I’m training my replacement for the job I resigned today. OMG… it is so validating. He is angry. He is frustrated. He doesn’t understand when the boss speaks her weird gibberish speak and he talks back to her IMs because he finds them extremely condescending.
I have worked with this person for nearly four years. I have known him to be calm and good natured. To see this boss bring out the worst in him as she did in me is extremely validating.
On the other hand, I feel bad for him. But, we all make our choices and he is choosing to go into this knowing all the crappy things I’ve said about it.
It’s just nice to see that it wasn’t all me, ya know? People kept suggesting to me that the situation COULDN’T POSSIBLEY be as nuts as I said it was and that maybe it was me just making things hard or crazy or something. Now I get to see first hand that these isn’t (at least in large part) the case.
I even suggested that my negative reviews of the job were just my POV and maybe he’d see things 180 degrees differently. By this time, he had already had three hours of exposure to his new boss… and he responded with no- this boss is weird and difficult.
In other news, I had another interview today. The interview went over an hour and a half, so I’m thinking that’s a good sign that I will get a job offer. The team lead seems very calm and secure. He says he is laid back and doesn’t like to micromanage one little bit. He also says he believes in taking full lunch breaks and that two much overtime is counter productive… so, I might even take this job if offered. We shall see….
–AngryGrayRainbows
Angry Gray Rainbows 
Validation! Don’t you just love it?? I’m sorry for the man trying to learn this job and seeing the supervisor’s stupidity from the start but at least he’s not going into it blind. It’s not like he doesn’t know what he’s in for.
I never doubted what you were saying for an instant. I’m so glad you’re getting out of there!