Comments about ‘Send me your tales of horrible bosses — or excellent ones’

i have had good and bad bosses---and i don't think reasonableness is a sufficient standard---by definition unreasonable is just a declaration that an issue is closed---

the ones i perceived as good were often unreasonable but helped me be either a better worker, or better person, or both---

my worst boss was formerly a co-employee from another department, whom i was asked to train as my boss---he was arrogant, did not listen, and did not understand our employee issues when getting instructions from his bosses---i don't think he even understood the mission of the company/department---i stuck it out; they fired him---

my worst experience with employment was when i worked for a country club where it seemed as if all 400 members and their wives and sometimes their kids, thought they were my boss---that made it very hard to set and achieve priorities in even the smallest things because that number of bosses rarely agreed on anything---

Most bosses I've encountered are good people with unreasonable demands because of unreasonable company policies from uninformed, greedy, and/or negligent CEO's.

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I have worked for only one employer that I thought had ANY amount of respect for the treatment of employees.

That was Marriott (MVCI), in SLC.

The last 1 1/2 years or so has proven that even a great place to work can go very quickly down-hill.

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This is why I am going to school to eventually be self-employed... because we just can't trust anyone else to ethically-sound business anymore, just the business of higher profit margins, less pay for anyone below the CEO, and great PR to hide any doubt that the system is flawed.