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"You can change your circumstances at the job, but that doesn't make the senior-managements behavior any less toxic?"

Too true, I was in the situation awhile ago of being checked-out at a bad job. I realized that I needed to turn around, despite really positive feedback from the management about improving performance, it did nothing to improve the management's ineptness. Most of my proposals of even basic industry practices like using Git to manage our code base, and switch to using a CSS framework were met with smiles but resisted.

The company inevitably self-imploded, largely due some egregiously bad management decisions. I was laid off, but at least I had gotten used to a workflow that made my skills more marketable...



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