I have been working at this company for almost a year, and although the job is boring and not at all what i actually like to do. I manage to do a good enough job to not have people bothering me about results. I made commission since i started and I work my hours as i should, nothing less nothing more.
A couple months ago we got a new manager and everything went downhill from there. The guy is extremely annoying, always talking to us like we're on some sort of sports team, being condescending and wanting to baby sit and talk to everyone on a daily basis. I hate it. I don't like to have my work micromanaged and there's not reason for that given I'm a good employee.
I've been having a lot of difficulties since he started, because he wants to talk to me all the time making me waste time that i could be calling clients or doing my actual job. The other day he scheduled a meeting for the same time I'm finishing up. I ended up staying over an hour later and it messed up all my plans for the evening. The only reason the call ended was because i mentioned i was late for an appointment. He works late every day and it feels he expects us to do the same.
I'm exhausted. It feels like my job is a endless race, every time we reach a goal the goal doubles, we have no down times, we're all stressed and annoyed by him but no one has the guts to say anything.
I've been looking for another job for a couple of months but no luck yet. I'm almost giving up on everything and going back to the restaurant industry. My head hurts constantly, I'm extremely stressed out and scared of getting fired for not reaching one of the thousands of metrics we have. Because in his head we all have to perform in an extremely high level even though half of the things we have to do are not in our control.
I'm sorry for the long vent, I just want to know if anyone else been through this and how they managed to brush off their own managers and who could I talk to in the company about that? Granted, i don't trust HR to do anything good for the employees because we all know they work in the interest of the company.