The bulk of our boss horrors are from the power trippers
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 4:14 pm
They’re the worst type of boss and the main reason most people will leave. The power tripper, as the name suggests, is someone who abuses all the power they’ve been entrusted; such as one story where a boss actually escorted a member of staff to the toilet and waited outside the door until they’d finished – because they thought they were tweeting in the toilet!
Dealing with a boss on a power trip is pretty tricky, if you’re too outspoken you’ll annoy them and come under increased fire and if you say nothing you’ll become a door mat. You need to be a little clever. Make sure you get anything important in writing – such as any targets you're set and/or the hours you work.
It’s also good to know your employee rights – Citizens Advice has a lot of information on egypt phone number resource their website, or you can speak to someone over the phone or even face-to-face in one of 3,500 Citizens Advice Bureaus – then you can challenge any actions that are made against you.
And though this may seem simple, know what’s in your contract – you may find that you aren’t doing tasks you're supposed to, or that the tasks you’ve been assigned aren’t within your remit.
But again, if you’re not happy at work and it’s affecting your quality of life outside the hours of 9-5, making you dream of the day you kill your boss, frame him for murder or kidnap him, then it may be time to move on. At the end of the day you work to live, and unless you’re one of the few fortunate people that love their work so much they live to work, becoming miserable, bitter and probably a horrible boss yourself one day just isn’t worth your time and effort – but it does make for very funny movies!
Dealing with a boss on a power trip is pretty tricky, if you’re too outspoken you’ll annoy them and come under increased fire and if you say nothing you’ll become a door mat. You need to be a little clever. Make sure you get anything important in writing – such as any targets you're set and/or the hours you work.
It’s also good to know your employee rights – Citizens Advice has a lot of information on egypt phone number resource their website, or you can speak to someone over the phone or even face-to-face in one of 3,500 Citizens Advice Bureaus – then you can challenge any actions that are made against you.
And though this may seem simple, know what’s in your contract – you may find that you aren’t doing tasks you're supposed to, or that the tasks you’ve been assigned aren’t within your remit.
But again, if you’re not happy at work and it’s affecting your quality of life outside the hours of 9-5, making you dream of the day you kill your boss, frame him for murder or kidnap him, then it may be time to move on. At the end of the day you work to live, and unless you’re one of the few fortunate people that love their work so much they live to work, becoming miserable, bitter and probably a horrible boss yourself one day just isn’t worth your time and effort – but it does make for very funny movies!