If I could say one thing to my really bad boss…

… it would  be what a relief it was to finally realize that he was the crazy one.  It happened one day during one of our meetings.  We’ll call this really bad boss, Napoleon.  Napoleon said something so ridiculous, we all tried to pretend we didn’t hear it.   He’d said ridiculous things before, but it had always been one-on-one and I’d rationalized them by telling myself,  He is the one in charge, he must know what he’s talking about. Everyone else thinks he’s great.  I just must not fully comprehend his greatness.  It must be me, something must be wrong with me. 

And for a moment, when Napoleon, in a pitiful attempt at building company loyalty, encouraged …no, demanded that we “drink the Kool-Aid”, I thought maybe I’d  misunderstood him.  Maybe he wasn’t referring to the infamous Jonestown and its completely insane leader, Jim Jones, who led 918 members of his 1970’s cult, including children, to commit mass suicide by drinking the cyanide laced drink.  Maybe he was referring to the other cult incident where the mass consumption of Kool-Aid ended with everyone living long, happy, prosperous lives. 

So now here we were, a room full of people, all thinking the same thing…something about this man, this situation and this moment is very wrong.  And, it was a relief.  A relief  to finally get confirmation of what I’d been thinking for so long.  It was a relief to realize that I wasn’t the only one who saw it.  Today, if I had the chance to say something to Napoleon, it would be that the day I realized he was officially off his rocker, was the day that I confidently and securely climbed back on mine.

If you could say one thing to your really bad boss, what would that one thing be?  Here’s your chance to tell him or her, after the jump.

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