Nov 29 2008
Bosses - Good, Bad and Ugly
Let’s talk about bosses for a minute. We all have a few horror stories in our personal vaults. I may have a few more than the next person, having been in charge of human resources for twenty-five years, which includes employee relations, I had to get involved in all kinds of crazy situations and mediations.
Regarding the bosses I have worked for in the past, I have to say that most of them were great folks with good people skills, high integrity and fun to be around, for the most part. Then there were the “turkeys”.
One, I will call him Osbald, was a first rate jerk. When the owners of the company were out of the office on Jewish holidays, he would go around the office, trash talking them and proclaiming loudly,”The killed our Lord.” When the owners returned, he would act sickly sweet to them, kind of like a Jeykll and Hyde act, only with deliberate, malicious intent.
Then there was one - I’ll call him “Sleezeball” - who wanted to touch me. He seemed particularly intent on touching or stroking my hair, and would try to sneak up behind me and grab a handful before I was aware he was there. I backed into him accidentally (of course) and my chair caster ran over his foot. It hurt for days, he said. My response was “S#$t happens.”
