Comment by lubujackson

Assuming you don't do the obvious thing and flee, here's how to best handle it - disassociate your internal value from your manager's opinion. Disassociate your value from the value of your work. Eventually, you should find something better but the best you can do in the meantime is be respectful and do the work you are assigned without sticking ypur neck out.

What tends to happen normally is you either work twice as hard to do the job as you want to do it AND meet your manager's random demands, or you feel like shit for not meeting your manager's demands, or you eat shit because of how they are feeling that day or whatever other nonsense a bad manager may dump on you.

As Eleanor Roosevelt famously said: "No one can make you feel bad without your permission." So the first step is to put on some thick skin.

And I am talking about a bad manager kind of like how people talk about handling a bully. Because, without much context, I know that they have power over you and that you fundamentally disagree with then. So don't try to change them and don't change yourself.

This is the only sane way to move forward without burning out quickly or feeling like shit all the time. Best of luck.