Comment by koliber

Comment by koliber 16 hours ago

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Here's a piece of advice that has helped me many times over.

Learn how to manage up.

Another one that goes hand in hand: help your manager help themselves.

In you case, I would pick one of those things from your list of grievances and help them improve. I would pick something that you think your manager would see as helping her potentially get some benefits for herself.

Potentially, this might involve you doing the work for them.

I've done it, and had it done to me. In all cases it worked out decently well.

Sometimes the manager saw what I was doing and let me have freer reign. Everyone won. In some cases I moved into their role when they left it.

Be careful: this might lead to you becoming a manager one day. You said that internal movements are non-existent, but an internal movement caused you to have a new manager. They might be rare, but they apparently do happen.