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He just said if you can't come up with specifics other than your opinions then there's nothing I can say or do to him. He backed me up and basically said that's his management style, but if he does anything to you worth noting, then yes do call me.

Gotcha. It seems kind of petty but people can be that way. And unexpectedly.

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40? 10 years older than me.

Maybe he's bothered by a younger person being his boss. When I first came into the school system, I worked with a woman who was about 20 years older than me but seemed pretty content in staying in her position and doing just enough work to do so. When myself and others started "passing her up" through jobs that were assigned to us and eventually promotions she really got shitty. She would go to the Principal (and later the Asst. Superintendent with two of the girls) to complain that we were causing a hostile work environment and that our Principal was promoting us out of favoritism. It never went anywhere because she had no basis to her complaints, but it sucked to have to sit down with our boss on the regular to address it.

Before all of that she was one of the handful of people at work that I was fairly close to and I would've never expected it.