[djmcmath]

I have one of those situations right now. I've been assigned to a team with a very junior lead. He's actually an interface programmer, not really a "lead" at all, but he's the only government individual on the team, so he's the "lead" by default. Unfortunately, he's not only a bad manager, he's not even a good programmer. When the developers come to him and say things like "We have a memory leak," or "We have found a configuration management problem," it takes the team longer to explain to him then it would to just fix it. Aargh.

My reality is that I've never had a job where I didn't have some personality conflict. Either my boss was a complete idiot, or one (or more) of my immediate subordinates was lazy beyond comparison, or ... part of me wants to go somewhere else -- take Island's advice, pronto -- and part of me says "Why would any other job realistically be any different?"

So stick it out, train him in the ways of leadership, and let us know how it goes. I'm discovering wells of patience I didn't know existed.

Dan