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I mentioned my problems, with my manager, to very senior coworkers and they strongly recommended that I quit. As a result of their advice, I mentally quit my job. My old job was to make successful products for customers. My new job is to overcome the limitations of my manager.

I've tried very obvious things. I have worked out a path to be successful despite the efforts of my manager to prevent it. I included my skip level manager in the conversation. I very carefully review my manager's actions and tell them constructively in our 1on1 when they are managing badly. I spend a lot of time reviewing my progress to make sure my path is the best. I built relationships with other coworkers without my manager involvement so they can support my efforts when performance reviews are due.

If I kept the notion that was doing my old job I would be unhappy; changing my point of view has helped a lot.



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