Here Is Why You Hate Your Boss and I Hate Mine
Your boss acts like he is a god but you believe that he is a moron.
One day my boss came to the office around 11 am and saw one of my teammates scrolling Facebook. Being irritated, he told me to follow him. When I did so and find myself in his chamber, this is what he said —
“Why is Tom using Facebook? Is this a place for doing whatever you people want? I don’t want anyone to waste a single minute. It makes my blood boil. Go and tell him to do his work!” My boss was dead serious and extremely annoyed.
Well, you may say that my boss is right. I mean, why on earth will you scroll social media in the office and expect that your boss to appreciate it, right? Come on! It’s an office, and all you should do here is work. Isn’t it?
Tom was a graphic designer, and we were jointly working on a project. When our boss entered the office out of nowhere, Tom was taking a small break to clear his mind. Unfortunately, he chose the wrong thing on that occasion and got caught.
At that time, I was only a few months into that job. But trust me — within that few months, I had already started to hate my boss more than anything.
I discovered that my boss wouldn’t trust any of us. And he used to think that if he didn’t keep us under pressure, we would not do any work. But he was wrong. I saw others working day and night to make the company successful, but my boss didn’t notice any of that. Maybe didn’t want to.
Because of you, we lost WWII and blah blah blah…
In our company, we all used to attend a joint meeting every Saturday. Our boss would discuss the upcoming projects and instruct us about our responsibilities. He talked, talked, and talked and listened to ours as well. And the thing he would never miss in any meeting was to remind us of our previous faults.
No matter how many great things you did for the company, your company will forget everything if you do just one wrong. That’s the thing our boss believed in.
For example, five years before I joined that company, Ravin — one of my colleagues — was in charge of organizing a press conference. He did all the hard work -booking the venue, journalist invitation, monitoring the event team, and all. But on the day of the event, it turned out that he forgot to invite a top journalist our client demanded. Now, you can imagine what happened later.
Our boss would bring this topic in each and every meeting and blame Ravin for his fault. Of course, after that event, he successfully organized hundreds of meetings, seminars, and roundtables. But all our boss remembered was that one fault.
You should quit your family and marry your office
“Own the office, own the office” — we heard this line countless times from our boss. We would come to the office on time, do our works religiously, show respect to our boss, and love our colleagues. But we were confused because no matter what we did, our boss would always say — ‘You have to own the office.’
It was a mystery what he meant by saying that. But later, we understood that in his dictionary, ‘owning the office’ means you’ve to come to the office early and leave at midnight. If possible, forget about your family and sleep on your desk.
Well, if you are wondering — when the work pressure was enormous, a few of our colleagues would stay at the office till midnight. But sadly, they — like all others — failed to own the office.
Now, please tell me, if your boss treats you like machines, how long will you respect him? No wonder why all of my former colleagues and I left that company and joined somewhere better.
No…No…No! — You are responsible for this.
Our boss would always think that we find ways not to do our works. And if anything wrong happens, it’s our fault.
In one winter, we celebrated a pilot project completion event, and I was in charge of everything. It was a project to help deprived students with a monthly stipend. Anyway, we organized a huge event. First, nearly two thousand students attended the morning awareness rally. Then a cultural event was organized where govt. Officials and local leaders were present.
My team worked very hard for this day-long event — we trained the students to perform songs, poetry recitations, and drama. We also hired a local band to perform in that event.
Everything was going fine. I was busy taking some photographs of the program and monitoring the overall activities. Then, suddenly, the electricity was gone while the drama was being performed. My boss panicked and looked at me. I told him that within a few minutes, the generator line would be connected.
Anyway, it took around 5 minutes to resume the program due to that power failure. But the program went in full swing and ended successfully.
Now, guess what!!! Without appreciating me for successfully organizing the event, my boss told me that I should have taken the electricity issue seriously before the program. It’s my fault that I hadn’t taken this seriously.
I think people who hate their boss face situations like this. They do the hard work, but all go unnoticed.
Your boss forgets everything good you’ve done for the company and only remembers your failures. You are responsible for all failures but for all good things — it’s your boss and the company who takes all the credit.
I don’t smile because I am the boss!
My boss had a great smile (I believe he still has), but he rarely used his smiles in front of us. I don’t know why he would always show his grumpy face in the office and never appreciate us for our works.
Yes — he would smile in front of some big fish who can benefit his company. But, as soon as he turned to us, the lights got fused. He was a typical boss with a grumpy face — not a leader who inspires.
In simple words, our boss would treat us like he did something great, giving us the job. And we should be forever grateful for that and do whatever he told us to do.
Who can love this kind of boss who never appreciates their employees?
We don’t want to hate our boss, but they force us to hate them. Because they hardly treat us like normal human beings. Our bosses think they can hire anyone like us if they throw away some money.
They don’t respect us or give us the credit we deserve. But yes, they always expect that we will do everything for them. How silly! Right?
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