Or rather, “My Boss is a Big Giant Jack-ass Who Doesn’t Know What the Word Boss Means and Therefore He Can’t Function At That Job Title” Day? That would be around the title I would give for a holiday that celebrates my PG. And guess what – none of my coworkers are doing ANYTHING for the PG. We have all decided to pretend like it is any other day.
We used to plan elaborate things. We would make false meetings and go meet him in cool restaurants. We used to have fun with it. But somewhere along the line the PG has morphed horribly into this boss who can’t function as a boss. I know that he doesn’t like conflict, but now we’ve added the following things that he doesn’t like to do: make decisions, follow deadlines, correct staff, follow the rules, answer his phone, answer email with more than one word, and be at work. In fact, the list of things that he does do has shrunk too (much like his height). He likes to clean the cupboards (too bad we have a janitorial staff that does that too). That’s about it. Oh, he also likes to poke fun of staff, screw off during work, place the blame of things not getting done because he hasn’t done anything onto his staff (ME!), and generally go around and annoy everyone. A couple weeks ago it was damn magnets (Thanks Geeka! He hasn’t said anything about them this week. It’s been blissfully silent with those things gone.) This week he is deciding to work on our huge event next week. He is asking all of these questions, wanting to see the videos, having suggestions, and worried about the fact that we are down over 100 people in comparison from last year.
So, in the glory that National Boss Day is, I have gone researching for some material on Bad Bosses – and man, there is a jackpot of information out there. There must be a lot of PGs out there (or other versions of him). So, to get this started, I must admit that both the Post Gazette and MSN had lead articles on their websites yesterday and today about Bad Bosses. (Now, doesn’t that make everyone stop for a second and say “Why is that?”). Either way, the MSN article gave me the wealth of information that I sought. It started out with this website: http://www.badbosses.net/ - Yep, the Bad Bosses Website. And on this website, they have an assessment tool to rank you boss: Bad Bosses Assessment. Now, this is absolutely the best one to take. Can I say that I love this website? I can also say that this survey calls out the extremes that the PG can be. Let’s just say every one of the passive questions, he scores the highest on. He isn’t the worst boss out there, but when the survey comes up saying “Mayday! Mayday! You could be in store for a crash landing with a very difficult boss!”, I have to tell the survey that it isn’t telling me something that I don’t already know. Too bad there wasn’t a question on there about “Can you bribe your boss with chocolate and do other people in your office use chocolate to gain favors from him?”.
But my research didn’t end there. No way. Instead, I continued on and found some things that I wish I could just drop on his lap someday. There is this website: http://www.badbossology.com/ that has a book called “Coward’s Guide to Conflict” that he ABSOLUTELY FREAKING NEEDS TO READ! However, this site seems to be too serious for my taste. I’ve already sat through one horrible wrong Stress Management class with the PG – I don’t need more advice that is along the lines of “Before going in to see your boss, take two deep breathes and outline your conversation along with the things you want to achieve”. That NEVER works.
So, further research made me find this site, http://www.workingamerica.org/badboss/ which I wish I would have found earlier. I don’t know if I’d ever get the guts to submit my PG into a contest because I’m sure he doesn’t rank up in the categories of being a mean boss, he is just a bad boss. Well, according to this website, he is also known as The Second Worst Boss on the Block: BOZO the Boss.
Finally, in honor of Geeka, I googled “My Boss Is A JackAss” and let’s just say, there were plenty of hits (and lots of other blogs – and Geeka was the 6th site that was on the google search with her post: Jackass-palooza ). So that Geeka doesn’t have to go and look these up, here are some that everyone may enjoy: http://www.workrant.com/
My Boss is a Jackass Message Board
http://www.fthisjob.com/node/60
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This post is going to keep me busy for awhile. My boss can give anyone a run for their money.
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