Do you like your boss?

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I've had good and bad and been other peoples boss before so kinda know how hard it is to balance everything right.

My current boss* is short, fat, eat's all day, watches tv at work and spends 99% of his day on Neowin!

*yup... it's me :D

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My boss is a really good guy, and good to work for. The company I work for is a great place for IT. I even like the upper management of the IT group in which I work. It took me 20 years of IT jobs to find this place however. 20 years of mostly bad to unreasonable jobs, management and hours.

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My boss is nice, authoritive but not condescending. Still; he's a bit salesy to be on the same level as us developers

[Edit] Realised that made me sound a bit stuck up. I meant he's not a developer so he doesn't get our humour much, not that sales men are below developers...

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My Boss....

1) You call is sick, he will get ****ed and say "ok" and hang up on you.

2) Try to talk to him, you are bugging him. He will get upset and be really negative...sighing and everything.

3) Over commits my time, and my teams, personal and work time. Doesnt check in with us to see if we are working on something so we have to drop what we are working on to support him.

4) Big hypocrite. He gets ****ed if we are a little late or leave a little early but yet he can be 30 min late and its no issue.

5) Puts in his 2, worthless, cents where it doesnt belong. will inturrupt your convo to say what he needs.

6) Shutdown the office several times. Once was when he, and a consultant, were flipping breakers during the middle of the day in the server room to find out what sockets go to what breakers.

7) Will go to bike week and share half naked pics with the whole department.

8) Talks about porn A LOT

9) Cannot voice your opinion or disagree with anything or else he will get ****ed, upset, and yell.

Thats all off the top of my head...there is MUCH more and it would fill several pages. Basically my boss is an idiot who is very inconsiderate and hypocritical. He should not be a director at all and basically no one in the department cares much for him. Why he is still here, I have no idea. Kinda hard to get people fired where I work.

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No, My department manager (direct boss) is an idiot. Around xmas time i messed up an order. My fault, I admitted that. However he made it seem like it was the beginning of world war 3? The store manager kinda took it on the shoulder and "Yeah, stuff happens" attitude to it.

If he sees you doing a job... Not as he would do it. Bang. "You should do it this way." He has been in his job for 5 years. Yes he is experienced. I have been doing the same job for 3 years now... i am a supervisor under him... Surely you would think i know as good as him? If i don't order a certain product (rushed because of him, time problems or just plain forgot) then he has a moan saying "Why isn't this on sale, You did the order!" Where as... If he did it... Oh, no, its perfectly fine! he has no sense of time... "I told you to get that done 4 hours ago!" - "erm... no, it was about 40 minutes ago and i haven't had time yet..." unfair to all staff. If you are a) female b) attractive you are fine, male or not good looking you will get all the bad jobs.

Let alone the amount of figures and numbers he makes up... he doesn't and can't play with sales (to my knowledge) but our waste target is £200 per week... Even if we have £400+ of stock out of date, Damaged etc he will still make it <£200...

Overall i feel sorry for him... He is 38, manager in a supermarket and does so many extra hours... for £0 extra pay, If he is working 1pm-10pm he will be in the store and start work by 9:30am working straight through to 10pm... for the same pay as working 1-10pm... Sad... Just sad...

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Out of every job I've ever had, my current boss is, without doubt, the best I've ever met. All of his expectations are very reasonable, he is extremely fair, and generally is a very respectful guy. In addition, he's one of the few managers I've met who actually realize that not everything is perfect and sometimes mistakes happen - as long as you admit your mistakes, he's happy and tries to help you learn how to avoid repeating it (on contrary to most bosses I've had, one of which fired me for giving out $3 too much change on a night when I made over $2000 in sales).

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Out of every job I've ever had, my current boss is, without doubt, the best I've ever met. All of his expectations are very reasonable, he is extremely fair, and generally is a very respectful guy. In addition, he's one of the few managers I've met who actually realize that not everything is perfect and sometimes mistakes happen - as long as you admit your mistakes, he's happy and tries to help you learn how to avoid repeating it (on contrary to most bosses I've had, one of which fired me for giving out $3 too much change on a night when I made over $2000 in sales).

I used to have the same experience you are having right now. Unfortunately, I'm having the exact opposite experience now. Times can always change though.

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