I hope this is the right place to post this. I could use some advice. I live alone and work from home so don’t have an outlet. I’m at a breaking point today so I thought I’d make a post to vent and hopefully get some advice. I don’t feel safe speaking to anyone in the business in fear of lack of confidentiality and I fear confronting my boss because I’m on a fixed term contract, hopefully on the cusp of permanency, and I don’t want to risk my boss terminating me. I’d like to think I have support from some of his seniors where it would be out of his hands but I do not trust him and do not know the depths of his Machiavellian nature.
My boss is out of his depth, intellectually black and white and quite bombastic in meetings. He has recently been undermined with another manager being brought in above him to run the department he previously headed. It’s a new department which he helped implement but as the company grows and professionalises, with the implementation of new specialisms within the department, and as I said a new hire brought in above him to manage the department, I feel he is clambering for position and belittling others contributions to assert his superiority.
His behaviour is quite abusive in a Jekyll and Hyde type of way. He encourages your contribution to important business discussions by inviting you to meetings for active participation but relishes an opportunity to blindside you with an on the spot request with a lustfully mischievous grin in hope of you sinking or interrupts you in the middle of presenting a nuanced idea with a dismissive tone claiming things aren’t relevant when they most definitely are and minimises the severity of the issues you bring to the table. He then bombastically asserts himself by taking over your presentation. I hope others see his behaviour and have his card marked but it’s making me increasingly angry and anxious. I understand he’s feeling insecure but he’s trying to position himself by undermining my intellect and presumably takes any chance to amplify my shortcomings and mistakes in a smear campaign. Please help me tackle this.