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My manager asked if things were okay… How do I take the conversation forward?

My manager (who had started off a promising leader) has become a typical “everyone should work all the time and vacation days are against our culture” ass. She also has a tendency to push her work onto other people, shirk things that are her responsibility, etc. and as her direct junior, the repercussions on me are immediate. After a year of this crap, this year I've been doing the bare minimum, refusing to take on her workload, not responding to emails and messages after work hours. There have also been several instances when she's thrown me under the bus with coworkers (who are supposed to report to me directly), made decisions that affect me without taking my input, tried to involve me (i.e. pass off) an event that is supposed to be her responsibility. So now I just don't respond. A few days ago, she tried to pick up a…


My manager (who had started off a promising leader) has become a typical “everyone should work all the time and vacation days are against our culture” ass. She also has a tendency to push her work onto other people, shirk things that are her responsibility, etc. and as her direct junior, the repercussions on me are immediate. After a year of this crap, this year I've been doing the bare minimum, refusing to take on her workload, not responding to emails and messages after work hours.

There have also been several instances when she's thrown me under the bus with coworkers (who are supposed to report to me directly), made decisions that affect me without taking my input, tried to involve me (i.e. pass off) an event that is supposed to be her responsibility. So now I just don't respond.

A few days ago, she tried to pick up a conversation asking if everything was okay with me and between us and if there's anything else going on? I brushed it off because I don't want to engage in any additional conversation with her, however I wonder if this might have been a good time to confront her about the shit she's been pulling and that it's not going unnoticed.

Advice? Suggestions on taking it forward?

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