working for a control freak

I sent my boss an email this morning telling her that I was offended by her following up on an issue.

My boss is on her maternity leave. She had the baby about a week ago. Before she left she typed up a five page list of "things to do" and three days after having her baby she asked me to follow up on something. I said that I would. Knowing that I wasn't going to be in the office yesterday, it was scheduled for first thing today. However, she went an did the follow-up from home yesterday (and as expected, the results aren't going to happen for two weeks anyway!).

This has been a continuing problem for me, and will likely mean that I won't stay here once she returns from her maternity leave (if she ever really leaves).

My boss admits that she's a control frek, but it will result in the demise of this operation. Rather than managing what people are doing and seeing to it that they are doing their jobs, she insists on doing it all herself. This usually results in things getting done late, or poorly, and then she can complain about her lack of help, but when anyone else in the office with the appropriate skills offers to do something, she doesn't let go of any project.

The artisitic director/director of dance for our facility has completely understood my frustration. Despite having a Masters in Dance and having danced professionaly with a major dance institute (and my boss has a BA in PR from a small, local school), our artisitc director has admitted that she feels she is nothing more than a proof-reader for the managing director. She is not allowed to create any kind of dance schedule or curriculum on her own.

The Stix here is looking for work, and after talking with the wife, may even go back to trying to write full time. There are a few, unexplored options in the area that I intend to look into, but I just don't enjoy sitting and doing nothing for eight hours, or having what little authority I am granted, undermined.