope it works out.