Comment by kshacker

Been there, done that. And sorry for the long anecdote.

This was not a new job, but I got re-orged. There were a bunch of personnel changes and my manager's manager was also new in the role, but he was an old hand in the product we were building. The grand-manager controlled everything, and my manager did not have much say (at least in the beginning). 100% of our interaction was our 1:1s where he will either defer to his manager, or say "you are senior enough to manage this decision". Zero decision making.

Then one fine day he blew up at me saying "I did not do any work". He "watched my emails and slack conversations and did not get a feeling I was working". Long story here which I will omit. When we finished the meeting, which was in a conference room, I did not exit the conference room until I had reached out to a couple of teams who were hiring. I left shortly thereafter.