I am a department manager and my boss, the department director, is a micromanager and an asshole to boot. I've been on the thin line of insubordination too many times to count. Of all his direct reports, I'm the only one that doesn't blindly follow his demands without questioning...and that makes him mad. I have a military background, so going up the chain and complaining to his boss (the CIO) is a very difficult thing to do. I'm miserable at work. I'm certain, and so is my therapist, that he is one of my top triggers. But I don't see a way out until I retire, quit or die. I'm hoping he either retires or goes somewhere else soon. So yeah...I have plenty of workplace stress...the bad kind. When we go at it, I don't cry...but I shake like a tree and always want to throw something or punch something. It makes me more angry than anything aside from someone messing with my family. My therapist asked me why I am spending so much energy on this when I know very well I will never be able to change his mind or make him even listen. Nobody likes this man and he is usually shot down with every genius idea he has...which makes him angry and then he begins going around process and tries to get his own way.

I am in hell at work...and I see no end in sight.