I suspect the truth is tho that the only really good solution is to find a different place to work.

Glad you wrote different, and not better or the like. To quote one of my favourite german authors (Morgenstern? Hesse? the former, I guess) -

Es gibt keinen Ausweg außer zum noch Schwierigeren.

There is no escape except towards the more difficult.

;-)

--shmem

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