The Ultimate Bad Boss
On October 16th, you might get a little respect from your employees since it's National Boss Day unless you're a bad boss. Owning a business with all your life savings vested in your company doesn't give one the right to be a jerk. Happy employees will make your firm more productive and profitable. Just make sure you never make the bad boss list.
Michael Scott, The Office: Steve Carell plays a regional manager who makes sales management blunders such as revealing employee personal information and creating prank productivity killers.
Wilhelmina Slater, Ugly Betty: The fictional character from the hit show is one mean, fashion-diva boss who installs spy cameras in the office.
Montgomery Burns, The Simpsons: Mr. Burns is the evil, manipulative boss who makes work miserable for poor Homer Simpson and all nuclear plant employees who dread his office ceiling-mounted suction tube.
Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada: Meryl Streep portrays a ruthless boss who can't even remember the name of her personal assistant and effectively destroys employee motivation.
Dr. Evil, Austin Powers: Controlling the world is the only objective of Dr. Evil (Mike Myers) who will do anything to torment a staffer who fails his assignment.
Who do you think is the ultimate bad boss?
Comments
It’s a toss-up between the boss I had 20 years ago who waited at the front door every morning with his watch in hand (to check out who might be 10 seconds late; but who never stayed at the end of day to see who stayed late to finish up); and the boss I had 10 years ago who asked to me do his research, write his reports, and manage head office requests AND do my own job. The reality is that unfortunately there are a number of really bad bosses out there; and bad employees.
I prefer to work in a different environment: I respect the people I work with, and I expect respect back! Everyone deserves at least that.
Bad bosses can make your life miserable. I too had a history of bad bosses before I got smart and decided to go into business for myself. The best decision I have ever made was when I decided to be my own boss and stay home to make money.