“For Cinco de Mayo he came in with fake mustaches so we could all pretend to be ‘Mexican.’ He was putting on an accent while passing them out … When he got called out, he’d say, ‘How am I racist, look around you, I hire people of all colors’”
Photo-Illustration: Marcus Peabody; Photo: Getty Images What makes a boss truly terrible — and how should you deal with it? Advice columnist Alison Green addresses the stories of your worst bosses ever, as part of a weeklong series about what makes a bad boss, and why we’re so tortured by them.I was working at a tech agency run by a husband and wife team. I learned very quickly that the male owner said inappropriate things all the time.
If there was an incident at work — say someone complained about him being racist or someone quit — his go-to was to make these passive-aggressive posts on LinkedIn without naming anyone or referring to what actually happened, but you always knew what he was talking about. Like, he’d post about people being too sensitive these days, or that they lacked loyalty.If this were a larger or more established business, it almost certainly would have HR and you could alert them to what was going on.
We have a policy called scheduled on-call. One day a month, your boss can call you and make you work anywhere. I would actually give my boss some respect if he worked an on-call shift. We have some managers who are near his level who actually work on the ambulance. In fact, the chief executive officer of our organization has worked a few shifts on the ambulance to cover for employees who got sick. But this guy, I mean, this guy, not in the last five to ten years has worked on an ambulance.
It also sounds like your boss handles authority poorly. He should be looking for ways to say “yes” to people when he can, not making “no” his default. And if you’re right that he sees saying “no” as a good way to emphasize his authority, he’s entirely missed the point of what managing is about. There’s far more power in responding to a request with “this will be tricky but let’s see if we can find a way to make it work” than in just defaulting to a refusal.
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