@BloodGain Thanks for assuming that my management style has lead to miserable developers. This is not actually the first time I have joined an environment where the inmates were running the jail, in that instance I increased transparency leading to teams getting work done much more efficiently with higher morale since there was less overtime from being better organised.

@bobo2000 I didn't say you did so directly. I said management had caused the problem, and that you, having been there only a few weeks, are still viewed as part of that force. I did make the assumption that from your attitude (i.e. it's always the developers' fault) that when this group leaves and you hire a new one, you won't make it any better for them, either.

@bobo2000 It's funny that you chose the metaphor "inmates running the jail", because that's exactly what it feels like your attitude toward your developers is. We've tried to help, but you just keep deflecting responsibility. You just want to hear that you're doing everything right, and the developers/lead/everyone else is wrong. Everyone else has stopped responding. Maybe I should follow their lead.