I posted a few weeks ago about my toxic job. As background, I loved my job until last Fall. I thought I was going to stay there for years. I had a great relationship with my manager, had a great relationship with my team, and felt content in the day-to-day. Well, I was "promoted" last September. I use air quotes because it was only a $1,500 raise, but double the workload was added to my plate. I didn't want this promotion, but couldn't I turn it down without losing my job. It was a "company restructuring effort."

During this promotion, I was transferred to a different team under a different manager. Needless to say, I hate my new manager. She is never available when urgent support is needed, constantly pawns off her work on us, and is incredibly rude/caddy. Yesterday, I was in a 1 on 1 meeting with our director and our director mentioned that she feels "cut off" from the lower management team, because there is "radio silence" from us. I laughed, because me and my fellow managers have shared tons of process deficiencies and issues with our manager over the past few weeks, all of which we know she is not escalating. I politely and professionally told our director that information is being shared with our direct manager, but clearly the direct manager isn't escalating it upward to our director (I believe out of fear of having some of her work redistributed back to her) which is why she has been experiencing "radio silence" from us. She seemed irritated and said she was meeting with our manager today and wanted to address it. 

This morning, our direct manager sends an email, asking for feedback on barriers impacting the issues I brought up yesterday, prior to her meeting today. I spent 45 minutes spelling out all of the issues, including numbers and data, and making sure it was professional but firm. I got a text from a colleague who was in the office today, who said my direct manager and the director spent 3 hours, on what should have been a process improvement meeting, laughing and gossiping, getting absolutely nothing done. I am so irritated that I put myself out there to my director, risking myself with my caddy manager, to express the issues, only for the director to not take it seriously and my manager to continue to get away with doing nothing. I also got my 3rd job application rejection letter this week. All I want is to get out of this crap company.