How to navigate working with a toxic boss
I am very passionate about my job. Im a perfectionist and love to dive in to problems and solve them. Ive been working under a new leader recently. They are not my direct report day to day but everyone on my team is affected by them.
We are understaffed and have been for quite some time.
There is a lot of overlap on projects and assignments.
We’ve recently hired more people to help but it doesn’t seem to be working because things are not improving and nothing is getting taken off our plates only added.
This leader gate keeps from other teams and does not collaborate, gossips, curses on meetings frequently, has emotional/angry breakdowns every other week and on our daily meetings everyone is terrified to speak up or ask for help because they know they will be met with silence or negative feedback. They give like 1 word or 1 sentence instructions with barely any context or details when requesting you to do a task, they very seldom give good feedback to anyone and only criticize. They will tell you something is extremely urgent and then later on forget about the issue and say its taken care of, which wastes time and takes your whole agenda away because you just prioritized something out of scope for hours and now they dont need it. They change projects that they arent even involved in. Then after the project is ruined, ask you to clean it up. They have had multiple HR complaints about them from our team and outsiders and nothing has happened. Multiple people have quit after 1 day, 1 week, 3 months.
I know this obvious answer is find a new job or internal position. Can anyone suggest how to navigate this type of work environment and protect my mental health while doing so? I desperately need advice.