So I've been working for a small business for about 10 years. The pay is decent and the hours fit in with my schedule so in many ways I'm loathe to jump ship because 'better the devil you know'. But my boss is a nightmare. He habitually overbooks jobs, and also gives clients unrealistic timelines. So it then falls to me to explain to unhappy customers why we aren't meeting their expectations. I've asked him multiple times to give out more realistic timeframes but he dismisses me and says the rest of us just need to 'hurry up and work quicker'. He's always been like this and I've learned to manage it to a certain extent by following up his emails and phone calls with more factual information. But lately he's started just checking out of work in general. He's not completing jobs himself, not answering calls or emails and not even showing up some days. He called me Monday morning to let me know he was taking a day to chill out and didn't feel like working, I asked if he would be coming in Tuesday and he snapped that he was entitled to take leave and hung up. I haven't heard from him since and everything is pretty much falling apart. I'm p*ssed because no, he's a business owner and so he isn't really entitled to take leave like us employees are. He hasn't bothered to pay anyone to run the business for him while he's taking this leave, but I know that when he finally does show up he will lose his sh*t with me about all the things that haven't been done.
What I'm mostly annoyed about is that he thinks he can just disappear and expect us to run his business for him without paying us to reflect that. And that he wants the benefit of annual leave like an employee at the same time as getting 100% of the profits like a business owner.