So I've been at my new job for just under a month, and as far as the job itself, its pretty easy with decent pay. The main problem being is that my boss is kind of a guargantuan, egotistical, a**hole...

Now, maybe this is just me, but the best bosses/supervisors are the ones who teach you how to do something but 1. Don't expect you to get it right away 2. Let you use whatever methods YOU see fit, as long as it isn't breaking rules and gets the job done...

As far as my new boss goes, he literally will "teach" me how to do something, then a day later I'll do the exact same thing but then he'll say thats wrong. If that isn't bad enough, he nitpicks EVERYTHING, to the point that somedays I find myself at the end of my rope (A big part of my job is driving a 16 footer, he is one of the WORST backseat drivers I have ever dealt with to the point that sometimes I'm tempted to pull over and tell him to either shut the F*ck up or that if he doesn't like my driving then he can drive... But of course, like any egotistical person, anytime I calmly bring up some of my complaints with him, he always says things like "But I do do that" or "Yeah, I already do that."

Even when he's being friendly/tolerable, I can't even have a decent, non-work conversation with him because he thinks he's right about everything, and instead of politely disagreeing he uses that condescending "No/Nope" that I'm guessing almost everyone here has heard at some point (Yes, he uses that tone when we're working too).

All of this has gotten to the point that when I'm working with him, I just don't really try that hard because I know he's gonna get on my @$$ for some dumb little thing no normal person would care about... And I struggle to feel motivated when I'm gonna do something "wrong" at some point regardless of what I do...

Now, I'm sure there are a lot of people here who have had to deal with pricks like this, but the thing is... The last job (an unpaid internship I needed to complete in order to graduate college) was very similar to this, except add the fact that she had no empathy on to everything I've already said about my current boss. And it ended with me calling her an a**hole and me getting fired (I regret nothing). My point being, I used to have really low self-esteem and believe that I just needed to put up with that kind of treatment, I don't want to sound egotistical myself, but I have a really hard time just taking this kind of treatment without it eventually leading to me (rightfully) blowing up at said person.