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How to Spot a Bad Boss During a Job Interview
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Does your boss:
Reporting to a Wannabe Boss is like being an orphan and living alone in
the streets. As Wannabe Bosses see it, your job is to help them get away
with not doing their job.Click to download the Wannabe Boss Chapter $3
2. Criticize, downplay or ignore your ideas; or take credit for your work?
Reporting to a Suppressor Boss is like being invisible. Suppressor Bosses
want your unfaltering admiration, reverence and subservience.
Click to download the Suppressor Boss Chapter$3
3. Lack necessary knowledge, skills or experience in your field or profession?
Reporting to a Pretender Boss is like being an indentured servant.
Pretender Bosses want you to treat them as experts even though they
lack technical knowledge, skill, experience, and/or interest.Click to download the Pretender Boss Chapter $3
4. Ignore serious problems or make them worse?
Reporting to a Confounder Boss is like being a robot. Confounder Bosses
want you to let them blunder along without regard for the consequences of
their actions.Click to download the Confounder Boss Chapter$3
5. Measure results based only on things that can be easily counted?
Reporting to a Dumbfounder Boss is like pretending that you do not see
an accident about to happen. Dumbfounder Bosses want you to provide
numerical results reports that make their department look good regardless
of how accurate or complete those results are.Click to download the Dumbfounder Boss Chapter$3
6. Hire unqualified employees, vendors or consultants?
Reporting to a Propagator Boss is like being a devoted cheerleader.
Propagator Bosses want you to be their disciple & co-conspirator, and
help them climb the career ladder.Click to download the Propagator Boss Chapter$3
7. Do the nitty-gritty, detailed work in your department?
Reporting to a Player Boss is like playing with a manipulative and mean
child. Player Bosses want you to praise them as a parent, as if they are a
child who keeps asking, "I'm a good boy/girl, aren't I?"Click to download the Player Boss Chapter$3
8. Insult, taunt, harass, or threaten you; or snap, shout or curse at you?
Reporting to a Bully Boss is like being one of the "Three Little Pigs" living
in a house made of straw or twigs. Bully Bosses want you to consider
them superior to you in all things and tolerate their incivilities.
Click to download the Bully Boss Chapter$39. Expect you to agree with her or his ideas, or give you incorrect information?
Reporting to a Manipulator Boss is like being "Little Red Riding Hood."
Manipulator Bosses want you to be dependent on them regardless of your
position or level of competence.Click to download the Manipulator Boss Chapter$3
10. Gossip with your peers or encourage infighting and internal competition?
Reporting to a Cult-Maker Boss is like being a "Cinderella" or
"Cinderfella," living in servitude. Cult-Maker Bosses want you to worship
them with blind obedience and to go along with the majority without
question.Click to download theCult Maker Boss Chapter$3
11. Use company assets inappropriately or unethically?
Reporting to a Pilferer boss is like being a suspect in a crime with an
unethical investigator searching for evidence against you, as if you are the
guilty one. Pilferer Bosses want you to pretend that you don't see them
take things and/or privileges to which they are not entitled, to help them
gain access to things they can use to their personal advantage, and to
ignore their unwise and inappropriate expenditures of company funds.Click to download the Pilferer Boss Chapter$3
12. Work against company goals and programs while pretending to support them?
Reporting to a Saboteur Boss is like (1) being witness to a crime you're
unable to stop; or (2) living in the past; or (3) being in a cold war. Saboteur
Bosses want you to help them undermine those of your organization's
programs that put them at a personal disadvantage.
Click to download the Saboteur Boss Chapter$313. Appear to have different personalities on different days?
Reporting to a Combination-Type Boss is like walking through a fun house
at the circus. Combination-Type Bosses want you to pretend not to notice
their inconsistencies and adapt to their changing personality on a daily or
hourly basis.Click to download the Combination Type Boss Chapter$3
14. Want to know how to transfer, resign or be prepared for a quick getaway in the future?
Click to download the Basic Bad-Boss Survival Strategies Chapter$1.25
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