Do You Like Your Boss?

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I don't like my boss. She can be quite condescending and a little hostile at times. She's pretty immature and impatient, and not a good manager at all. I was told about the string of five people who came and went from my position in the few months before I started and was led To believe they were all let go due to incompetence. I now know that they all left of their own accord, and I also know why. I won't be following in their footsteps, though, because I am paid well for putting up with her crap, and it will pay off even more in the future through valuable work experience and possibility of advancement. But I've given up thinking it will ever subside, no matter how long I work here.

I just wanted to briefly complain about that and find out what others think of their bosses.
 
My boss is a robot.

I work in a factory. :(
 
My boss is great. She takes me out for lunch and buys me cakes! :D
 
Yes I like myself.
 
My boss is amazing and he also happens to be one of my closest friends.

With all the things that he is done for me, I will be indebted to him forever.
 
Hahaha, I'm never on time.
 
My boss is awsome. He's always nice. I come in to work and he walks by and says "Hey Ryan how was school?". He bought me lunch once(I don't expect him to). Really, he's a cool guy. However, the owner of the place, the Fusz Jr, can be quite ignorant. He walks up to me as I'm cleaning a car, doesn't even say "hi", points to something on the car and says "You need to fix this". He has also told me twice that the speedlimit in the parking lot is 5mph(yet his dad, Fusz Sr, regularly does 20+ in his Buick, and everyone else at the place drives reasonably fast(10-15). Couple of days back me, the 2 guys I work with, and some helper kids(we had our big used car sale so kids help out) were standing in the cleaning bay waiting for a car to clean up and Fusz walks by and says "You guys working today?" We're like "Yes" And he's like "Well get a shammy and do something!" and storms off. Yet he doesn't tell the salesmen who are doing completely nothing to work or anything. And you know what's funny? People are scared of Fusz Jr. I'm not. I mean I won't try to get fired or anything, but he's so phony with his $500 Million and acting like he cares about the people that work for him(that's why he witheld my dad's(and others) vacation pay til after the strike is settled) that it's hard for me to be nice to him. One of my other bosses, the service manager, is nice most of the time but when he gets stressed he's quite annoying. Since the strike, he does some work at the Nissan building. He doesn't have any tools, so he took most of ours, our Fusz license plates and frames, all of our plate screws, and some other stuff. I asked him "What are we supposed to use?" and he's like "Well, all of the new cars have plates so what's your problem?" I said "Well, they break, we get dealer trades, we need some supplies" He's like "Well you'll have to find them on your own". So then on a Saturday he wasn't working and I was quite tired of rummaging around the shop looking for stuff, I drove a 3 over to the Nissan building, walked through the place to the service drive through, and took our supplies back, leaving him 2 plates and 4 frames and some other stuff that wasn't ours. On Monday he sends a secretary that was working with him(yeah, doing mechanical stuff, lol) over to take the stuff and she started yelling and all this and said "Well we could let you put the plates on the cars" I said "Good, I'll do it!" She left in a hurry. I get a page to call a number. When I call it, it's the service manager and he's like "You know Ryan, we need those plates and tools" I said "As do we" He's like "you stole them from us" I said "Where did you steal them from?" He's like "well, we need the stuff and I run these places and you don't need to do that, don't take it personal", and hung up. Lol.
 
Someone bring MazKid an Enter key, STAT!

Darin
You weren't on time this morning, Dave...

Oh my God.... I'm being stalked by HAL!

*runs off screaming*

I like my boss. It helps that I have the same number of degrees as him. And that he's just had 6 weeks holiday.
 
LMAO, sorry bout that, kinda just started typing. Couldn't find an ending point.
 
Some are better than others.

I work for a large A/E firm. A slew of offices all over the US. My direct boss is in over her head. She's got too much on her plate, and it's only 2/3 of her job duties. Her Boss I rarely see. In fact, the most conversation he and I have had, was concerning his new porsche.

He's currently got a 1970 911 (absolutely beautiful) and he's purchasing a 1987 911.

My previous Boss was perhaps the best I've had. He ran the business like a family, and was smart enough to know when to spank and when to praise.

AO
 
my boss is a cool guy. He's really nice and we get to joke around a lot. Today was a bad day though... He didn't give me my damn lunch break - I don't give a damn if the power is out in the store and they're understaffed for the day. I want food damnit!

sorry, the store's grand opening was today and it was a total mess. Nobody got lunch/dinner till their shift was over
 
My boss is the ****. He let's me get away with anything I want. He let's me bull**** when other people are working their asses off. If there's a way/position for me to make more money he tells me about it, and gives in a good word to the superiors so I can make it. He always buys us beer. He always gives us smoke breaks whenever the hell we want, etc.

There's been several different occasions when I could transfer to different departments, and make more money, but I always decline the oppurtunity because my boss is cool as ****, and I don't want to put up with the other department's boss.
 
I cannot comment at this time, please see me again when I am employed.
 
I like my boss, alot.
Hes been working at the same gas station for like, 40 years or something.
Hes got cancer, and gonna die, and all we do together is sit around and talk about cars.

I'm mad at him because he called the Mclaren F1 a "Mercades Mclaren F1"
He watches too much F1, and not enough Top Gear.
 
Previous boss ---> Lazy, incompetant, jackas$, who drank two half liter bottles of coke a day at work and had the intelligence of grass-cuttings.

New boss ---> Incredibly competant, focused, professional and approachable. A bit expressionless, so hard to judge how the land lies sometimes, but a minor aspect of the relationship.
 
Well, my old boss just went into semi-retirement (sweet deal; I wouldn't want to be her but she sure has played her cards well).

My direct boss is OK; he's actually a year or two younger than I but he's been more of a dedicated career tool so I don't resent it. He's pretty approachable; he at least knows some of his crap, and he listens to input.

My boss above the first guy is a bit more opinionated; very Dale Carnegie school. He's reasonable to work for but you can tell he got his management style straight out of a book and he is going to follow that book. I have a reasonable amount of respect for all of them.
 
I have two. One is really so far just a boss in title, the other is acting as a boss - I'll talk about the second guy.

I like him pretty well. He knows the work a lot better than I do (which is good) and he always keeps me busy (which is good too).

If there's anything he's doing wrong its that I don't get enough feedback. I'd like to know how I'm doing a little more often. When he does give me feedback it's hard to understand.

I prefer people to be blunt:

This was good, here's why.
That's not what I wanted, here's what I want.

Pretty simple, but that's not what I get. I get either nothing at all, a general pat on the back, or a "well, um, it's not what I was expecting exactly but it's not... bad..." which means it's bad.
 
Mike Rotch
Previous boss ---> Lazy, incompetant, jackas$, who drank two half liter bottles of coke a day at work and had the intelligence of grass-cuttings.

New boss ---> Incredibly competant, focused, professional and approachable. A bit expressionless, so hard to judge how the land lies sometimes, but a minor aspect of the relationship.


LMAO @ "grass cuttings " 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 :lol:
 
Depends... Personally - I think he's über suckage.. But as I've been snooping lately, and found out he's only here to demoralise the department before the upcoming closing of it, he HAS done an incredible job...

Looks like it'll be pink slip day around the 31. of October 👍 - Who here can spell "5 months vacation with full pay" ? :lol:
 
M5Power
My boss is a robot.

I work in a factory. :(

Liar...we all know your only boss is Alan Grenspan.

My bosses are okay, we can joke with them and kid around, but I have about 10 of them in all different departments. They give us a bit of leeway and trust in our everyday decisions.

However, asking for a raise is just about out of the question. ("Wanna raise? Work harder, and write more hours.") They are rather PC and hush-hush until you push them to the brink of insanity for real answers to tough questions (hey, they're pros at it). It's honestly easier when they tell you what to do when you have a question because you admit you're not sure what in the heck is going on.
 
My boss is great. She gives me guidance and support, and allows me to run my team how I like. Of course, because she's been my mentor, that's pretty much how she would do it...

In the last year, we've moved the bar so far that our bosses are kinda stumped for ways to criticise us. It's great.
 
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