I’m sure many people complain about their bosses, it’s normal
to dislike a person that insists on spending their days telling you what to do
and how to do it. Sounds rather feudal and old-fashioned, doesn’t it. This is
especially so when your boss ends up in a position of authority not because he’s
good at it, but because he’s the oldest employee in the company and they had to
do something with him. He rose through the ranks not on skill but on persistence
and loyalty to the company. Not great leadership traits for sure! If this
sounds like your boss then you are well on your way to empathising with me in
the misery I face every day in dealing with my boss. Now add to this man an
excessive drinking problem and you will get a pretty good idea of who I am
working with. (That sentence is full of grammatical errors, but I like it as it
is, so it stays).
He is a man that causes stress and havoc with his every
movement. If someone sees him arrive in the building the word is passed through
the hotel so that everyone is aware and can go into hiding as he passes
through. God forbid you are within his sights when he walks around, something,
somewhere within a few metres will be desperately wrong and entail a degrading and
demeaning lecture where you are invariably called stupid or childish.
It’s not all bad, I have found that having a dreadful boss
brings staff closer together. When there is a common enemy differences are
overcome between staff and everyone will stick together, will cover for each
other and in general gang up on the boss in a mutual group of loathing. Tight friendships
are formed that might never have occurred if you didn’t need someone to whisper
to about the latest awful thing the boss said. Comfort and empathy are not far
away as everyone has felt his wrath, his passive aggressive statements and his
demeaning speeches. I will take the good from this experience and ignore the
bully that is my boss, it is after all only one season and in 2.5 months I will
be on my way to the beaches in Spain and he will still be the miserable and
unhappy man he is now.
