Happy weekend one and all. Hope everyone is fully disengaged and having fun.

This may be a little long and ranty. Work is beyond awful.

I've spent the last 6 months trying to make my new director happy. Which is impossible but I tried for 60/80 hours a week.

More fool me. We had a regular catch up scheduled on Friday. He started by given another 5 projects to work on. I presented a completed project to reorganise the structure of the entire £2bn division which he says and I quote "was excellent". OK so far same shit different day.

Then he says that he's decided to bring in someone else to run my team because he needs a director for the role and hopes I understand. His two options for me are to basically take a more junior role or leave. But he didn't come out and say that my job was redundant. Oh no! If he had I'd have a better chance of suing for constructive dismissal. He said that he'd like to have a smooth 6 month transition to the new person. By what I'm sure is a coincidence (NOT) my notice period is 6 months.

Oh and he used the same stupid line they gave me when he started. "This is because we want you to have a better work life balance" Yup, having no income will be great for my life.

And then came out with this old chesnut - "This is really hard for me" Boo hoo, Am I supposed to feel sorry for you? Really? It reminded me of the classic break up line - "Its not you, its me"

This is the same moron who just gave me a great rating in my annual appraisal.

He asked what I thought. I stood up picked up my papers and said "This is exactly what I predicted would happen. You've basically used me while you went through the recruitment process." He denied this but at my level most people are on 3/6 months notice so he's lying. I then said I needed the weekend to think about things.

But seriously, who starts a fucking meeting to tell someone that they don't really have a job anymore by giving them new projects. Is it just me or is this slightly insane?

What will happen is that the new director will start and be given an unlimited budget to resource the team. (I've been working on a shoe string) He'll (because it will be a man) will recruit an army of minions and the board will be slapping themselves on the back for what a great decison they've made. But they couldn't just give me that resources to do my job to the best of my ability...