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You might love this day, you might hate this day! Who knows?

Only you, really!

Maybe me now too! I invite everyone out there who needs to vent or wants to celebrate their wonderful bosses a chance to share!

Please, comment and let me know. Do you have a good boss or a terrible boss?

And I’ll start!

My first boss, at my first job was a total nightmare to work for. I won’t mention where I worked or their name. But they were not a pleasant person to work for.

Ever.

They were the type of person, that if they saw something wrong, they’d get someone else to fix it while they stared at you. While you did the job. Then they would yell at you about what you did wrong. Even though yesterday this practice was perfectly fine.

No warning.

No notice.

Nothing.

Just a sudden abrupt change in the rules and a claim that they never said the first thing.

Then tomorrow, the same would happen.

No amount of meetings and such with them ever helped. They would say one thing to me, another thing to someone else. All the while claiming they never said that.

They also used the word, ‘fantastic’ for f*cking everything.

They once wanted me to drive hours away to get signs I reordered because they got placed on the wrong truck and went to the wrong location. Oops. It happens. But they wanted me to drive to get them that day, after I’d worked a nine hour shift. And would return tomorrow for another nine hour shift.

Somehow, when I explained I would not drive nearly two states away for signs I reordered because gas and my time were not theirs to use as they pleased. They said the reordered signs would cost money. I said so would gas and my time, because you’d pay for both. Somehow, they still thought that was the better option.

I said no. Went home and was treated like shit for the next week until he finally found someone else to be mad at.

Once, I asked for my bereavement day so I could go to a great aunt’s funeral. A day, I was allowed by the company policy regardless of the relative who died. I got more days if the person was closer in relation to me. I.E. a parent or spouse or sibling.

I was not required by the handbook which I thankfully read to explain beyond the day I needed, and that the person was a relative of mine.

My boss questioned me regardless about how we were related and that if they were such a distant relative, did I need to go? I didn’t know them that well, did I?

Thankfully, I read the handbook, and just reiterated that I required Wednesday off for a funeral as per the employee handbook. They shut up after that, but my workload strangely doubled as though me missing a day increased my work so much. It didn’t. I had staff to cover.

And even I didn’t, that was their fault for never giving me enough hours or people to cover when I wasn’t there.

They gave me the worst people they didn’t want anymore and expected me to run my department flawlessly.

Nothing about this boss was good. Nothing.

I quit that job and moved on.

To the boss I currently have.

Who is a delight.

Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum. There is nothing she says, she doesn’t mean. If she promises something, she keeps her word.

She cares about her staff and knows that other things happen outside the walls we work in. She’s calm, caring, reassuring, and stands for no BS. Ever.

If there is ever a problem, she wants to know about it so she can handle it accordingly. The last thing she wants is to have an unsafe or uncomfortable situation.

She’s handled a stalker situation with grace and compassion.

Family members of employees having been lost.

Myself included.

I was out for nearly two weeks when I lost my Nana and she was there every step of the way offering support and care. She even attempted to come to the funeral to be there for me, but her son was rushed to the hospital. She apologized profusely and while I was grieving I just wanted know her son was alright. There was nothing to do for my Nana but mourn. Her son needed care and her.

That’s all that mattered.

She’s left in the middle of her shift to be there for another son when he had a scary incident at school. She was worried about work and felt bad for leaving me and the assistant manager alone to handle things. But we ushered her out the door knowing full well she would and has done it for us.

She would never ask someone to do something she herself isn’t willing to do.

She’ll ring on a register. Answer phones. Questions. Customers. Endlessly answer our stupid questions and deal with red tape for us.

A woman once had a panic attack, and my boss got her through it.

She backs us up and is there for us no matter what’s happening. There is never a worry that if we do something wrong that she’s going to be mad. There might be a conversation about better ways to handle things in the future, but she’ll never make you feel small or belittled.

She is truly a joy to work with and a kind woman who deserves nothing but the best life has to offer.

I hope she knows that her staff loves working for her and would bend over backwards for her.

She’d do it for us.

Those are my wildly differing bosses. What’s your story?

Let me know!

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