You might be a really bad boss if…

icon1 Posted by denised in Featured Articles on 04 16th, 2009 | 15 responses

 So people are talking about reallybadboss.com and you’re laughing along with them and participating in the water cooler conversations when it dawns on you that you’re a boss yourself.  You start to wonder if your employees could be talking about you.  Not sure if you’re a really bad boss?  Here are five surefire ways to tell: You might be a really bad boss if…

  1. You inspire the creation of the website www.reallybadboss.com – If your actions and behavior are so mind numbingly ridiculous that they inspire the creation of a cottage industry based primarily on the asinine things you’ve said and done, you can rest assured…you’re a really bad boss.  
  2. Your turnover rate is 100%  – Ok, so maybe not 100%, but if people would rather make minimum wage dressed like  sandwiches/crustacean/ the statue of liberty and dance in the street in front of the local sandwich/seafood/tax preparation shop – in Arizona, in July – than work for you, you might be a really bad boss.
  3. The term “Bossnapping” is coined to describe what your employees have just done to you – Some French workers have taken their disgust at their really bad bosses too far. A rash of boss kidnappings – Bossnappings – have plagued France recently.  Worse, 45% of French people surveyed think that it’s ok.  Let’s hope Bossnapping doesn’t cross the ocean.  Felonies don’t look good on resumes.
  4. There has been at least one assassination (or coup) attempt on your life, and you work in, for example…the paper goods industry – Assassination attempts and coups are pretty common in some of the more volatile areas of the world where dissatisfaction with leadership is the norm and not the exception. But, Michael Scott notwithstanding, if you make paper or thumbtacks, or some very uncontroversial product and people are trying to depose you or have you forcibly removed from your position, you might be a really bad boss. 
  5. Someone quits live on the air – Arnetta the Moodsetta says it best. Click here for the audio.

Got something to add to the You might be a really bad boss list? Add it in the comment section after the jump.

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  • Grace

    LOL which one of your bosses did that? I know it wasn't you.

  • Queen Bea

    You might be a really bad boss if you are stilla nswering your emails on your blackberry on your way into surgery. I mean who the heck do you think you are?? Did you find the cure for cancer?? Listen, the dept won't collapse without you!! Get your surgery, heal, then come back to work when you are 100% there.

  • Guesswho

    You might be a really bad boss if your massive clip on ponytail makes more sense than you do.

  • Guesswho

    You might be a really bad boss if you get so drunk the night before the annual sales meeting that you are still drunk during your presentation the next day…the one you deliver while wearing a clown hat. And nose.

  • Grace

    You might be a really bad boss if you (who are not black) tell your employee, who happens to be black, that you think black people are cursed.

  • Grace

    LOL which one of your bosses did that? I know it wasn't you.

  • Queen Bea

    You might be a really bad boss if you are stilla nswering your emails on your blackberry on your way into surgery. I mean who the heck do you think you are?? Did you find the cure for cancer?? Listen, the dept won't collapse without you!! Get your surgery, heal, then come back to work when you are 100% there.

  • Grace

    LOL which one of your bosses did that? I know it wasn't you.

  • Queen Bea

    You might be a really bad boss if you are stilla nswering your emails on your blackberry on your way into surgery. I mean who the heck do you think you are?? Did you find the cure for cancer?? Listen, the dept won't collapse without you!! Get your surgery, heal, then come back to work when you are 100% there.

  • Grace

    LOL which one of your bosses did that? I know it wasn't you.

  • Queen Bea

    You might be a really bad boss if you are stilla nswering your emails on your blackberry on your way into surgery. I mean who the heck do you think you are?? Did you find the cure for cancer?? Listen, the dept won't collapse without you!! Get your surgery, heal, then come back to work when you are 100% there.

  • Guesswho

    You might be a really bad boss if your massive clip on ponytail makes more sense than you do.

  • Guesswho

    You might be a really bad boss if you get so drunk the night before the annual sales meeting that you are still drunk during your presentation the next day…the one you deliver while wearing a clown hat. And nose.

  • Grace

    You might be a really bad boss if you (who are not black) tell your employee, who happens to be black, that you think black people are cursed.

  • special k

    You might be a really bad boss if you call your employee in his/her hospital room immediately after having major surgery to ask a work-related question (all the while ignoring the anesthesia-induced grogginess).