How can you tell if your boss is a "BAD BOSS"?

Does your boss:

• Ignore "people" issues such as support, development and conflict?
• Criticize, downplay or ignore your ideas; or take credit for your work?
• Lack necessary knowledge, skills or experience in your field or profession?
• Ignore serious problems or make them worse?
• Measure results based only on things that can be easily counted?
• Hire unqualified employees, vendors or consultants?
• Do the nitty-gritty, detailed work in your department?
• Insult, taunt, harass, or threaten you; or snap, shout or curse at you?
• Expect you to agree with her or his ideas, or give you incorrect information?
• Gossip with your peers or encourage infighting and internal competition?
• Use company assets inappropriately or unethically?
• Work against company goals and programs while pretending to support them?
• Appear to have different personalities on different day

If you report to a bad boss, know these four things:

1. Some bosses want to be bad and they're not going to change.
2. Bad bosses know how to get away with what they're doing.
3. You're not imagining it--it is really happening.
4. You are not the problem.
   

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