dentists everywhere are shaking and screaming

This chart is basically me with my job over the last 15 months. Even when things got bad, I always had hope, though. Hope that things would improve, or that I could leverage my connections elsewhere within the company to get a better job if mine became truly awful, or if that my job sucked in some ways that it would at least afford me the ability to live the life I want: work life balance, time for my hobbies, time to show up for the people in my life.

That hope is gone now. The "new vision" for my job by yet another newly minted braindead VP, and being in yet another new department after the 10th reorg in 5 years alongside the announcement that they're considering layoffs did it, or maybe something just changed I don't know. I woke up and I felt resolved on this front: I need to find something else.

She's pulling the classic VP one two punch of "my bold new initiative is let's revert things to how they were about a year ago" and "I only care about traceability via a KPI that accomplishes nothing and will actually make everyone's job harder and worse, but I'm going to pretend this is the only thing that matters because it's easy to measure and then declare victory when line go up."