What the blogosphere’s saying about bosses this week…

• “In the end, turnover is mostly a manager issue.” I couldn’t agree more. On the site flameofhope.net, a guest post by Dr. Zimmerman falls in line with what we’ve been saying all along, bad bosses are bad for business. Check out Zimmerman’s insights here.

• Call center staff in Britain say their bad bosses are treating them like caged animals – battery hens to be exact. The Mirror’s report found that some staff were allowed only eight minutes for bathroom breaks during an eight-hour shift. Read the whole story here.

• I called it. Remember Debrahlee Lorenzana, the woman who was way too sexy and distracting to keep her job with Citibank. I smelled a reality star wannabe and it’s begun! The Frisky’s reporting that Ms. Lorenzana is now starring in a promotional video for Long Island Plastic Surgical Group in which she touts her second breast augmentation surgery and says she wants to be “tits on a stick.” Wonderful – she’s just set sexual harassment causes back a decade. Read the full story here.

• Over at the Worcester Business Journal, the article Boss Management 101 offers advice on ways to make working with a bad boss less stressful. Some of the tips include; identifying your boss’ management style and asking the right questions. Read the full article here.

What the blogosphere’s saying about dealing with bad bosses this week…

• Your diploma is a passport to nothing – So begins an essay in a Canadian Newspaper by Rick Spence. Caitlin Kelly follows up with Eight Lessons That Might Help – a lesson for new college grads. I’m sure if I’d had some of this knowledge before accepting my first job, I wouldn’t have ended up with the horribly bad boss I suffered under for the first two years of my career.

• Employers, don’t take your employees for granted! And now there are even more reasons not to. On his blog SandersSays, Tim Sanders offers great insight into why employers should treat their employees with more respect. My favorite quote from the site – “By the time you realize your company’s culture stinks, it will be too late to turn the ship around, and when the economy totally improves – you are toast.”

• Over at The Working Girl blog, the working girl tackles the age old question about who makes a better boss – male or female. Check out her honest observations here.

• Over at Brainzooming, Mike Brown shares 5 things you can learn from a bad boss. No, intense hatred isn’t one of them. But he does point out that you can learn what a boss shouldn’t do, and I completely agree with that.

What the Blogosphere’s saying about bad bosses this week…

Over at the Non-working monkey, the non-working monkey himself has a “strong desire to do very little (unless it’s something you really like doing) and be answerable to no-one, whilst understanding that working is necessary in order to get money, which we need to live.” One of the things he does well is create cute little movies, with cute little characters acting out skits about really bad bosses. You can check them out here.

eBossWatch is reporting that Jackie Chan’s former assistant says Mr. Chan and his wife Joan Lin are really bad bosses.

On Bullies Be Gone, Ben Leichtling provides some tips on stopping bullies at work, specifically the control freaks.

The New York Times blog reviews workplace reviews – you know those horrible things we’re forced to undergo quarterly or annually that are often meaningless? Well we’re not the only ones who think so.

The Literary Edition – This week we’re taking a look at a few of the books on the market that focus on bad bosses and how to survive them…

• A Survival Guide for Working With Bad Bosses: Dealing With Bullies, Idiots, Back-stabbers, And Other Managers from Hell by Gini Graham Scott, PhD. The title says it all – Scott outlines several strategies for dealing with the bad bosses who’ve become the banes of our existence.

• Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots: 201 Smart Ways to Handle the Toughest People Issues by Vicky Oliver. Oliver takes on more than bosses in this book. She provides over 200 ways to deal with your garden variety office idiot.

• How to work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive…Without Killing your Boss by John Hoover. After years of unsuccessfully trying to change I-bosses (idiot bosses) Hoover decided to bring the knowledge directly to the poor souls who have to work for them.

• When Smart People Work for Dumb Bosses: How to survive in a Crazy and Dysfunctional Workplace by William & Kathleen Lundin. If you notice a pattern here, it’s because there is one. Bad bosses are often dumb bosses, and the Lundins offer strategies for coping with the dumbest of them.

What the blogosphere’s saying about bad bosses this week…

• New York Post columnist Cindy Adams thinks that female victims of workplace sexual harassment should just deal with it, bad bosses and all…

• Quite a few people at the Huff Post disagree.

• Yahoo Shine suggests 5 ways to make work better when you hate your job and your bad boss. No, not working isn’t one of the suggestions.

• So, your boss is a jerk, so what? Over at  Career Woman, Inc., Lisa Quast answers that question by introducing you to four fictional bad boss types.

• When mean girls go to work – Ella L.J, Edmonndson Bell, Ph.D examines views on women bosses and notes women, especially white women, are sometimes stereotyped as super competitive, while black women, are often labeled as “angry.”

What the blogosphere’s saying about bosses this week…

• The Washington Post is featuring a series which is a collaboration between The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service and The Washington Post’s On Leadership site.  This week’s topic is How to deal with a bad boss, and it addresses issues with bad bosses in federal government. Let’s hope the series is required reading for all government managers.

• Over at mademan.com, Mia Faulkner offers tips on How To Manage A Bad Boss including, not taking bad boss behavior personally and documenting the behavior.

• 13% of workers say their boss is lazy. 21% say their bosses unfairly take credit for their work. And 25% say their bosses don’t provide enough guidance. Check out a few more stats and a neat slide-show on How to Deal with a Bad Boss at Baseline Magazine. Their best tip? You don’t have to be a suck up to build a better relationship with your bad boss.

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What the blogosphere’s saying about bad bosses this week…

• For your viewing pleasure – Jay Leno’s Jaywalk – Bad Boss edition
• Proving bosses are just as bad across the pond – half of Brits would take a pay cut to work for a better manager. The study, conducted by Chartered Management Institute, surveyed over 85,000 employees and bosses. According to management specialists “Britain is suffering because our managers are simply not up to scratch.” Now that’s something we have in common with the Brits. Read the full story here.
• Bad bosses are bad for business – Over at the Post-Tribune, Leanne Hoagland-Smith explains why that’s the case and why bad boss behavior is unlikely to change unless we make some changes to the way we train managers. According to Hoagland-Smith, “The K-16 educational experience fails to provide the necessary knowledge, attitudes, skills and habits required in the real business word.” If you ask us, professional business schools aren’t doing a bang up job either.
• Got the bad boss blues? Forbes Woman helps you get over you bad boss blues – One great tip, get over your anger and resentment. The quicker you do that, the better the head-space you’ll find yourself in.
• What do Ben Stiller, Marc Cherry and James Cameron have in common? According to The Frisky, they’re on the list of the 10 worst bosses in Hollywood. How bad are they? James Cameron reportedly nail-gunned cell phones to the walls during the filming of Avatar when they rang at inappropriate times.