Comments on: Why we secretly love the really bad bosses in the movies http://reallybadboss.com/2009/11/why-we-secretly-love-the-really-bad-bosses-in-the-movies/ Taking on the world, one really bad boss at a time. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:23:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Buck Hamilton http://reallybadboss.com/2009/11/why-we-secretly-love-the-really-bad-bosses-in-the-movies/comment-page-1/#comment-619 Buck Hamilton Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:12:10 +0000 http://reallybadboss.com/2009/11/why-we-secretly-love-the-really-bad-bosses-in-the-movies/#comment-619 Sure, I can agree with Spike TV's poll showing actress Meryl Streep's character Amanda Priestly (holier than thou, perhaps?) in the film The Devil Wears Prada as being one of the Top Ten Worst Bosses in motion picture history. She is not only the bully boss of all bully-bosses, she is in fact their queen. Gripped by her own low self-confidence anxieties, and surely threatened by young, upcoming talent, Amanda Priestly is indeed a subordinate's nightmare. And her own unhappiness -- faced with irreversible aging in a fashion world where youth is valued and her own failing marriage at home -- translates to a monster in the workplace. <br>But working for the Dark Knight's Bruce Wayne, aka Batman? Frankly, I don't see it; that is, I can't agree with the results as showing him as one of the worst bosses in film. Alfred -- Michael Caine's character -- is a butler and as such it's his job to be available at Batman's beck and call...at all hours of the night and, yes, to go and rescue him under perilous conditions in the seedy neighborhoods of Gotham City. It's a difficult concept to grasp in our egalitarian democracy, that of a butler, but in Victorian Britian it was a job taken very seriously by only a few who ever managed to qualify and surely Alfred, being an Englishman, understands his role and embraces it totally. Furthermore, his boss, Batman, is out saving the city from evil. Alfred isn't working for a low self-esteem bully boss.<br>Now, working for Amanda Priestly, that would be a problem....because you'd be expected to do a Butler's work when in fact you are not one. Sure, I can agree with Spike TV's poll showing actress Meryl Streep's character Amanda Priestly (holier than thou, perhaps?) in the film The Devil Wears Prada as being one of the Top Ten Worst Bosses in motion picture history. She is not only the bully boss of all bully-bosses, she is in fact their queen. Gripped by her own low self-confidence anxieties, and surely threatened by young, upcoming talent, Amanda Priestly is indeed a subordinate's nightmare. And her own unhappiness — faced with irreversible aging in a fashion world where youth is valued and her own failing marriage at home — translates to a monster in the workplace.
But working for the Dark Knight's Bruce Wayne, aka Batman? Frankly, I don't see it; that is, I can't agree with the results as showing him as one of the worst bosses in film. Alfred — Michael Caine's character — is a butler and as such it's his job to be available at Batman's beck and call…at all hours of the night and, yes, to go and rescue him under perilous conditions in the seedy neighborhoods of Gotham City. It's a difficult concept to grasp in our egalitarian democracy, that of a butler, but in Victorian Britian it was a job taken very seriously by only a few who ever managed to qualify and surely Alfred, being an Englishman, understands his role and embraces it totally. Furthermore, his boss, Batman, is out saving the city from evil. Alfred isn't working for a low self-esteem bully boss.
Now, working for Amanda Priestly, that would be a problem….because you'd be expected to do a Butler's work when in fact you are not one.

]]> By: Buck Hamilton http://reallybadboss.com/2009/11/why-we-secretly-love-the-really-bad-bosses-in-the-movies/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Buck Hamilton Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:12:10 +0000 http://reallybadboss.com/2009/11/why-we-secretly-love-the-really-bad-bosses-in-the-movies/#comment-285 Sure, I can agree with Spike TV's poll showing actress Meryl Streep's character Amanda Priestly (holier than thou, perhaps?) in the film The Devil Wears Prada as being one of the Top Ten Worst Bosses in motion picture history. She is not only the bully boss of all bully-bosses, she is in fact their queen. Gripped by her own low self-confidence anxieties, and surely threatened by young, upcoming talent, Amanda Priestly is indeed a subordinate's nightmare. And her own unhappiness -- faced with irreversible aging in a fashion world where youth is valued and her own failing marriage at home -- translates to a monster in the workplace. <br>But working for the Dark Knight's Bruce Wayne, aka Batman? Frankly, I don't see it; that is, I can't agree with the results as showing him as one of the worst bosses in film. Alfred -- Michael Caine's character -- is a butler and as such it's his job to be available at Batman's beck and call...at all hours of the night and, yes, to go and rescue him under perilous conditions in the seedy neighborhoods of Gotham City. It's a difficult concept to grasp in our egalitarian democracy, that of a butler, but in Victorian Britian it was a job taken very seriously by only a few who ever managed to qualify and surely Alfred, being an Englishman, understands his role and embraces it totally. Furthermore, his boss, Batman, is out saving the city from evil. Alfred isn't working for a low self-esteem bully boss.<br>Now, working for Amanda Priestly, that would be a problem....because you'd be expected to do a Butler's work when in fact you are not one. Sure, I can agree with Spike TV's poll showing actress Meryl Streep's character Amanda Priestly (holier than thou, perhaps?) in the film The Devil Wears Prada as being one of the Top Ten Worst Bosses in motion picture history. She is not only the bully boss of all bully-bosses, she is in fact their queen. Gripped by her own low self-confidence anxieties, and surely threatened by young, upcoming talent, Amanda Priestly is indeed a subordinate's nightmare. And her own unhappiness — faced with irreversible aging in a fashion world where youth is valued and her own failing marriage at home — translates to a monster in the workplace.
But working for the Dark Knight's Bruce Wayne, aka Batman? Frankly, I don't see it; that is, I can't agree with the results as showing him as one of the worst bosses in film. Alfred — Michael Caine's character — is a butler and as such it's his job to be available at Batman's beck and call…at all hours of the night and, yes, to go and rescue him under perilous conditions in the seedy neighborhoods of Gotham City. It's a difficult concept to grasp in our egalitarian democracy, that of a butler, but in Victorian Britian it was a job taken very seriously by only a few who ever managed to qualify and surely Alfred, being an Englishman, understands his role and embraces it totally. Furthermore, his boss, Batman, is out saving the city from evil. Alfred isn't working for a low self-esteem bully boss.
Now, working for Amanda Priestly, that would be a problem….because you'd be expected to do a Butler's work when in fact you are not one.

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