The boss from hell

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.