I am one of 6 IT Support people in our dept and our Manager is one of the most inept people I have ever met/worked with. He is a typical “YES” man to anyone above his position, but to anyone equal or what he deems “beneath” him, every request is an automatic and emphatic “NO”. Every annual budget that he submitted for our dept. was so thin that our OT budget for past years was blown in January. We are barely keeping our heads above water with the equipment that we use. When we request equipment upgrades he says that he can do his job fine with what he has. His managing style is to leave whenever a situation arises, then when it is solved, he takes the credit for it. Talking to him about this was akin to beating our heads against a brick wall that has been reinforced with another brick wall. We have brought up these problems with his boss, as well as HR. BUT he has pulled the wool so far over their eyes that our group has been labeled a “problem group” and that anything we say is not to be believed.
Help!!! Any ideas out there as to what we can do?