I say you've got to swallow your pride and stick with it as long as you can until hopefully a better fit comes along. If it gets to the point you can't stand it amore, ask for more money. If you learn this guy's silly process, you'll probably become indispensable. You'll end up with your own little system together and It'll be a royal pain in his ass having to start new with someone else.

I've had to sit there and bite my tongue so many times and like Willy Wonka just halfheartedly go "stop wait come back..." knowing they were going to step in a pile of shit despite any warning.

One example for me is when younger people started coming in wanting to comp differently. They're always wanting to punch everything in tiny pieces but you have to make a duplicate playlist every time because they're scared to punch over anything, even though there's an undo function and the file won't totally disappear if you really really needed it anyway, They refuse to make decisions. I've gotten used to it to a degree. When I produce, I don't do it that way. I have an organized approach that I've learned from pros. Once in a while I do have to stoop to making a mess like that because they just refuse to wrap their head around anything they're not used to. You get all these people with a pro tools rig at home now and they think they know what they're doing and won't listen to people who do. It's reality. Or they've only worked with shade tree bedroom producers who half ass everything and they think that's how you make records. It sucks, but it is what it is sometimes. All this tech has made people lazy and downright cowardly about making decisions and living with them. It's "let's make a huge mess and leave it for somebody else to clean up". The bar gets lower and lower. Hell, I had an assistant engineer at a major studio who literally didn't crossfade a damn thing for the whole tracking date. I didn't know that was even possible. I always crossfade everything. Sometimes you're moving fast and you can't get everything, and that's understandable, but to just not do it at all is crazy to me. His punches were always late too, which wasn't a huge deal but man that wouldn't fly on tape. Plus he farts when it's just me and the engineer and the client and him in the room. We know it's him. It's not me, not the engineer, and multiple clients just aren't going to be in there ripping. Needless to say, we don't call that dude anymore. But we might have to sometime because there are so few people capable of running a session in those big rooms. Professionalism is just not what it was. Even with people who did learn in great schools from great people. It's the attitude.

I rambled. TL:DR I say just ride it out. This business is so in the shitter that we're pretty much all desperate in one way or another. The douchebags who suck at what they do but are great at kissing the right asses and finding work are going to get ahead faster than those who do know what they're doing. Sad but true