My Job is Awesome, But My Boss is Wicked

Source: CBS News

Having a job with the best salary, benefits and best working environment is a dream come true for many. But what if you had all these and your boss was the “worst in the world”? What would you do?

Here is an employee with a similar dilemma

“The company I work for is very small (12 of us in total including part-timers). The founder and my boss are also father and son respectively. My boss is a bully and I have been trying to offset his negativity by rising above it, concentrating on the task at hand, and confronting him where necessary. However, nothing seems to help for very long.

I love my job – the work is great and I feel all the things I should feel when satisfied with the content of my day. It’s just I can’t seem to keep my boss happy. I do a universally accepted great job (customers send very positive feedback) and when it comes to appraisal time, he will zero all my efforts by something like forgetting the paper clip.

He doesn’t communicate much, he engages in politicking, he tells half truths which I discover later when talking to other colleagues, he’s never on time for meetings and often just blows them off at the last minute and also complains about everything when everyone else gives a glowing report.

He also undermines my authority (gives me responsibility, takes it away and gives it back last minute if it’s not going well; for me to pick up the pieces and clear his name) and all my ideas are rubbish in his view… need I go on?

Please don’t ask me to update my CV and prepare to look for a new job – it really is a great job, I’ve got a good work-life balance, all my other colleagues are lovely and genuine, I have a fantastic rapport with all my customers and I am doing a great job earning money for the company.

I just need to know how to handle my boss. It is a tricky situation for me.

What advice would you give this employee?

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