<p>I hear that most dislike their bosses. Is that true?</p>
<p>Do you like your boss, and have you ever had a bad boss? If so, why was he/she bad?</p>
<p>Also, do you get along better with your boss or your coworkers?</p>
<p>My current boss is a fantastic manager and mentor. I like his managing style and down to earth attitude. I’ve been blessed that in my long career with multiple jobs at multiple places I only had one bad boss (he was a micromanaging psychopath who thought that he was a genius, but I learned how to deal with my daily interactions with him). I chose to vote with my feet and left that place when the first opportunity came along. That was the best career move I’ve made so far. :)</p>
<p>My boss is wonderful. We’ve been working together in various capacities (and even companies!) for 24 years. I am very fortunate. In my 25 years of working, I’ve also only had one difficult boss and she was difficult because of legitimate and serious personal difficulties.</p>
<p>I’ve had very few bosses that I disliked. I had a tremendous amount of respect and admiration for my last boss. I’d work for her forever-she retired, though, so not happening.:)</p>
<p>I’ve had good ones and bad ones. The worst one was not only lazy but undermined me at many a turn.</p>
<p>I’ve also had good ones and bad ones. It’s actually poor practice to “dislike” your boss, as it’s difficult to keep that emotion out of one’s working relationship. It’s a little like that old Army wheeze … you salute the uniform, not the man (or woman) wearing it.</p>
<p>I only had one bad boss. I’m a teacher and was dealing with a very, very difficult parent. My boss was absolutely not supportive of anything that came up in one particular meeting. (It was attack, attack, attack.) The summer before that year, another parent complained to him that I “had” to tutor her son because I felt guilty that I didn’t spend enough time with him during the schoolday (and that’s also why I didn’t charge for my time). I subsequently lost all confidence to teach for years as a result of him and those parents. Then again, this was in a private school.</p>
<p>But, yeah! I had my evaluation yesterday where I work and got all top scores. Plus, students from my first school are all seniors in HS now and they’ve friended me on FB and write “Hi Lima! I was thinking of you.”</p>
<p>I have mediocre feelings about my present boss. In some ways he is very good but in others not so good. I have generally had good management and luckily those that were not good moved on. I am in my 33rd year at this job and can retire at anytime (except that I have a D in college in the States). The going joke with my boss is that he is on the 1 and 2 program, upset me once and you get 2 weeks notice</p>
<p>This could be a very reflective topic though because I am a boss and I do wonder at times what people think of me.</p>
<p>Currently I’m my own boss. Some days I like myself better than others. ;)</p>
<p>I like my boss as a person, but she drives me crazy as a boss. She goes from a slightly overbearing but smart and funny acquaintance, to a micromanaging psycho, randomly with no warning. It’s really wearing. I never know if it’s going to be a good B day, or a bad B day. I think we’d get along fine if she wasn’t my boss. (and that’s one reason for my other thread about possibly quitting.)</p>
<p>The boss I had in my first full time job turned out to be the best boss I every had. She was upbeat, funloving, positive, trained us well, had our backs at all times and in return she had our loyalty. We were a close knit group in payroll/HR, since we were confidential employees. She created a team environment that we all bought into. With all the new fangled business jargon, training, methods for motivating employees, I would kill to have her back again. It isn’t rocket science, but I have never had another boss like her. I have been thinking of sending her an email and telling her that. Gotta stop thinking about doing it and just do it.</p>
<p>Bosses I have had since don’t have a clue.</p>
<p>One of my early bosses invented both the microwave oven and color TV but RCA stole both ideas from him. He was a charmer. He is going to be the first chapter in my book.</p>
<p>vtoodler- in most cases bosses are okay but even when we like them we can complain about them because no one is perfect.</p>
<p>I have moved around a lot at my present company so I have had various bosses along the way. For the most part they have all been very good. I’m currently an ‘assistant’ to my boss (since August) and we have a great working relationship together. I wonder what everyone thinks of me… I think they like me, haha! I’m in a weird spot because I’m still a ‘regular’ employee so I do my day to day activities along side everyone else however I step in and am in charge when she’s not there and I facilitate meetings and whatnot. I’m working my way up the ladder towards a managerial position like hers once a spot for me is available. It’s great to get a bit of experience as the go to girl to put on my list of accomplishments at work. :)</p>
<p>I have mostly liked my bosses–with a few exceptions and hope my staff likes me (I figure they probably do or they would drift away). I have difficulty with ones who lie–to you and others and try to steal credit for ideas and efforts of others. Also have problems with toxic/negative ones, but fortunately haven’t had to be around those much.</p>
<p>Hubby has had mostly good bosses as well. The good/bad thing for him is that most of his bosses rotate out after a year or at most three so no matter how good or bad it is, it is of limited duration. Mostly he’s left to do his own responsibilities and tell them what he did/does. He likes it that way. 
He really hates to supervise & BE a boss, so mostly he’s been able to avoid that as well.</p>