10 Signs That Your Boss Sucks
On this site we usually focus on specific jobs. But recently I have been thinking that any job could be crappy if your boss sucks. I saw a great post on BNET about this very topic and I thought that I would share it.
Stanley Bing (writing for BNET) give his top ten list of signs that your boss sucks.
- The knot you get in your gut whenever you have to deal with him. You never know which person is going to show up — the nice, benevolent manager or the insane, angry hophead.
- The feeling you get when you have to get dressed every morning. You know, the sensation that life wasn’t meant to be like this, that nobody knows what the day ahead will hold — and not in a good way, either. (This is so right, ugh, been there).
- He’s either absent — or omnipresent. On days when he is supposed to be there, leading the way, guiding his people with a firm and gentle hand, he is nowhere to be found. Yet on days when everybody is executing the plan with distinction, there he is, standing in the middle of everything, gumming up the works, micro-managing, driving everybody crazy.
Pretty good right. But my personal favorite is number 8:
Work hours are hard to predict. There are long stretches of unmanaged, vague, pointless activity or inactivity, followed by short bursts of frenzy. Weekends are not safe. Vacations are not honored. Your time is not your own.
If your time isn’t your own, your life isn’t your own. Why would you want to work for someone who has no respect for your life or who wants to manage it that closely. Sounds like a dog of a job to me. If you want to read the rest of Bing’s list check out this post.
