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It happened one day during one of our meetings. We’ll call this really bad boss, Napoleon. Napoleon said something during a meeting that was so ridiculous, so utterly stupid, that we all sat dazed, pretending pretending we hadn’t heard 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. It must be me, something must be wrong with me.”
So 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 cult 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 that we were in fact, dealing with someone who was more than a few fries short of a happy meal. 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. 
Leave your anonymous message for your really bad boss in the comment section below.
