<I know this. 'Toughening it out' is coming to peace with this dichotomy (good science/bad mgmnt), which, in my sick and twisted mind, means giving them a piece of it. :)>
You have given them all of it many times over. You complain about the pps and your constant harping might be responsible for a small part of it. If you consider this a compliment,I suspected as much.