Writer-artist needs Bad Boss Repellant
Leigh Kimmel
Seriously, jumping thru stupid hoops (ie doing work I couldn't care less
about just to get the money) is endurable (altho often it's an endurance
contest that drains my energy and enthusiasm for life), but what makes
it unbearable is the bosses who should never have been put into
supervisory positions. I'm talking about the ones who seriously have No
Clue about how to deal with people, and particularly the ones who use
employees as a source of personal ego-gratification.
I just had a really bad one, and I think that my problems with her were
directly related to my being the one out of four people who got the
budget axe when the funding for the fourth position dried up. I'm
dreading the thought that whatever new job I get could move me right
back into that same sort of situation.
I've gotten to the point where I'm starting to think that, if I had to
choose between doing what I care about under a lousy boss and doing
something I don't give a damn about under someone who knows how to
*lead*, I'd pick the latter. (Of course I'd rather not have to work
under anyone at all, but it looks like that may be a long way off, and I
may have to wear the mask of subordination for a long while).
--
"I really don't see the signal." ---- Admiral Lord Nelson
Leigh Kimmel -- writer, artist and historian
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William Haskell
>
> What I'd like is some "Pointy-Haired-Boss-B-Gone".
>
I know Jerry Collins (of Bambioid fame) ran an ad in one of his zines
for something called "Oi-B-Gone," a spray for repelling neoN@zi*
skinheads - dunno how well it would work for Pointy-Haired Bosses,
though.
* Oops! Almost used the N word.