Its just a joke

After 7 months of demanding another member of staff, I finally accepted I was just being strung along and it was all smoke and mirrors. Last year the response was "We just need to figure where they fit into the team" This year it was "We are looking into it" followed by "We realise another member of staff is needed" followed by "The stats don't support it". All patching is falling on me as well as DR's, whilst getting complained at as an infrastructure engineer that the 1st line queue is a mess. I try to escalate stuff to my manager and get complained at that he is too busy. Team meetings are held after work finishes (well the couple we have had this year are). So after a two week holiday, I just decided enough was enough. Fired out my CV and it took me 2 weeks to find a job. So anyway, our first line guy is now getting the blame because he isn't doing infrastructure work, ie DR's (you know that typical first line task). I am proud of him, as he is causing a ruckus saying if he is expected to help out with patching, DR's etc, then he needs a payrise and a job title change to Junior Infratstructure. My manager is complaining because "We were strapped for staff as it was and you leaving means we are more strapped for staff". Yet apparently we didn't need another member of staff, which is it? The dev team are pissed because my manager has made it clear he dislikes them and I am the only one who assists with Azure (Dev team are deploying straight to Azure not to the legacy system). My manager hates cloud, so the Dev team are probably screwed, but at this point, more important people will probably be involved. People are going straight to the company president, for laptop requests. According to my manager, working with a cracked screen is fine and also "it saves cost". Anyway, I am glad I am leaving this circus. To top it off, my manager was saying how he rewrote the job spec to reflect the out of hours work (potentially patch every switch and firewall, patch 30 servers, do a week on call telling people to press refresh on chrome at 3am in the morning and do a DR, plus any project work) and that how the new position will blur the lines between infra and 1st line. Anyway, I saw it, yeah all that has happened is the word "IT Director" has been replaced with "IT Manager". The final date for applications is still 2 years ago. Sorry for vent but to sum it up, I found my MSP days less soul destroying.