When I joined my current company, my manager was like that. It was fantastic. I spent all my time doing my job, or trying to improve my job.
Then the bastard got promoted. Now I'm being micromanaged by the new manager, and my initiative is completely dead. Any ideas I come up with are shot down. Anything I start working on is blocked as I'm yanked from one issue to the next. They're not even emergencies.
Well, if you applied to openAI before and were rejected, you should apply again.
It looks like they're going to go on a hiring spree.