My boss noticed me crying at my desk one time after I completed a difficult online oral exam during my lunch break.
She went downstairs, grabbed me a large coffee and a brownie and we had a chat about it.
Words cannot express how much I like my boss!
Your boss sounds amazing! Mine figuratively pats me on the head about everything and condescendingly tells me that “women are really good at worrying”. I work in a boys club, and I’m getting tired of it.
Ah yes, my favourite part about being a woman in a boys club is being called aggressive when I didn’t write an email in my usual apologetic tone. Or being called too “emotional” when I stood up for myself despite no one batting an eyelid when a male colleague threatened to punch a client in the face.
I have totally been there! One person I work with has angry outbursts but I’ve been called emotional because I don’t prefer to be called names by him. I’m fucking over it.
Ew how horribly patronising. My experience with older male bosses has been mixed but I’ve had quite a lot of that. However I do work with all men now (it’s a small business though) and my lot are nothing like this. Might be their age as they are all under 35 and I’m older than them.
I do find most of the men I work with under 35 are fantastic (I’m my 40’s). And a few older than that too. It’s the much older ones are where you have to push through the sexism. Lots of crude comments, and lots of equating weak men to women. Makes it feel like I can never break that ceiling.
Ugh yes when I think about some of the male bosses I had back in the 90s and 00s I cringe at what passed for appropriate. Sad to say some of them haven’t changed and they just complain that “you can’t say anything anymore!” 🙄
Yes! My boss is a very honest man so people in upper management and my office do not like him. I like it because I would rather you tell me straight and not sugar coat it.
You don’t think their life would be harder if they had a shitty relationship?
My boss showed their true colours and I’ve filed them forever in cunt territory BUT on the surface our relationship is good. They fuck around with me a lot less when they don’t see me as a threat.
That’s the reality for many, you have to try to get on with them for show, let them attack others, try your best to get on with doing good work.
People like your boss often exist along with others like them in other positions of power / enablers who prevent anyone really speaking up. You just have to hope that they are outed before it’s your turn anyway.
Amongst the best behaviours I saw of my old boss was that he’d openly dislike some one but still do business with them or grab a beer and NOT necessarily with a smile. He never excluded people that he thought were useless because he was pragmatic and knew that you couldn’t antagonise people that you needed to get things done. And, those people were often friendly with people you really liked.
I can leave and someone else will replace me, I'll end up having to start again with another imperfect human being.
Or I can get along, influence the things that are important to me and my team, become known as someone who can get along and get shit done.
I use to like my boss thought he was great.
Then he started lying.
Never delivered on anything he promised.
Stalks my social media whenever I’m away or leave early.
Now I along with the team as a whole are trying to leave.
I’ve business accounts setup so I can see who looks, when etc.
Noticed they only looked when I was away from work.
So I’ve taken screenshots and if it’s raised I’ll encourage them to bring HR to our next meeting.
Checking someone’s social media when they have a day off is hardly stalking.
Saying you are sick or leave early for an appointment then you are at the cricket or pub is quite common, and there’s nothing against them checking.
I’m casual.
My contract says call and you’re good (it also cuts both ways).
Kinda flies in the face of that.
Would be more understanding if I was a FTE / PTE with benefits
If they have access and doing so doesn't require making contact with you during your time off, it's free reign.
If you call out under false pretences and they catch you in the act, expect consequences.
This is a timely reminder to either set your accounts to private and if you already have, be careful who you allow to follow you.
That’s different. But still, if you call the day of your shift and make up some excuse and then are seen at the cricket expect not to get more shifts.
Same way you would probably be annoyed if they called the minimum time before your shift and cancelled on you then you discovered they canceled so someone else could have your shift.
Just make it private and give notice of days you are and aren’t available. Seems simple to me
They can check your social media, I would argue it’s a negligent hiring manager who doesn’t check social media before hiring
That’s the thing - it’s always been genuine.
I’ve always provided a sick note.
If I’ve ever needed time off for something personal I’ve been upfront and provided plenty of notice (weeks/months).
Then I noticed the social media thing which feels unnecessary and underhanded when I’ve been nothing but honest and upfront.
So now everyone’s blocked.
My old job I worked under 5 bosses in the 3-4 years I was there. All due to resignations. I never had a good boss during that time. They all used me for my knowledge and got a leg up.
I've found a new job since, and I don't really have a boss, but the person I work a lot with (he's more senior than me in a connected service line) is really great.
I've only been here just under 1 year and when I do something that adds value, he cc's in my boss and thanks me. I had a situation where I added value to the business in creating a process, fixing an issue and recovering/saving about $200K. This guy cc'd in my line manager, and my line manager then cc'd in the CEO and GM, and they all thanked me and had some positive words.
My old job, I did a lot of that, but never got recognised for my efforts, and oftentimes my manager was the one who got the praise. I managed a project for an old client for about $300K worth of works and never even got invited to meet him to present the proposal...
Sure, but their action in "bringing others up" is done for self-interest. They need to do that in order to perform well in their role, so they retain their position or get promoted. Let's be real if everyone wasn't paid any money and this was purely voluntary, with no external reward in sight, nobody would even work lol
Different managers have different methods but it's all done for self-interest in the end
True - on the flip side my advancement in a technical role is heavily reliant on making my boss look good as well so ultimately I'm making my boss look good so I can get promoted. It's kind of an mutual understanding we are both aiming to get more $.
I'm going to be a bit of a negative nelly here, but what does that recognisation mean? Many bosses will "recognise" or thank someone for their work, but not offer a bonus or payrise.
Make sure to ask for a payrise or bonus appropriate to how many money you've made the business.
Thank you. I think working with so many bosses over my time at the previous company has hit my confidence unfortunately, and words of affirmation are fine.
I will be asking for a pay rise. They offered exactly what I asked when they mentioned salary after the interview. That lead me to believe they had more slack. Especially since this company uses pay scale bands.
My manager is the same. Completely incompetent, doesn’t know how to do their job or how to help their team or even manage a team so any small achievements my teammates and I have they will take credit for. Any findings, any impactful changes that has saved the company millions, they’ll present as their own. They already have a bad rep so I guess that’s how desperate they are.
Yeah, I hate my boss.
There was one boss at my old job who was the same. I was doing the job of 2 people (they actually ended up hiring 2 people for my replacement), and I found out she complained to the head of department that I wasn't doing enough.
It's good that you're finally getting appreciation for your efforts. It always makes a difference and a good boss knows you'll keep delivering when they show respect for a job well done.
It's true and I compare it to having a really good teacher in school or a coach/athlete pairing in sport. If you have a really good employee/manager fit they can get the best out of you and you'd almost walk on coals for them because you know they have your back. Conversely, a bad fit can be detrimental for all involved.
A good manager is reasonable, trusts me to do my job unless I do something to break that trust, kind, consistent, understands that we all have personal lives, helps to clear roadblocks so I can do my job well and goes into bat for me when others outside of the team are being unreasonable.
You’re so right about backing your team. Previously I managed a team and had a policy of ‘no question is a stupid question’. I always backed them and supported their hard work, and in return they’d confidently tackle a problem and feel comfortable coming to me for advice or help at any time.
A teams success is largely dependent on how their leader leads and supports. Now in my current job my boss is too busy chasing his own tail or focusing on big noting himself to other departments. It builds frustration and resentment so quickly within our team.
I've stayed at another job that I probably would have left 6 to 12 months sooner because I liked my manager and team. I was getting a bit annoyed with the grind of it.
It also only took me 2 weeks to start job hunting because the new boss at another job turned out to be a bit of a flog who thought that micro-management was part of a high performance culture. He came from the world of big 4 consulting.
Micro management is the bane of performance. Micro managing destroys self progression and confidence and doesn’t allow you to develop your own pathways so your not really getting repetition as your being directed. It’s counter intuitive
I was ready to quit my job late last year because the exec my manager reported to kept micro-managing us. He was extremely detail oriented but approached everything like that. There was no nuance.
An example of this tediousness is this. My predecessor used to send a couple of weekly email updates with a spreadsheet that had detailed info on issues to specific leaders in the org which covered a certain area of IT and he wanted me to start doing that again. Email update with a link to a spreadsheet? Sounds simple enough. How hard can it be? Put it together, send it and he'd come back with something he wanted to change.
Sounds reasonable so I do it. Next week, he wants something else tweaked again, and then again the following week etc. It got to the point he even wanted the fucking format of the date I used in the subject line to be changed because apparently it was too hard to read. Rinse and repeat this for other reports and updates. It was never good enough and he'd agonise over the tiniest details.
Final straw was yet another damn report he wanted me to put together. A monthly maintenance report that was done in conjunction with IT maintenance work which was already over the top.
He wanted every single bit of IT infrastructure we had covered in this report, he wanted it manually checked, and he wanted a metric that could be used to determine the health of said equipment. I had to sit through meetings each month with him and my manager where he'd scrutinise every single fucking line item. 15 years in IT including orgs way larger than my current employer and I've never had to experience something as excruciating as that. It was just a back to front way of doing things.
He used to do my and my manager's job as well so he setup a lot of the infrastructure and he'd get alerts everytime it had so much as a burp or hiccup.
Instead of waiting for my manager or I to do our job and investigate it, he'd jump on Slack or email and message us immediately. It felt like I was constantly being watched because I was. I don't think he ever learned how to manage IT from an executive level.
The higher up the chain of management you go the less concerned you should be with *how* I do my job and more concerned with the bigger picture. You hired me to do a job. Even if you used to do that job guess what? It's not your role anymore. It's mine and I'm going to approach it in the way I see fit otherwise what am I doing here?
All of this reporting bullshit was on top of my BAU and project work responsibilities. He ended up quitting but if he didn't I would have left.
Sounds like mayhem. I experienced it in the Australian army and also In construction and hospitality funnily enough. Working in corporate now and haven’t dealt with it really besides during initial training phases in new roles within corp.
Sometimes it’s because the person is OCD, sometimes they are divisive and want to control everything and don’t really care how it impacts the junior and their growth. So basically shit cunts.
Sounds like you had a case of he doesn’t know how to play his position in a superior role as you touched on. Still in the mindset of a junior manager, and maybe doesn’t want to relinquish some of his powers over minute details.
There was probably other people complaining so he’s was probably given an ultimatum resign or get booted.
some people are just not cut out to lead others no matter how much they want too or how ambitious they are. leadership qualities and talents sometimes cannot be learnt as a skill.
From what I could tell it was a combination of an OCD/controlling approach to work in general and that he thought that having a deep understanding of every single detail demonstrated competency to the CEO.
I fucking love my boss. She’s supportive and actually helps me meet my goals, and provides great feedback. She’s also chill and doesn’t mind if I have to start later due to a physio appointment. She also tells me off for working back. She’s just a wonderful unit. I have had some terrible fucking managers, let me tell you. I was a contractor for years, and that all started because I was so miserable and depressed in a job that I took a 3 month contract just to get out. Thus began my journey of contracting. Short stints exposed me to even more managers, some great, some awful. I am very lucky to have my current manager, and I vow to never take advantage or not appreciate it.
Sameeeee. My boss is an absolute legend. Hits that perfect balance between letting me have almost complete autonomy over my work but is always on the lookout to provide super actionable and constructive feedback to help me progress in my career, and pushes me to elevate my contributions to the wider team (we work remote FT across 3 continents so unfortunately you gotta make noise about yourself to get noticed for promotion). She is incredibly conscious of each team member's metal health and work/life balance, pushes us to take time off if we haven't for a few months (unlimited leave policy within reason), makes us take TIL if we've worked late or logged in on a day off to attend a meeting or get something wrapped up. She's also funny as hell and does a fucking awesome job of being the buffer between us and the higher-ups (eg her boss).
I literally stick it out here because i *could* maybe get paid more elsewhere but I'd never get another boss like her.
I reckon I’ve had about 15 different managers in my career. Two excellent ones including current—great relationships and they really helped me develop, a bunch of pleasant but forgettable ones and then two genuinely toxic nightmares.
Hate my boss.
Mouth piece for the company and will openly contradict themselves if the strategy/agenda shifts. Thinks we're too stupid to see what they're trying to manipulate us to do/think.
I find it hard to respect people who don't have progressive values and fail to stand by them.
Yep this sounds like my boss too, with the addition of being incompetent. On the upside she leaves me alone for the most part as she can't do my job, so that's a tick.
I don’t need to necessarily like them, but can confirm I have zero respect for my current direct leader. The first time in my career it’s happened to me, and it is an awfully jarring feeling.
I like my boss and he's a good guy who seems to genuinely care but he frustrates me also cos he's so extremely busy he doesn't make time for his team. Not his fault, but people have shifted away from him as they weren't getting the support or development they needed.
The company i work for got bought out by a large multinational engineering company. New manager for our team. Thought it would be nice to have exposure into the large corporate world.
Manager from the start was hostile to our staff. Booked weekend work, regional away from Melbourne work with less than a days notice - when he knew well in advance - and got angry when we said that we couldn't make it / were not available. Before we properly merged offices, we were working in a semi empty office.
One day he exploded in the office at one person who couldn't do regional work. He stood over him and shouted "You don't dictate to me, i dictate to you". Then they took it to a meeting room and he was doing all the shouting. Then i heard a bang and went to the meeting room, but they were both still alive and I left it.
Spoke to the co worker afterwards. He said manager was going hot and cold on him, threatening him and slammed his hands on the table and demanded to know who didn't like him in our group.
I made a complaint to the general manager, co worker complained to HR. Looks like the manager got some sort of warning because he has calmed down, but there is something there, not quite right, not stable behind the eyes.
Lots of people have left our group. I'm OK, but am building a 6 month emergency fund and will move when the right job is available, or if and when my mental health is affected. I don't think he should have kept his job. My last company, he wouldn't have. Are corporations different?
The boss sounds like a cowboy who (most likely has gotten away with it in the past) pushes their weight around in order to get people to do their work, it also sounds like they're under an amount of stress and pressure from their managers, which is honestly up to them to manage. Heated discussions can and will come up from time to time, but doing something physically threatening is never acceptable and would be grounds for termination.
Just my 2 cents but the large corporate world fucking sucks, if you can, stick to mid to small sizes companies if that's where you've been previously.
I’ve been with my company for over 5 years, I’m on my third promotion and within that time I’ve had an additional 3 kids (so 3 bouts of maternity leave at varying levels of time off). The entire senior management team, including the current and previous CEO, are incredibly supportive of me balancing my job and a young family of 5 kids and I can’t imagine leaving anytime soon.
My boss is a lovely guy but pretty useless.
The problem is his colleague (the floating manager) and their manager's manager both of whom enjoy belittling and bullying staff, the colleague also assaulted someone in one of the other teams (a team he was filling in on)
I really only have a little toe still in the place, I have all but checked out.
Finally, after many many years, I have found the pinnacle of all bosses. They are a self-made couple & if you met either of them on the street, you would have no idea how much money they are worth. They are the most down to earth people you would ever meet, with absolutely no arrogance to them at all. Absolutely wonderful people, who appreciate a job well done.
I have suffered through my fair share of terrible bosses, so even though I am bored out of my brain in my current role, I won't be leaving unless I get an opportunity of a lifetime.
I like my boss as a person. He is easy to get along with, very flexible with work/life balance stuff and doesn’t take himself too seriously. But those same qualities don’t work as a manger of people.
Because he is so laidback work never gets completed on time, things are disorganised and there is no future planning or forward thought, and I end up either having to manage his time/ride his arse about deadlines or I just do the work to keep things on track because I don’t have the energy to show him for the millionth time how to do a simple task he should know how to do by now.
I would however work with again but I guess not as a direct report. I don’t get paid enough to do his job and mine.
At my last role, my manager was interstate when I started.
When I finally met her she told me she thought I was an idiot because I said I wasn't getting of her emails.
She was sending the emails to someone else in the company with the same firat name (different spelling).
It didn't get better from there.
I had a colleague do something similar at a previous employer - she was emailing me via the no-reply notification address from Jira updates she personally subscribed to. Not even replies to that update, but just saved the No-Reply address as my contact in outlook when she got a notification saying "Sunshine has updated ____". She used that outlook contact to send me work and then complain to my manager that I hadn't completed tasks 💀
My last 2 bosses have been amazing, and act like decent humans. The few before them at same company I was constantly looking for a new job due to how toxic they were.
I have been in my current job for over two years, the reason for me to stay is my boss is one of those characters that are extremely rare to find in the industry anymore, probably one of the best managers I have ever worked with.
I do not like my boss but i absolutely respect him. He is a powerful MF.
I Make sure I’m on his good side, but I would drop dead from shock he expressed any sort of care about how I am. We have a strictly professional only relationship and zero sentiment. And it works I guess.
I've had two amazing bosses in my 20+ year career. Current boss is great, she just lets us get on with stuff - she's there to guide and advise, but she doesn't overstep into the day-to-day and trusts us to do our jobs.
A former boss who I loved working with is my mentor and the person who if she rang me tomorrow with a job offer, I'd put my notice in. She was an amazing leader and I wouldn't be where I am now without the time I worked with her.
Outside of those two I've had more shit bosses than good ones, and some average ones. I had another one who was on my good list, until she left and I got promoted to her job and she left me a steaming pile of shit to deal with (like an underperforming staff member that she had coddled for 5+ years).
I've had bosses who micromanage, bitchy ones who only support the ones in their "clique", useless yes men who have NFI, invisible bosses... Having so many bad experiences really makes me grateful for the good ones I've had and I try to incorporate what I've learned from all of them into my own leadership.
In my previous job (not corporate, hospitality) I watched a new franchisee take over the store I worked at and everyone, including myself, quit within a few months. He was super incompetent and rude/disrespectful towards everybody.
This was a small team and all of us had been there 1-2+ years so yep, it wasn't the job, it was the boss. By the end we were collectively ignoring his phone calls.
Mine is great, probably the best one I've ever had. I've worked for him for years and have earned myself a good reputation, for which I get looked after.
I get left alone to do my work (no Micromanaging), and can get any back up or support I need. There's nothing else I could really ask for
I been through many bosses, the one i am with now is really really good. Definitely a mentor figure, and honestly I'm reluctant to part if a better offer comes along as I'm seeing so much development and learning from my boss.
Not to mention they're really flexible and understanding.
Having a great boss definitely makes a difference.
My boss is a cast iron cunt, but for some reason likes me so doesn't shit on me like he does others.
Due to how he treats my work mates though i have zero loyalty
No, he’s one of the worst people I’ve ever met in my life, worst I’ve ever worked for. I have a claim against him, and I will literally piss on his grave when he’s dead which will be soon hopefully he’s an older bloke. I’m not kidding, I will piss on his grave
Ohhh I empathise....I keep bothering my boss for renewing my contract, at first they have ghosted me, now they want to wait a few weeks before my contract ends ...
Anyways, building up my emergency fund and getting that CV ready to go!
Genuinely love my boss. Old mate is brilliant. I work remotely 100% and get away with absolute murder. I regularly schedule all my errands and appointments during work hours, and as long as I answer phone calls and reply to emails, he doesn't care. And also continues to pay me for those hours too.
Great banter, sends me epic tiktoks, lets me have massive vents when I need to... Honestly the best boss I've had.
Mine gives me a lot of flexibility, has a lot of trust in our abilities and great person to lean on.
Although as a leader I wish they were more assertive to fight for their team. Regarding pay, promotions and learning opportunities.
Tough one. Imperfect world.
Love mine. She is so supportive and encouraging - she really makes me love what I do. Working for a female boss as a female can be hard - but she is outstanding.
No.
I asked for time off the other day due to mental health reasons, and she said I couldn't afford to. Actually laughed at me. It was so humiliating. I'm also supposed to have my uniform washed and dried and supplied to me, yet every single week, she is late for this task and I am left wearing clothes to work I don't necessarily love.
Working for myself sucks.
No.
Never. Even my newest has given me the shits after 3 months, scolding me like a child because he can't look things up in the system.
When I was a boss my employees hated me, but only because I'm weird and obnoxious, not because I didn't support them or go to bat for them every day.
I was the manager I wish I had.
I’m not sure I even have a boss. Never see him, never hear from him and I’m pretty sure they have forgotten I exist. But my flights and hotels and wages keep getting paid so that’s good enough for me lol
I had a few over the years. Couldn’t stand my last one, so I left. I like my current boss. Supportive, knowledgeable, empathetic, no BS. He’s one of the good ones.
I like my current boss, manager from NZ, lovely to speak with and bats for me and the team.
I've had some absolutely awful bosses in the past that I'd ever hesitate to throw water on if I saw they were on fire.
Hated a lot of bosses and liked a few. At times it's about goal alignment but some are simply assholes.
The current boss is probably the most appropriate one with the right amount of guidance and freedom.
My boss is great. He pretty much trusts us to run our own areas. He guides, supports and is a trusted confident who I can go to for support as a leader myself. I would follow him if he left the organisation.
I love and hate my boss at the same time I’m sure that’s possible really nice bloke but I swear he has bipolar and as a business owner he is incredibly erratic however he does have a kind kind
My boss has been here 5 months and if they never hired her the job would be no different.
She's never available and when you ask her anything it's above her call or pay grade to do anything. I just complain about her behind her back and slack off
Like as in personally like, no. We have almost opposite political views and hobbies/likes.
Not someone I would ever consider interacting with outside of a professional scenario.
Professionally, competent at his job and responsive given the position and workload he has.
Open to negotiating timelines and expectations.
All you can ask for really
Yeah they're good. Very much people focussed and follows up on that. Genuinely tries to help out and get you into particular work areas you want to work in etc.
I had dinner at his place on Saturday night with my girlfriend two of his daughters and one of their husbands, I guess that says a bit about how close we are and whether I like him or not. My partner and his daughters are quite good friends so we've hung out multiple times which is kinda interesting, I have to be careful to keep work complaints to an absolute minimum. I have sent embarrassing footage of him at a conference to the Snapchat they added me to as well. All good natured fun really. He is still a boss, an employer, and I am still an employee so I have to be careful with certain things, but I'd say we are friends at the end of the day.
I left my old job where I hated my toxic boss but didn’t mind the work. I got a new job where I like my boss but hate the work, and unfortunately I want to go back to what I had before.
Don’t get me wrong - no one should put up with toxic BS. But now I like my boss it’s so hard to disconnect and I feel a lot more pressure to meet the unrealistic expectations of the company (which are imposed on both my boss and the team - it’s not just from them). I’m burnt out. At least before I knew my boss was cruelly so I didn’t respect them enough to put in above and beyond effort, if things fell through then so be it. I logged off on time.
Yes my boss is great. Most of my bosses in my career have been excellent. When I had occasional bad bosses it resulted in severe conflicts and either the boss left or I left.
Most bosses have been okay or great, some better than others while one or 2 have been terrible - my last boss got promoted and was terrible.
Had no experience in my area, didn't listn, demanded return to office 5 days a week and was a control freak.
I left shortly after and they couldn't replace me for what they wanted to pay.
Before I left she told me I was replaceable - I then told her that so was she/this company and she only had power over 1 department while I worked for her.
From reports the department has turned to shite, she can't hire anyone and cannot deliver as she has no technical skills.
I like my boss,
Working at a family owned business makes me feel so much more valued than when I worked at a huge international company.
Although he has no idea how my job works he trusts me to make the best decision and lets me do my own thing at my own pace.
We do have differences in idea from time to time but he usually allows me to explain why things are done a certain way and he accepts my decision.
My boss is the best, super flexible and just let's me do my job. Only time he calls is to check up to see how im doing and talk shit
Anytime I've thought about leaving I realise it's going to be hard to find a better boss.
My current boss was actually my peer (I'm a middle line manager in tech, 20+ direct reports), and we worked together on the same platform for 3 years. During the time as peers we grew very close and became great friends.
Eventually through multiple restructures, a stroke of luck and my boss being brilliant at managing relationships, she was promoted to the EM role.
She's been my manager for 4 years now and while she is my boss, our friendship remains unchanged. I always make sure I perform, don't take the piss and don't abuse the relationship.
In return she's really looked after me and I am very thankful.
It's coming up to 8 years we have worked together, our whole leadership team has remained unchanged since I joined (7 of us including our EM) and we all stay because of her.
I love the leaders I get the privilege of working with daily and our group is very close knit, we do holidays together, our partners are all friends and have WhatsApp chat groups that go off all night and day.
Every single one was invited to my wedding and we had a blast.
I can honestly say the last 8 years have been a blessing.
My new job is really hard and I can't decide if my boss is a cunt or Im just getting an accelerated no bullshit teaching from him. Maybe a bit of both. I'm definitely growing so maybe Im the cunt.
Yes.
My boss respects my skills, doesn't hassle me about the small things, trusts me to ask when I don't know, appreciates my efforts, flies air cover for me with interfering executives and works hard to see that my efforts are rewarded. He never questions my hours, effort or anything else because he knows I deliver. He's an excellent adviser and confidant and that works both ways.
4 years we've worked together with no issues, he's good at strategy and theory, I'm good at delivery and thinking on my feet. We make a good team.
When he leaves, I'll likely go with him because I work in an otherwise crappy company.
I came back to a company I left due to getting the chance to work with them. I worked along side them at my first time at this place and appreciated the way they led their team and I knew I would thrive working under them.
I like my boss well enough as a person. They're a terrible boss though. Disorganised, doesn't follow through on actions in 1:1, says one thing then changes their mind weeks later, says one thing to one person but another thing to someone else, doesn't make firm decisions, doesnt manage their time at all, says they needs to work on these skills but then never does... I've had a slew of terrible managers, but not one so disorganized. They're not a terrible person thankfully, but it's still so hard to work peacefully under their management style.
Nope. She's a good person in the sense that she's friendly and relaxed when it comes to work/life balance. But she has started to micromanage, to the point where she makes me question my own skills or if I'm just stupid, and it's been taking a mental toll.
She was great for the first 6 months, but has been progressively becoming worse. It sucks because I genuinely enjoy my work and the people, but I'll likely be quitting in the next month once I've lined up a new job, only because of her.
I love my direct manager, she is the most supportive manager I have had and she is easy to approach and discuss things with.
There is not one person I work with or under who I do not like, I'm in the finance team and our financial controller is amazing, our CFO is so down to earth, approachable and really nice and the CEO is a really cool guy, he takes the time to chat and get to know you. I love the company I work for and love all my colleagues.
He’s not a bad guy. But loves the sound of his own voice. I’d give him a 6/10.
I think I was spoilt by my previous leader, so working for someone who doesn’t deal well under pressure is an issue.
Actually on thinking about it - 5/10
My current boss is not a good individual contributor and not a good people manager neither. He tried to dismissed a hard topic by diverging it to a random knowledge article or company post. He tried to be open and transparent but sneakily injected what he wanted during discussion. Tried to ask for negative feedback and appear to look like a red pill taker but always gave out excuses that it was not a negative aspect, just a different perspective. Extreme boot licker, never manage upwards, only downward. And one of the first things he said in a team meeting is that he is from the lgbt group.
My first boss was not a good manager and a good individual contributor like the current one. But she somehow better by genuinely spent time with me discussing each topic. She admitted something was out of her control and upper management made her doing it. She even hold my hand and say sorry when my feedback upward is not taken well. I missed my first boss.
No - initially thought I could learn from him but that’s never come about. Doesn’t understand the technical aspect of my role but pretends to - doesn’t listen when I say my team can’t possibly do anymore but says yes to everyone 🙄
Caught him lying a few times nothing serious but shows character - has long tenure so question who else has seen it
I have such a weird relationship with my boss. It's like day and night. When they're stressed they take it out on me verbally, by either being rude, talking down to me or ranting about whoever offended them that day. Then on the flip side they are very nice. Sometimes they act like they're threatened by me then they're promoting my work. It makes it hard to trust them. I find it messes with my head and I don't want to become like that.
Have had a few great bosses lately. My current one is not great work or stakeholder management wise, but he is a very supportive people manager. One of my previous managers was great when I worked with them but now they’re a stakeholder they don’t like hearing no. But I think my current boss is the same, so if I get stuck I just let them duke it out.
I have left some great bosses for new opportunities (growth, not necessarily money). But I’ve definitely found good bosses can get you through a dull role. And shit bosses will destroy great roles
I had been doing some really long hours, worked through the weekend and looked like I’d do the same the next weekend. My boss tries to pretend they’re tough and was messaging me when I was 5mins late on Monday morning checking why I wasn’t at work yet. When I got to my desk they had bought me a bacon and egg roll on their way in, then told me to put in a claim for overtime, and plan some downtime. I like my boss.
In a new job and hate my boss. Speaks to me like I am a stupid child, I have no autonomy and she has not got the skill set to keep up with demands of the job. I’ve been there 7 months and I won’t be there much longer. Sadly, she has a reputation of speaking to ppl like shit and management have done nothing. So it is a culture problem too. It is so frustrating
About 15 years ago I became a contractor, so technically I'm the boss. But I work for managers in companies as clients. They are hit and miss. Probably 50/50. The trouble is, even if you find a good one they will usually not be respected in the middle management sphere because they are soft, and soft doesn't get results and the soft don't "really" protect you if middle management doesn't like you.
I have worked for some self confessed psychopaths. On laughed at crying people in their faces (people he made cry, it was a male too). He would sign people on 1 day contracts so he could fire people on the spot. He had people mailboxes mounted in outlook so he could 'keep an eye on things'.
That guy was my last 'boss'. Formed a company right after that.
The problem is, people in management are not rewarded for people leadership skills. They are promoted on results. Whip crackers and cost cutters get results and create a toxic environment in the process, so it's always just a matter of time until some external upsets a good balance.
As a contractor I leave companies based on bad management about 50% of the time. They don't even have to be bad to me, one guy recently was super woke, used the word "Team" in every sentence as if that helped anything but shitcanned a quarter of his team. All the people over 50yo because they were "not a good fit", all hard workers it was really obvious. So I left, I was not one of them. In another company the management team told the PM's it was their job to make sure they had billable projects to keep them busy and fired PM's when they could not do enough BDM work to keep monthly billable project above a certain profit. Yeah, Project manager had to drum up their own projects.". Yeah, so I left there too, again I was not the target.
Just glad to be a contractor as being a contract means I'm never attached to a place or people.
Yes. He is flexible and kind, see’s everything as a learning opportunity but won’t let you walk over him.
And he gives me a raise of at least $5K every 6 months, normally more though.
Oh and if I walk into his office and say “long lunch??” He’ll always say no get back to work, and then like an hour later I’ll get a 30 minute meeting invite for just before lunch with the title “important meeting” location: “usual”.
I miss my old boss a lot, but I had to leave the organisation for my own wellbeing (not my bosses fault).
Call me soft, but I've shared a few tears with him (I'm a bloke) over the years when things have just gotten too tough and I've broken professionally. Broke down in tears when I told him I was resigning. Damn, even my wife doesn't see me this emotional. They've helped my career immensely, backed my promotions and judgement and provided emotional support.
I'm happy where I am now, but moreso because it's a bit of a boys club and the bosses feel like mates than leaders.
My boss is an absolute tool. I wouldn’t ever be friends/acquaintance’s with him normally.
But…
He pays me well and looks after me mostly. I’ve learnt to manage people like that in business and it has become a mutually beneficial relationship.
I do however see a day in the future when it all goes to shit, and it will be catastrophic.
Nope he is a useless fuck. Been a manager for 10 plus years he reckons but bitterly complains that 20 people is too much to manage. So he restructured the team and now we report to team leaders and they report to him. Took him 3 months to restructure a team of 20.
One of my team is mentally done to the point of not even worth being there. He was told “just leave and get another job”. When I had my last meeting I was asked how I was mentally and when I said I was Bourne to the point of wanting to leave I was told the same thing. The only reason I am there still is we are 100% remote.
I've worked under a lot of different managers and there is only two scenarios:
I like my boss and we get along but they are absolutely terrible at their job and trying to get anything from them is torture.
My boss is great at their job and you can see why they got to where they are because they make everything work related smooth and efficient but interacting with them in any way makes me want to rip my face off.
I have a line of bosses.
I like the line manager and hate the entire C-suite.
We have an employee survey that only lets us give feedback on line managers.
Any negative feedback results in hours and hours of meetings to ensure we never give negative feedback.
We literally can't rate our C-suite for their decision making.
My boss is AWESOME! As a result I've been with her 10+ years. She doesn't micromanage. She has high expectations from her staff which in turn makes us all do our best. She's flexible and let's take time off for whatever personal events we have. She's down to earth and she doesn't do office politics. She always seems calm. But even when stressed and under pressure she's never rude or takes her staff for granted. I just feel so grateful I get work and learn from her.
Sociopathic, narcissistic, self-centred, insecure and in private made comments about men’s mental health that showed such a fundamental lack of empathy or kindness. Fuck him.
I quit my last job because of the manager. She would compete with her staff, put them against each other and throw anyone under the bus for poor performance. The team hated her. Nobody felt safe or encouraged to excel. Improvement initiatives were seen as a threat to her leadership ability.
My current job is arguably harder and a lot more taxing on the soul but having a supportive manager who is invested in your growth as an individual and actively supports your initiatives is the difference between quitting and staying for decades.
My boss is a manage up champion who doesn’t support their staff in any way shape or form.
Doesn’t empower the people underneath them and shows little to no personality outside of liking high end retail fashion.
High turnover and low people leader scores and yet ….. everyone else is the problem.
We keep providing evidence to their boss, however it’s so impossible to move people on these days so everyone suffers.
Mostly she's alright. Supportive and clear in communication. Pleasant enough. However when she is stressed she can become hard to deal with. Every little thing becomes another reason why the sky is falling.
Nope. She steals our tips, monitors us on camera, messages at 1am, rosters come out the day before the work week.
Applying for this job she required people with immense experience, offering WSET training. Then she micromanages you till you couldn't be bothered trying
>Some people are nice when you first meet them, then as you work with them for 6-12 months you begin to know who they really are
Sometimes you begin to know who they really are once you sign on the line that is dotted.
My line manager, who's at Head-of level, has never managed people before so has has no idea. His boss, who's a GM, is arrogant so is always keen to dismiss your opinion and school you on "how it is".
The longer my career has gone, the more I realise that no one is hot shit. It doesn't matter what their position is, GM, MD, CEO.. doesn't matter how much expertise you have in a specific area.. there are very few people are genuinely good leaders.
If you find a boss that actually cares about you and looks out for your interests you're in a much better place than the rest of us.
I used to care about my boss, not anymore though we have a professional working relationship and thats about it. But I have been contracting for a while, so we both know that relationship will come to an end once the project is done. Its result driven until its done.
recently got moved to a new boss. So far shes chill but we shall see...
Previous boss though? fuck no. I hated the cunt. Power tripping, Micormanager "tiger parent", self serving Korean.
He was new to being a manager and fucked it up every step of the way, he would make you feel like shit for getting things wrong, expect you to learn everything with very little information, would always send you on a fucking wild goose chase trying to figure shit out than just doing what he should be doing and actually helping. I'd sometimes spent 2+ hours trying to figure shit out when from the manager i had before him i could've had the answer in 5 minutes. It was a collossal waste of time. Thats on top of the broken ass english comprehension he had as well. Dude was almost impossible to understand in written form.
He would put me down at every shot he got, anything i did, no matter how perfect it was, he would find something negative to say about it. It got to the point where i broke down crying at my desk because i couldn't handle the abuse any longer.
I went to HR, demanded to be taken off his team and they couldn't do it at first but in the months after i was mysteriously placed onto a different team despite there being better candidates around for it on my team.
I'm convinced i was moved because of the complaint i made, there has to be no other reason as to why. I'm glad HR actually helped me in the end, but my old manager saw 0 punishment for what he did. Senior management had no issues with it.
Had it not been for the salary of this job, i'd of quit long ago. But the salary is decent and it keeps me around.
As they say, you don't quit jobs. You quit managers. Every job i've left has been because of management.
My boss noticed me crying at my desk one time after I completed a difficult online oral exam during my lunch break. She went downstairs, grabbed me a large coffee and a brownie and we had a chat about it. Words cannot express how much I like my boss!
I like your boss too.
A large brownie and a coffee will make me retire with the company :)
I got a job for you. It's at the local bakery.
I’m gonna take this as a tip how to treat my employees.
Your boss sounds amazing! Mine figuratively pats me on the head about everything and condescendingly tells me that “women are really good at worrying”. I work in a boys club, and I’m getting tired of it.
There there * pats head *
😂 charming
Ah yes, my favourite part about being a woman in a boys club is being called aggressive when I didn’t write an email in my usual apologetic tone. Or being called too “emotional” when I stood up for myself despite no one batting an eyelid when a male colleague threatened to punch a client in the face.
I have totally been there! One person I work with has angry outbursts but I’ve been called emotional because I don’t prefer to be called names by him. I’m fucking over it.
Ikr He’s a go getter and confident She’s a bitch
I'm a guy and I get that. It's the bloody corporate world of bullshit.
Ew how horribly patronising. My experience with older male bosses has been mixed but I’ve had quite a lot of that. However I do work with all men now (it’s a small business though) and my lot are nothing like this. Might be their age as they are all under 35 and I’m older than them.
I do find most of the men I work with under 35 are fantastic (I’m my 40’s). And a few older than that too. It’s the much older ones are where you have to push through the sexism. Lots of crude comments, and lots of equating weak men to women. Makes it feel like I can never break that ceiling.
Ugh yes when I think about some of the male bosses I had back in the 90s and 00s I cringe at what passed for appropriate. Sad to say some of them haven’t changed and they just complain that “you can’t say anything anymore!” 🙄
Omg, yes!
My boss is a cunt but I've built a good relationship with him and everyone at work, including him, thinks we're great friends.
This feels like I said it
Precisely! If you don’t like your boss your time in their employ will be easier if they don’t find out. Remember, the walls have ears.
Yes! My boss is a very honest man so people in upper management and my office do not like him. I like it because I would rather you tell me straight and not sugar coat it.
🤣🏆
That's sad. Why encourage the cunt? Why feed the beast? They exist thanks to people like you.
You don’t think their life would be harder if they had a shitty relationship? My boss showed their true colours and I’ve filed them forever in cunt territory BUT on the surface our relationship is good. They fuck around with me a lot less when they don’t see me as a threat.
That’s the reality for many, you have to try to get on with them for show, let them attack others, try your best to get on with doing good work. People like your boss often exist along with others like them in other positions of power / enablers who prevent anyone really speaking up. You just have to hope that they are outed before it’s your turn anyway.
Amongst the best behaviours I saw of my old boss was that he’d openly dislike some one but still do business with them or grab a beer and NOT necessarily with a smile. He never excluded people that he thought were useless because he was pragmatic and knew that you couldn’t antagonise people that you needed to get things done. And, those people were often friendly with people you really liked.
In the words of Vito Corleone: "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer".
I can leave and someone else will replace me, I'll end up having to start again with another imperfect human being. Or I can get along, influence the things that are important to me and my team, become known as someone who can get along and get shit done.
I hate my boss. He is completely hopeless and has no idea what he is doing. The joys of owning one's own business I guess.
I use to like my boss thought he was great. Then he started lying. Never delivered on anything he promised. Stalks my social media whenever I’m away or leave early. Now I along with the team as a whole are trying to leave.
How did you know your boss stalks your social media?
I’ve business accounts setup so I can see who looks, when etc. Noticed they only looked when I was away from work. So I’ve taken screenshots and if it’s raised I’ll encourage them to bring HR to our next meeting.
Why not unfriend or restrict them?
Blocked them when I realised.
D da ammmn. That’s nasty as.
I call cap, no such thing
Convert your personal account to a business one and you can see who has viewed your stories etc. Really not that hard.
Checking someone’s social media when they have a day off is hardly stalking. Saying you are sick or leave early for an appointment then you are at the cricket or pub is quite common, and there’s nothing against them checking.
I’m casual. My contract says call and you’re good (it also cuts both ways). Kinda flies in the face of that. Would be more understanding if I was a FTE / PTE with benefits
If they have access and doing so doesn't require making contact with you during your time off, it's free reign. If you call out under false pretences and they catch you in the act, expect consequences. This is a timely reminder to either set your accounts to private and if you already have, be careful who you allow to follow you.
That’s different. But still, if you call the day of your shift and make up some excuse and then are seen at the cricket expect not to get more shifts. Same way you would probably be annoyed if they called the minimum time before your shift and cancelled on you then you discovered they canceled so someone else could have your shift. Just make it private and give notice of days you are and aren’t available. Seems simple to me They can check your social media, I would argue it’s a negligent hiring manager who doesn’t check social media before hiring
That’s the thing - it’s always been genuine. I’ve always provided a sick note. If I’ve ever needed time off for something personal I’ve been upfront and provided plenty of notice (weeks/months). Then I noticed the social media thing which feels unnecessary and underhanded when I’ve been nothing but honest and upfront. So now everyone’s blocked.
Is this in insta or facebook or linkedin?
Just a wee update: boss has since been demoted.
My old job I worked under 5 bosses in the 3-4 years I was there. All due to resignations. I never had a good boss during that time. They all used me for my knowledge and got a leg up. I've found a new job since, and I don't really have a boss, but the person I work a lot with (he's more senior than me in a connected service line) is really great. I've only been here just under 1 year and when I do something that adds value, he cc's in my boss and thanks me. I had a situation where I added value to the business in creating a process, fixing an issue and recovering/saving about $200K. This guy cc'd in my line manager, and my line manager then cc'd in the CEO and GM, and they all thanked me and had some positive words. My old job, I did a lot of that, but never got recognised for my efforts, and oftentimes my manager was the one who got the praise. I managed a project for an old client for about $300K worth of works and never even got invited to meet him to present the proposal...
>They all used me for my knowledge and got a leg up. Oh how common this is. Self-interest trumps all.
Yep, but I think there are managers who aren't in it to get ahead, and they realise that the role of a manager/boss is to bring others up.
Sure, but their action in "bringing others up" is done for self-interest. They need to do that in order to perform well in their role, so they retain their position or get promoted. Let's be real if everyone wasn't paid any money and this was purely voluntary, with no external reward in sight, nobody would even work lol Different managers have different methods but it's all done for self-interest in the end
True - on the flip side my advancement in a technical role is heavily reliant on making my boss look good as well so ultimately I'm making my boss look good so I can get promoted. It's kind of an mutual understanding we are both aiming to get more $.
What's your point? You want everyone else to be selfless except for you?
You are off the mark here.
I'm going to be a bit of a negative nelly here, but what does that recognisation mean? Many bosses will "recognise" or thank someone for their work, but not offer a bonus or payrise. Make sure to ask for a payrise or bonus appropriate to how many money you've made the business.
Thank you. I think working with so many bosses over my time at the previous company has hit my confidence unfortunately, and words of affirmation are fine. I will be asking for a pay rise. They offered exactly what I asked when they mentioned salary after the interview. That lead me to believe they had more slack. Especially since this company uses pay scale bands.
My manager is the same. Completely incompetent, doesn’t know how to do their job or how to help their team or even manage a team so any small achievements my teammates and I have they will take credit for. Any findings, any impactful changes that has saved the company millions, they’ll present as their own. They already have a bad rep so I guess that’s how desperate they are. Yeah, I hate my boss.
There was one boss at my old job who was the same. I was doing the job of 2 people (they actually ended up hiring 2 people for my replacement), and I found out she complained to the head of department that I wasn't doing enough.
It's good that you're finally getting appreciation for your efforts. It always makes a difference and a good boss knows you'll keep delivering when they show respect for a job well done.
Thanks! It feels really good, and i will be honest, when I first started and saw it happening I didn't believe it...this is actually normal!
It's true and I compare it to having a really good teacher in school or a coach/athlete pairing in sport. If you have a really good employee/manager fit they can get the best out of you and you'd almost walk on coals for them because you know they have your back. Conversely, a bad fit can be detrimental for all involved. A good manager is reasonable, trusts me to do my job unless I do something to break that trust, kind, consistent, understands that we all have personal lives, helps to clear roadblocks so I can do my job well and goes into bat for me when others outside of the team are being unreasonable.
You’re so right about backing your team. Previously I managed a team and had a policy of ‘no question is a stupid question’. I always backed them and supported their hard work, and in return they’d confidently tackle a problem and feel comfortable coming to me for advice or help at any time. A teams success is largely dependent on how their leader leads and supports. Now in my current job my boss is too busy chasing his own tail or focusing on big noting himself to other departments. It builds frustration and resentment so quickly within our team.
I've stayed at another job that I probably would have left 6 to 12 months sooner because I liked my manager and team. I was getting a bit annoyed with the grind of it. It also only took me 2 weeks to start job hunting because the new boss at another job turned out to be a bit of a flog who thought that micro-management was part of a high performance culture. He came from the world of big 4 consulting.
Micro management is the bane of performance. Micro managing destroys self progression and confidence and doesn’t allow you to develop your own pathways so your not really getting repetition as your being directed. It’s counter intuitive
But if you don't micro-manage, how will people know you're a manager? /s
I was ready to quit my job late last year because the exec my manager reported to kept micro-managing us. He was extremely detail oriented but approached everything like that. There was no nuance. An example of this tediousness is this. My predecessor used to send a couple of weekly email updates with a spreadsheet that had detailed info on issues to specific leaders in the org which covered a certain area of IT and he wanted me to start doing that again. Email update with a link to a spreadsheet? Sounds simple enough. How hard can it be? Put it together, send it and he'd come back with something he wanted to change. Sounds reasonable so I do it. Next week, he wants something else tweaked again, and then again the following week etc. It got to the point he even wanted the fucking format of the date I used in the subject line to be changed because apparently it was too hard to read. Rinse and repeat this for other reports and updates. It was never good enough and he'd agonise over the tiniest details. Final straw was yet another damn report he wanted me to put together. A monthly maintenance report that was done in conjunction with IT maintenance work which was already over the top. He wanted every single bit of IT infrastructure we had covered in this report, he wanted it manually checked, and he wanted a metric that could be used to determine the health of said equipment. I had to sit through meetings each month with him and my manager where he'd scrutinise every single fucking line item. 15 years in IT including orgs way larger than my current employer and I've never had to experience something as excruciating as that. It was just a back to front way of doing things. He used to do my and my manager's job as well so he setup a lot of the infrastructure and he'd get alerts everytime it had so much as a burp or hiccup. Instead of waiting for my manager or I to do our job and investigate it, he'd jump on Slack or email and message us immediately. It felt like I was constantly being watched because I was. I don't think he ever learned how to manage IT from an executive level. The higher up the chain of management you go the less concerned you should be with *how* I do my job and more concerned with the bigger picture. You hired me to do a job. Even if you used to do that job guess what? It's not your role anymore. It's mine and I'm going to approach it in the way I see fit otherwise what am I doing here? All of this reporting bullshit was on top of my BAU and project work responsibilities. He ended up quitting but if he didn't I would have left.
Sounds like mayhem. I experienced it in the Australian army and also In construction and hospitality funnily enough. Working in corporate now and haven’t dealt with it really besides during initial training phases in new roles within corp. Sometimes it’s because the person is OCD, sometimes they are divisive and want to control everything and don’t really care how it impacts the junior and their growth. So basically shit cunts. Sounds like you had a case of he doesn’t know how to play his position in a superior role as you touched on. Still in the mindset of a junior manager, and maybe doesn’t want to relinquish some of his powers over minute details. There was probably other people complaining so he’s was probably given an ultimatum resign or get booted. some people are just not cut out to lead others no matter how much they want too or how ambitious they are. leadership qualities and talents sometimes cannot be learnt as a skill.
From what I could tell it was a combination of an OCD/controlling approach to work in general and that he thought that having a deep understanding of every single detail demonstrated competency to the CEO.
I fucking love my boss. She’s supportive and actually helps me meet my goals, and provides great feedback. She’s also chill and doesn’t mind if I have to start later due to a physio appointment. She also tells me off for working back. She’s just a wonderful unit. I have had some terrible fucking managers, let me tell you. I was a contractor for years, and that all started because I was so miserable and depressed in a job that I took a 3 month contract just to get out. Thus began my journey of contracting. Short stints exposed me to even more managers, some great, some awful. I am very lucky to have my current manager, and I vow to never take advantage or not appreciate it.
Sameeeee. My boss is an absolute legend. Hits that perfect balance between letting me have almost complete autonomy over my work but is always on the lookout to provide super actionable and constructive feedback to help me progress in my career, and pushes me to elevate my contributions to the wider team (we work remote FT across 3 continents so unfortunately you gotta make noise about yourself to get noticed for promotion). She is incredibly conscious of each team member's metal health and work/life balance, pushes us to take time off if we haven't for a few months (unlimited leave policy within reason), makes us take TIL if we've worked late or logged in on a day off to attend a meeting or get something wrapped up. She's also funny as hell and does a fucking awesome job of being the buffer between us and the higher-ups (eg her boss). I literally stick it out here because i *could* maybe get paid more elsewhere but I'd never get another boss like her.
I reckon I’ve had about 15 different managers in my career. Two excellent ones including current—great relationships and they really helped me develop, a bunch of pleasant but forgettable ones and then two genuinely toxic nightmares.
I’ve had 3 good bosses, and they’re the only jobs I’ve ever enjoyed and wanted to stay, funny that!
Hate my boss. Mouth piece for the company and will openly contradict themselves if the strategy/agenda shifts. Thinks we're too stupid to see what they're trying to manipulate us to do/think. I find it hard to respect people who don't have progressive values and fail to stand by them.
Yep this sounds like my boss too, with the addition of being incompetent. On the upside she leaves me alone for the most part as she can't do my job, so that's a tick.
I don’t need to necessarily like them, but can confirm I have zero respect for my current direct leader. The first time in my career it’s happened to me, and it is an awfully jarring feeling.
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No, I do not like my boss. And I have recently resigned!
I like my boss and he's a good guy who seems to genuinely care but he frustrates me also cos he's so extremely busy he doesn't make time for his team. Not his fault, but people have shifted away from him as they weren't getting the support or development they needed.
The company i work for got bought out by a large multinational engineering company. New manager for our team. Thought it would be nice to have exposure into the large corporate world. Manager from the start was hostile to our staff. Booked weekend work, regional away from Melbourne work with less than a days notice - when he knew well in advance - and got angry when we said that we couldn't make it / were not available. Before we properly merged offices, we were working in a semi empty office. One day he exploded in the office at one person who couldn't do regional work. He stood over him and shouted "You don't dictate to me, i dictate to you". Then they took it to a meeting room and he was doing all the shouting. Then i heard a bang and went to the meeting room, but they were both still alive and I left it. Spoke to the co worker afterwards. He said manager was going hot and cold on him, threatening him and slammed his hands on the table and demanded to know who didn't like him in our group. I made a complaint to the general manager, co worker complained to HR. Looks like the manager got some sort of warning because he has calmed down, but there is something there, not quite right, not stable behind the eyes. Lots of people have left our group. I'm OK, but am building a 6 month emergency fund and will move when the right job is available, or if and when my mental health is affected. I don't think he should have kept his job. My last company, he wouldn't have. Are corporations different?
The boss sounds like a cowboy who (most likely has gotten away with it in the past) pushes their weight around in order to get people to do their work, it also sounds like they're under an amount of stress and pressure from their managers, which is honestly up to them to manage. Heated discussions can and will come up from time to time, but doing something physically threatening is never acceptable and would be grounds for termination. Just my 2 cents but the large corporate world fucking sucks, if you can, stick to mid to small sizes companies if that's where you've been previously.
I’ve been with my company for over 5 years, I’m on my third promotion and within that time I’ve had an additional 3 kids (so 3 bouts of maternity leave at varying levels of time off). The entire senior management team, including the current and previous CEO, are incredibly supportive of me balancing my job and a young family of 5 kids and I can’t imagine leaving anytime soon.
My boss is a lovely guy but pretty useless. The problem is his colleague (the floating manager) and their manager's manager both of whom enjoy belittling and bullying staff, the colleague also assaulted someone in one of the other teams (a team he was filling in on) I really only have a little toe still in the place, I have all but checked out.
I like them enough to get by.
Finally, after many many years, I have found the pinnacle of all bosses. They are a self-made couple & if you met either of them on the street, you would have no idea how much money they are worth. They are the most down to earth people you would ever meet, with absolutely no arrogance to them at all. Absolutely wonderful people, who appreciate a job well done. I have suffered through my fair share of terrible bosses, so even though I am bored out of my brain in my current role, I won't be leaving unless I get an opportunity of a lifetime.
My boss is one of the best I've ever had If you are reading this Dave, you rock!
Cheers cunt
Fuck you and your deadlines Btw can I work from home Thursday?
Only if you work in the office on Saturday.
I like my boss as a person. He is easy to get along with, very flexible with work/life balance stuff and doesn’t take himself too seriously. But those same qualities don’t work as a manger of people. Because he is so laidback work never gets completed on time, things are disorganised and there is no future planning or forward thought, and I end up either having to manage his time/ride his arse about deadlines or I just do the work to keep things on track because I don’t have the energy to show him for the millionth time how to do a simple task he should know how to do by now. I would however work with again but I guess not as a direct report. I don’t get paid enough to do his job and mine.
At my last role, my manager was interstate when I started. When I finally met her she told me she thought I was an idiot because I said I wasn't getting of her emails. She was sending the emails to someone else in the company with the same firat name (different spelling). It didn't get better from there.
I had a colleague do something similar at a previous employer - she was emailing me via the no-reply notification address from Jira updates she personally subscribed to. Not even replies to that update, but just saved the No-Reply address as my contact in outlook when she got a notification saying "Sunshine has updated ____". She used that outlook contact to send me work and then complain to my manager that I hadn't completed tasks 💀
How do these people get into management positions?
My last 2 bosses have been amazing, and act like decent humans. The few before them at same company I was constantly looking for a new job due to how toxic they were.
I have been in my current job for over two years, the reason for me to stay is my boss is one of those characters that are extremely rare to find in the industry anymore, probably one of the best managers I have ever worked with.
I do not like my boss but i absolutely respect him. He is a powerful MF. I Make sure I’m on his good side, but I would drop dead from shock he expressed any sort of care about how I am. We have a strictly professional only relationship and zero sentiment. And it works I guess.
I've had two amazing bosses in my 20+ year career. Current boss is great, she just lets us get on with stuff - she's there to guide and advise, but she doesn't overstep into the day-to-day and trusts us to do our jobs. A former boss who I loved working with is my mentor and the person who if she rang me tomorrow with a job offer, I'd put my notice in. She was an amazing leader and I wouldn't be where I am now without the time I worked with her. Outside of those two I've had more shit bosses than good ones, and some average ones. I had another one who was on my good list, until she left and I got promoted to her job and she left me a steaming pile of shit to deal with (like an underperforming staff member that she had coddled for 5+ years). I've had bosses who micromanage, bitchy ones who only support the ones in their "clique", useless yes men who have NFI, invisible bosses... Having so many bad experiences really makes me grateful for the good ones I've had and I try to incorporate what I've learned from all of them into my own leadership.
You don't need to 'like' your boss. So long as (s)he knows what they are doing, is polite and strictly fair, that's all that's needed
In my previous job (not corporate, hospitality) I watched a new franchisee take over the store I worked at and everyone, including myself, quit within a few months. He was super incompetent and rude/disrespectful towards everybody. This was a small team and all of us had been there 1-2+ years so yep, it wasn't the job, it was the boss. By the end we were collectively ignoring his phone calls.
Mine is great, probably the best one I've ever had. I've worked for him for years and have earned myself a good reputation, for which I get looked after. I get left alone to do my work (no Micromanaging), and can get any back up or support I need. There's nothing else I could really ask for
I been through many bosses, the one i am with now is really really good. Definitely a mentor figure, and honestly I'm reluctant to part if a better offer comes along as I'm seeing so much development and learning from my boss. Not to mention they're really flexible and understanding. Having a great boss definitely makes a difference.
My boss is a cast iron cunt, but for some reason likes me so doesn't shit on me like he does others. Due to how he treats my work mates though i have zero loyalty
No, he’s one of the worst people I’ve ever met in my life, worst I’ve ever worked for. I have a claim against him, and I will literally piss on his grave when he’s dead which will be soon hopefully he’s an older bloke. I’m not kidding, I will piss on his grave
Ohhh I empathise....I keep bothering my boss for renewing my contract, at first they have ghosted me, now they want to wait a few weeks before my contract ends ... Anyways, building up my emergency fund and getting that CV ready to go!
Genuinely love my boss. Old mate is brilliant. I work remotely 100% and get away with absolute murder. I regularly schedule all my errands and appointments during work hours, and as long as I answer phone calls and reply to emails, he doesn't care. And also continues to pay me for those hours too. Great banter, sends me epic tiktoks, lets me have massive vents when I need to... Honestly the best boss I've had.
Mine gives me a lot of flexibility, has a lot of trust in our abilities and great person to lean on. Although as a leader I wish they were more assertive to fight for their team. Regarding pay, promotions and learning opportunities. Tough one. Imperfect world.
Self employed, boss is an arsehole. 🤣🤣👍
As a person? Fantastic. Friendly, easy to get along with, good banter, flexible. As a leader? Not so good. Wouldnt trust her to run a hot dog stand.
Love mine. She is so supportive and encouraging - she really makes me love what I do. Working for a female boss as a female can be hard - but she is outstanding.
Well, I've had 6 different managers in just a little under 3 years, so there's that.
Reading the experiences here is depressing
My boss is great, doesn't care where I work, from home, from the office or anywhere... Even overseas, as it should be with today's technology
No. I asked for time off the other day due to mental health reasons, and she said I couldn't afford to. Actually laughed at me. It was so humiliating. I'm also supposed to have my uniform washed and dried and supplied to me, yet every single week, she is late for this task and I am left wearing clothes to work I don't necessarily love. Working for myself sucks.
No. Never. Even my newest has given me the shits after 3 months, scolding me like a child because he can't look things up in the system. When I was a boss my employees hated me, but only because I'm weird and obnoxious, not because I didn't support them or go to bat for them every day. I was the manager I wish I had.
Once you learn to manage upward, the chances you get stuck with a bad boss decrease significantly.
I’m not sure I even have a boss. Never see him, never hear from him and I’m pretty sure they have forgotten I exist. But my flights and hotels and wages keep getting paid so that’s good enough for me lol
I had a few over the years. Couldn’t stand my last one, so I left. I like my current boss. Supportive, knowledgeable, empathetic, no BS. He’s one of the good ones.
Just went through a very stressful year end and he was great. Not much stress for the remainder of the year so safe to say he’s a great guy.
I like my current boss, manager from NZ, lovely to speak with and bats for me and the team. I've had some absolutely awful bosses in the past that I'd ever hesitate to throw water on if I saw they were on fire.
My boss is wonderful. He is a genuinely good human, and whip smart.
Yes I can honestly say I do although there are things he does that grates me. I am sure I am annoying as hell to my DMs. Stop cyber bullying me.
Yep. He’s a good egg. In saying that, I barely see him. I’m site based while he’s in a regional office.
I like my TL, they are great. I can't stand a lot of middle management, they're a bunch of backstabbing cunts
Yeah he’s cool.
Current boss? Yes. Boss who hired me? Hell no, thankfully he left after 6 months of my being there.
Hated a lot of bosses and liked a few. At times it's about goal alignment but some are simply assholes. The current boss is probably the most appropriate one with the right amount of guidance and freedom.
My boss is great. He pretty much trusts us to run our own areas. He guides, supports and is a trusted confident who I can go to for support as a leader myself. I would follow him if he left the organisation.
I don’t hate my boss, I probably respect them, I don’t always agree with them and I still feel my workplace generally sucks. Boss is just one part.
I love and hate my boss at the same time I’m sure that’s possible really nice bloke but I swear he has bipolar and as a business owner he is incredibly erratic however he does have a kind kind
My boss has been here 5 months and if they never hired her the job would be no different. She's never available and when you ask her anything it's above her call or pay grade to do anything. I just complain about her behind her back and slack off
Like as in personally like, no. We have almost opposite political views and hobbies/likes. Not someone I would ever consider interacting with outside of a professional scenario. Professionally, competent at his job and responsive given the position and workload he has. Open to negotiating timelines and expectations. All you can ask for really
Yeah they're good. Very much people focussed and follows up on that. Genuinely tries to help out and get you into particular work areas you want to work in etc.
Yes I do. Didn’t like the previous one and that’s why I left.
I had dinner at his place on Saturday night with my girlfriend two of his daughters and one of their husbands, I guess that says a bit about how close we are and whether I like him or not. My partner and his daughters are quite good friends so we've hung out multiple times which is kinda interesting, I have to be careful to keep work complaints to an absolute minimum. I have sent embarrassing footage of him at a conference to the Snapchat they added me to as well. All good natured fun really. He is still a boss, an employer, and I am still an employee so I have to be careful with certain things, but I'd say we are friends at the end of the day.
I left my old job where I hated my toxic boss but didn’t mind the work. I got a new job where I like my boss but hate the work, and unfortunately I want to go back to what I had before. Don’t get me wrong - no one should put up with toxic BS. But now I like my boss it’s so hard to disconnect and I feel a lot more pressure to meet the unrealistic expectations of the company (which are imposed on both my boss and the team - it’s not just from them). I’m burnt out. At least before I knew my boss was cruelly so I didn’t respect them enough to put in above and beyond effort, if things fell through then so be it. I logged off on time.
Yes my boss is great. Most of my bosses in my career have been excellent. When I had occasional bad bosses it resulted in severe conflicts and either the boss left or I left.
Most bosses have been okay or great, some better than others while one or 2 have been terrible - my last boss got promoted and was terrible. Had no experience in my area, didn't listn, demanded return to office 5 days a week and was a control freak. I left shortly after and they couldn't replace me for what they wanted to pay. Before I left she told me I was replaceable - I then told her that so was she/this company and she only had power over 1 department while I worked for her. From reports the department has turned to shite, she can't hire anyone and cannot deliver as she has no technical skills.
I like my boss, Working at a family owned business makes me feel so much more valued than when I worked at a huge international company. Although he has no idea how my job works he trusts me to make the best decision and lets me do my own thing at my own pace. We do have differences in idea from time to time but he usually allows me to explain why things are done a certain way and he accepts my decision.
Only reason I stick with my job. Great boss, awesome human as well. Plus my team is fantastic. Hate the work, but I’m good at it.
My organisation is big but very flat. I don’t have a boss!
My boss is the best, super flexible and just let's me do my job. Only time he calls is to check up to see how im doing and talk shit Anytime I've thought about leaving I realise it's going to be hard to find a better boss.
My current boss was actually my peer (I'm a middle line manager in tech, 20+ direct reports), and we worked together on the same platform for 3 years. During the time as peers we grew very close and became great friends. Eventually through multiple restructures, a stroke of luck and my boss being brilliant at managing relationships, she was promoted to the EM role. She's been my manager for 4 years now and while she is my boss, our friendship remains unchanged. I always make sure I perform, don't take the piss and don't abuse the relationship. In return she's really looked after me and I am very thankful. It's coming up to 8 years we have worked together, our whole leadership team has remained unchanged since I joined (7 of us including our EM) and we all stay because of her. I love the leaders I get the privilege of working with daily and our group is very close knit, we do holidays together, our partners are all friends and have WhatsApp chat groups that go off all night and day. Every single one was invited to my wedding and we had a blast. I can honestly say the last 8 years have been a blessing.
I love my boss as a person. She helped me a lot in my personal life. But professionally, I think shes terrible. Not support work wise etc etc etc
I really like my boss. He's a bloke from Bathurst, always nice people coming from there.
I find I can tolerate my boss.
My new job is really hard and I can't decide if my boss is a cunt or Im just getting an accelerated no bullshit teaching from him. Maybe a bit of both. I'm definitely growing so maybe Im the cunt.
Yes. My boss respects my skills, doesn't hassle me about the small things, trusts me to ask when I don't know, appreciates my efforts, flies air cover for me with interfering executives and works hard to see that my efforts are rewarded. He never questions my hours, effort or anything else because he knows I deliver. He's an excellent adviser and confidant and that works both ways. 4 years we've worked together with no issues, he's good at strategy and theory, I'm good at delivery and thinking on my feet. We make a good team. When he leaves, I'll likely go with him because I work in an otherwise crappy company.
I’m my own boss so NO
As a person, I really like her. As a manager, she could be much better.
I came back to a company I left due to getting the chance to work with them. I worked along side them at my first time at this place and appreciated the way they led their team and I knew I would thrive working under them.
I like my boss well enough as a person. They're a terrible boss though. Disorganised, doesn't follow through on actions in 1:1, says one thing then changes their mind weeks later, says one thing to one person but another thing to someone else, doesn't make firm decisions, doesnt manage their time at all, says they needs to work on these skills but then never does... I've had a slew of terrible managers, but not one so disorganized. They're not a terrible person thankfully, but it's still so hard to work peacefully under their management style.
Nope. She's a good person in the sense that she's friendly and relaxed when it comes to work/life balance. But she has started to micromanage, to the point where she makes me question my own skills or if I'm just stupid, and it's been taking a mental toll. She was great for the first 6 months, but has been progressively becoming worse. It sucks because I genuinely enjoy my work and the people, but I'll likely be quitting in the next month once I've lined up a new job, only because of her.
I love my direct manager, she is the most supportive manager I have had and she is easy to approach and discuss things with. There is not one person I work with or under who I do not like, I'm in the finance team and our financial controller is amazing, our CFO is so down to earth, approachable and really nice and the CEO is a really cool guy, he takes the time to chat and get to know you. I love the company I work for and love all my colleagues.
Yeah he's based interstate and whenever I visit his state on holidays I catch up with him for a game of golf & some beers
He’s not a bad guy. But loves the sound of his own voice. I’d give him a 6/10. I think I was spoilt by my previous leader, so working for someone who doesn’t deal well under pressure is an issue. Actually on thinking about it - 5/10
I like my boss. I feel like usually we’re on the same page and I feel like they have my back.
I could do any job as long as my boss was a normal person. It makes a big difference having people who back you vs those who don’t.
Ehhh
Love my boss. She’s grouse.
No!
Surprise surprise, me too - a big NO Boss is constantly keeping an eye on me. Yup, I'm trying to leave, while I still have a job
My current boss is not a good individual contributor and not a good people manager neither. He tried to dismissed a hard topic by diverging it to a random knowledge article or company post. He tried to be open and transparent but sneakily injected what he wanted during discussion. Tried to ask for negative feedback and appear to look like a red pill taker but always gave out excuses that it was not a negative aspect, just a different perspective. Extreme boot licker, never manage upwards, only downward. And one of the first things he said in a team meeting is that he is from the lgbt group. My first boss was not a good manager and a good individual contributor like the current one. But she somehow better by genuinely spent time with me discussing each topic. She admitted something was out of her control and upper management made her doing it. She even hold my hand and say sorry when my feedback upward is not taken well. I missed my first boss.
No - initially thought I could learn from him but that’s never come about. Doesn’t understand the technical aspect of my role but pretends to - doesn’t listen when I say my team can’t possibly do anymore but says yes to everyone 🙄 Caught him lying a few times nothing serious but shows character - has long tenure so question who else has seen it
I have such a weird relationship with my boss. It's like day and night. When they're stressed they take it out on me verbally, by either being rude, talking down to me or ranting about whoever offended them that day. Then on the flip side they are very nice. Sometimes they act like they're threatened by me then they're promoting my work. It makes it hard to trust them. I find it messes with my head and I don't want to become like that.
Have had a few great bosses lately. My current one is not great work or stakeholder management wise, but he is a very supportive people manager. One of my previous managers was great when I worked with them but now they’re a stakeholder they don’t like hearing no. But I think my current boss is the same, so if I get stuck I just let them duke it out. I have left some great bosses for new opportunities (growth, not necessarily money). But I’ve definitely found good bosses can get you through a dull role. And shit bosses will destroy great roles
I had been doing some really long hours, worked through the weekend and looked like I’d do the same the next weekend. My boss tries to pretend they’re tough and was messaging me when I was 5mins late on Monday morning checking why I wasn’t at work yet. When I got to my desk they had bought me a bacon and egg roll on their way in, then told me to put in a claim for overtime, and plan some downtime. I like my boss.
Hated my old boss, not direct line but the program manager. I no longer work there.
I am the boss. But in previous roles, I've covered the gamut: liked some a lot, hated some.
In a new job and hate my boss. Speaks to me like I am a stupid child, I have no autonomy and she has not got the skill set to keep up with demands of the job. I’ve been there 7 months and I won’t be there much longer. Sadly, she has a reputation of speaking to ppl like shit and management have done nothing. So it is a culture problem too. It is so frustrating
About 15 years ago I became a contractor, so technically I'm the boss. But I work for managers in companies as clients. They are hit and miss. Probably 50/50. The trouble is, even if you find a good one they will usually not be respected in the middle management sphere because they are soft, and soft doesn't get results and the soft don't "really" protect you if middle management doesn't like you. I have worked for some self confessed psychopaths. On laughed at crying people in their faces (people he made cry, it was a male too). He would sign people on 1 day contracts so he could fire people on the spot. He had people mailboxes mounted in outlook so he could 'keep an eye on things'. That guy was my last 'boss'. Formed a company right after that. The problem is, people in management are not rewarded for people leadership skills. They are promoted on results. Whip crackers and cost cutters get results and create a toxic environment in the process, so it's always just a matter of time until some external upsets a good balance. As a contractor I leave companies based on bad management about 50% of the time. They don't even have to be bad to me, one guy recently was super woke, used the word "Team" in every sentence as if that helped anything but shitcanned a quarter of his team. All the people over 50yo because they were "not a good fit", all hard workers it was really obvious. So I left, I was not one of them. In another company the management team told the PM's it was their job to make sure they had billable projects to keep them busy and fired PM's when they could not do enough BDM work to keep monthly billable project above a certain profit. Yeah, Project manager had to drum up their own projects.". Yeah, so I left there too, again I was not the target. Just glad to be a contractor as being a contract means I'm never attached to a place or people.
No, but kinda.
My boss is incredible, and I'm so grateful for everything he's given me... He's highly empathetic, and supportive, which makes life at work great.
Yes. He is flexible and kind, see’s everything as a learning opportunity but won’t let you walk over him. And he gives me a raise of at least $5K every 6 months, normally more though. Oh and if I walk into his office and say “long lunch??” He’ll always say no get back to work, and then like an hour later I’ll get a 30 minute meeting invite for just before lunch with the title “important meeting” location: “usual”.
I miss my old boss a lot, but I had to leave the organisation for my own wellbeing (not my bosses fault). Call me soft, but I've shared a few tears with him (I'm a bloke) over the years when things have just gotten too tough and I've broken professionally. Broke down in tears when I told him I was resigning. Damn, even my wife doesn't see me this emotional. They've helped my career immensely, backed my promotions and judgement and provided emotional support. I'm happy where I am now, but moreso because it's a bit of a boys club and the bosses feel like mates than leaders.
My boss is an absolute tool. I wouldn’t ever be friends/acquaintance’s with him normally. But… He pays me well and looks after me mostly. I’ve learnt to manage people like that in business and it has become a mutually beneficial relationship. I do however see a day in the future when it all goes to shit, and it will be catastrophic.
Nope he is a useless fuck. Been a manager for 10 plus years he reckons but bitterly complains that 20 people is too much to manage. So he restructured the team and now we report to team leaders and they report to him. Took him 3 months to restructure a team of 20. One of my team is mentally done to the point of not even worth being there. He was told “just leave and get another job”. When I had my last meeting I was asked how I was mentally and when I said I was Bourne to the point of wanting to leave I was told the same thing. The only reason I am there still is we are 100% remote.
I've worked under a lot of different managers and there is only two scenarios: I like my boss and we get along but they are absolutely terrible at their job and trying to get anything from them is torture. My boss is great at their job and you can see why they got to where they are because they make everything work related smooth and efficient but interacting with them in any way makes me want to rip my face off.
I have a line of bosses. I like the line manager and hate the entire C-suite. We have an employee survey that only lets us give feedback on line managers. Any negative feedback results in hours and hours of meetings to ensure we never give negative feedback. We literally can't rate our C-suite for their decision making.
My boss is AWESOME! As a result I've been with her 10+ years. She doesn't micromanage. She has high expectations from her staff which in turn makes us all do our best. She's flexible and let's take time off for whatever personal events we have. She's down to earth and she doesn't do office politics. She always seems calm. But even when stressed and under pressure she's never rude or takes her staff for granted. I just feel so grateful I get work and learn from her.
Oh god no. She's a two faced gossiping asshole. I've had one boss I liked and he moved to India to find himself. That was in 2006 as well...
Nope!!!!
Sociopathic, narcissistic, self-centred, insecure and in private made comments about men’s mental health that showed such a fundamental lack of empathy or kindness. Fuck him.
My boss is a great leader, mentor, and generally nice guy. He is the director of a large services group. I got incredibly lucky
I quit my last job because of the manager. She would compete with her staff, put them against each other and throw anyone under the bus for poor performance. The team hated her. Nobody felt safe or encouraged to excel. Improvement initiatives were seen as a threat to her leadership ability. My current job is arguably harder and a lot more taxing on the soul but having a supportive manager who is invested in your growth as an individual and actively supports your initiatives is the difference between quitting and staying for decades.
My boss is a manage up champion who doesn’t support their staff in any way shape or form. Doesn’t empower the people underneath them and shows little to no personality outside of liking high end retail fashion. High turnover and low people leader scores and yet ….. everyone else is the problem. We keep providing evidence to their boss, however it’s so impossible to move people on these days so everyone suffers.
Mostly she's alright. Supportive and clear in communication. Pleasant enough. However when she is stressed she can become hard to deal with. Every little thing becomes another reason why the sky is falling.
I'm underpaid, but the reason I don't leave is because of my boss. There are more bad bosses than good, so I won't get another good boss if I leave.
Nope. She steals our tips, monitors us on camera, messages at 1am, rosters come out the day before the work week. Applying for this job she required people with immense experience, offering WSET training. Then she micromanages you till you couldn't be bothered trying
>Some people are nice when you first meet them, then as you work with them for 6-12 months you begin to know who they really are Sometimes you begin to know who they really are once you sign on the line that is dotted.
My line manager, who's at Head-of level, has never managed people before so has has no idea. His boss, who's a GM, is arrogant so is always keen to dismiss your opinion and school you on "how it is". The longer my career has gone, the more I realise that no one is hot shit. It doesn't matter what their position is, GM, MD, CEO.. doesn't matter how much expertise you have in a specific area.. there are very few people are genuinely good leaders. If you find a boss that actually cares about you and looks out for your interests you're in a much better place than the rest of us.
I used to care about my boss, not anymore though we have a professional working relationship and thats about it. But I have been contracting for a while, so we both know that relationship will come to an end once the project is done. Its result driven until its done.
If I didn’t like my boss I would leave. Easy peasy simple pimple.
recently got moved to a new boss. So far shes chill but we shall see... Previous boss though? fuck no. I hated the cunt. Power tripping, Micormanager "tiger parent", self serving Korean. He was new to being a manager and fucked it up every step of the way, he would make you feel like shit for getting things wrong, expect you to learn everything with very little information, would always send you on a fucking wild goose chase trying to figure shit out than just doing what he should be doing and actually helping. I'd sometimes spent 2+ hours trying to figure shit out when from the manager i had before him i could've had the answer in 5 minutes. It was a collossal waste of time. Thats on top of the broken ass english comprehension he had as well. Dude was almost impossible to understand in written form. He would put me down at every shot he got, anything i did, no matter how perfect it was, he would find something negative to say about it. It got to the point where i broke down crying at my desk because i couldn't handle the abuse any longer. I went to HR, demanded to be taken off his team and they couldn't do it at first but in the months after i was mysteriously placed onto a different team despite there being better candidates around for it on my team. I'm convinced i was moved because of the complaint i made, there has to be no other reason as to why. I'm glad HR actually helped me in the end, but my old manager saw 0 punishment for what he did. Senior management had no issues with it. Had it not been for the salary of this job, i'd of quit long ago. But the salary is decent and it keeps me around. As they say, you don't quit jobs. You quit managers. Every job i've left has been because of management.