What are some qualities of bad bosses? What would you not do if you were supervising others? (Reachback to 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nYou know, I had a laundry list of things I thought I’d write when I plucked this one out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Would i speak to some of these folks if I met them in person? Yes, yes, no, yes, maybe, yes, yes, briefly maybe, still do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thinking about it, more, the really bad bosses fall into two categories: self-aggrandizers, and “company men.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For me, it’s complicated by the travails I was experiencing during the bad years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But there really weren’t many who even attempted to understand what I was going through; the realities of my personal situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe that’s something that’s gone on with the pandemic situation, too; I know very little about my coworkers and supervisors. But I guess, too, the big thing the really bad bosses were certainly on top of is really dead. I see stories on the news about spyware on employees’ laptops to see that their asses are in seats moving their cursors at the expected intervals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But so much of my thinking is flavored by my particular industry. I don’t fit here, anymore. The only representation of success is your Minesweeper skills. There’s no analysis. There’s only whether you can get to 80% on a “test.” You don’t need to write. You don’t need to understand why or how a particular product works. You just need to have the letters after your name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So…whatever. I’m ready to take my leave whenever that time comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today’s prompt is less daunting than the one that I thought it was. That’s tomorrow for my trip recap. It’s going to be long. And I need to write about Notes of a Goon over on backatagain.com. So tomorrow might be some longer writing. I keep getting distracted by random things. Today’s was a weird […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}