Do You Like Your Boss?

[Ubiquitous Duck]

Pretty simple question!

Do you like or get along with your boss or direct/line manager?

If you aren't in employment, perhaps substitute in a teacher, if you are a student, or someone considered to be a 'boss' in your life (maybe a parent?).

I have tended to like the few bosses that I have had in my brief experience in employment. There is always a nagging, cynical side of my brain that says: 'they are just being nice because it's a work relationship, professional and gets the most work out of you' - so it's like a tactic, rather than them liking you. But I realise this is a bit pessimistic and overthinking the situation.

I mostly have found that I have gotten on with my managers, all 4 of them.

The contrast is that someone I know has an awful relationship with their boss, which has caused their working life to be very difficult, so much so that it affects their personal life heavily. Without going into personal detail, this relationship has caused a lot of grief. It seems strange to me for such a relationship to have such a stranglehold on someone's life, but it is evidently possible.

So I'm wondering what everyone else's experiences are with these relationships.

Question:

What are your experiences with bosses, past or present? And, have they affected your personal life to a significant amount?

*Can be serious or whimsical responses*

 

[Zhukov]

Actually, yes. Surprisingly enough.

I get along with both my immediate superior and my boss.

I don't mind if they're just being friendly for the sake of keeping the workplace running. That's to be expected. Hell, that's half the reason I'm friendly with them. (The other half being that I like having the ability to buy food and make rent.)

Come to think of it, I've gotton along alright with all my employers. Except one. Even then we managed to reach a slightly prickly truce.

 

[Guffe]

Simple: Yes!

I work for the state, and I just started so I am very low in the rank (like low low)
So my chief is actually one of my countrys highest members of the ministry.

But my closest chief/leader/whatever, I like her a lot, she's a good boss.

 

[Albino Boo]

My boss is great. He is the most understanding, warm, funny, kind and snappist dresser one could ever work with. Thats what my minions employees tell me anyway. Thats right I own the company so I am the boss of bosses. The main reason why I am run my company is because I couldn't stand all the office politics and I have the autowin statement for any work argument, you're fired.

 

[Barbas]

I've had a few, and I've liked all of them at least a little. My current employer is someone I would describe as fair. It is an informal place and the things expected of me there are things I am quite happy to do. My boss is one of my co-workers, we all muck in and the help that we lend one-another is appreciated because it can make a considerable difference.

 

[Ubiquitous Duck]

My boss is great. He is the most understanding, warm, funny, kind and snappist dresser one could ever work with. Thats what my minions employees tell me anyway. Thats right I own the company so I am the boss of bosses. The main reason why I am run my company is because I couldn't stand all the office politics and I have the autowin statement for any work argument, you're fired.

Ahhh so the miniature giant space hamster is running a company by creating a culture of fear?

I like it.

Do you also have a police-state-esque rule of hand?

 

[omega 616]

Funnily enough, the guy I have right now is the biggest prick I have ever met by a LOOONG shot!

I am an apprentice chef, I have been at the job in total about a month and a half. I have NEVER been shown how to make anything! So I am constantly asking for jobs from people who have been there longer.

The way it is meant to work is, I have 1 day to go to college and learn and the rest of the time I am learning on the job. The job is short staffed so I can't go and learn ... but I can't be effective in the kitchen if I can't learn. I am not the fastest worker and I can't do two things at once, due to lack of experience and knowledge (how do you make a curry? Timings etc) but myself and a girl who has been there 6 months are expected to make a vegetarian dish, a chicken dish, a meat dish, a soup, a fish dish and 2 vegetables a day from 8:30 to about 11:45.

The chef is also a total Gordon Ramsay, talks to everybody like total shit. Got rid of two students already while they were filing complaints against him, another girl I work with is filing complaints against him and I am looking for somewhere else to work.

I am working as fast as I can, asking constantly if I can do two things at once and what do I get at the end of the day when he gathers everybody round? "you two (me and this girl) are too slow, walking round like zombies! If things don't improve you're both gone!" and he says it constantly!

I know how it sounds and what you're thinking, "you're actually just slacking off" ... I am 25, I've been doing unpaid work basically since leaving school, I am finally off benefits and earning, finally standing on my own two feet. I want to work like a drowning man wants to breathe!

Even during all those years doing unpaid work, I NEVER took a sick day, I was NEVER late but this chef makes me want to phone in sick till I find a new place.

 

[Longing]

I like my department boss, but hate my 'boss' boss.

it's fine, i see her like twice a month anyways.

 

[Albino Boo]

My boss is great. He is the most understanding, warm, funny, kind and snappist dresser one could ever work with. Thats what my minions employees tell me anyway. Thats right I own the company so I am the boss of bosses. The main reason why I am run my company is because I couldn't stand all the office politics and I have the autowin statement for any work argument, you're fired.

Ahhh so the miniature giant space hamster is running a company by creating a culture of fear?

I like it.

Do you also have a police-state-esque rule of hand?

You didn't believe all that butt kicking for goodness malarky did you. Poor deluded Minsc was just my pawn on my way to being the new god of murder. Its not so much fear but more mortal terror of me. They first get sucked by my cute expression and when they have signed the contract its MUHHAHAH and the I reveal my true nature as the miniature giant space hamster God of Murder.

 

[Tiger King]

my boss is great! he has really supported me and a few other people I work with.
unfortunately he is kicking on and he can't really handle the business anymore.

he is one of those old school bosses where ability and drive come first in his employees.
I feel sad that he is getting old and will have to move on

 

[Vausch]

I like my immediate boss, the shift manager.

The department manager I don't have problems with, save for a little bit of obnoxiousness in that she doesn't want us to walk on pallets (I work in a warehouse) despite there being very little room to walk and not doing so puts us at more risk to break an ankle.

Manager of the store: Don't mind when they're not around. When they are, they tend to do that thing where they try to tell you how to do your job despite never working it once.

 

[xmbts]

I have about 10 bosses directly over me. And I get along with all of them, my old jobs however they were all rancid pricks.

Went to work at 5 AM on a 20 degree day, got out of my car with my hands in my pockets to have my boss scream at me because he thinks it makes it look like I'm not working, despite me having literally just gotten out of my car before the job.

 

[SwimmingRock]

Fo' sho'. I have a different boss during the week and on weekends, but I get along well with both. They also really like me, are really nice to me, tell me behind-the-scenes things I shouldn't know and sometimes let me slack off from doing any actual work to just chat with them. Also, the weekday boss once came in on a saturday, because she was worried about me (I'd been looking sickly for several days). I honestly care more about doing well for my boss(es) than for the company as a whole. When the weekday boss retires, I'll probably quit.

 

[Blow_Pop]

my boss is technically my brother according to the state of california.....so not particularly most days. Especially when we start arguing because he won't do something he HAS to do (like do his stupid blood test for his doctor so that the doctor can make sure his cholesterol and everything is still ok).

I've had really shitty bosses in the past and really good ones and mediocre ones.

Then again, I do get to make my own schedule within the hour parameters of what the state will pay me so that's good I guess?

 

[kasperbbs]

I like my current boss, he never gives me any crap about work and simply acts like a decent human being. Hes a saint compared to a couple of douchebags that i had to work for before. One of them used to yell at everyone and the next moment he would praise us, perhaps he wasn't really that bad of a guy, but it was hard ignoring some of the shit that came out from his mouth, one second he would call a guy a retard and the next he would praise him for a job well done.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

I have two bosses that work directly above me. They're both pretty nice and I get along with them but I don't really like them. They're both lazy and incompetent. It sucks working with the one because he spends his time sitting on his ass moving as slowly as possible and paying more attention to his phone than the customers or coworkers. And he takes about 4 breaks a day, each one about 40 minutes or more.
The one above him admittedly does more work with customers and coworkers but he never fires anyone and hires underaged kids of his friends when there aren't enough hours to go around for people that have been there for years.

And both of them keep us understaffed saying "hours are tight" even though they aren't, they just get bonuses by keeping hours as low as possible.
They make the pretty easy job harder and more annoying than they should be.

Good guys, crappy managers.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I have gotten along with all of my managers and deputies except for two, I suppose it's beast to lay it out like this

Spoiler: 1st manager and deputy manager (when I first started working for them).

They were both great and nice people to work with. While the manager was old but she was someone who can make you laugh (making jokes) and the deputy manager was a chilled out dude.
Sure they had a serious side which the manager had to tell me something more than once (like why I can't have that day off or when I wanted a break) but back then I was still inexperienced. The deputy manager was chilled enough that he wasn't angry with me for making a mistake that he got told off from the area manager.
Sadly the manager had passed away from cancer (may she rest in peace) and the deputy manager left for another job.

Spoiler: 2nd Deputy manager

He took over when the first left and was in position when the manager passed away.
He's a year younger than me and yet he is the deputy manager which I'm ok with since I assume he must of study business management during High School and continue after that.
I got along with him quite well cos we share similar interest toward video games (we chatted more than once on certain games) and he was more honest at the job (openly admit when it was boring as in nothing to do). Honestly I want him on my Facebook friendlist.
Sadly he was transfered to another store and then my work life became hell when the other manager and deputy manager transfered to the store I worked in.

Spoiler: 2nd Manager and 3rd deputy manager

To simply put it, there were arses to work with. The manager was lazy, forgetful, get her priority wrong and blame others when it was her own fault. She is also a total ***** for intentially blocking any one of us from getting a transfer to the nearby new store by lying to the higher up that nobody wanted to be transfed.
The deputy was pretty much her pet lapdog and he was also worse to worked with. The deputy was always grumpy (like something stuck in his ass) and was late more than once (he didnt show up for work for two weeks since my holiday time with my bro was cut short cos of him).
The two simply made all of us miserable especially this newest co worker. What made the two the worse is that those two had no passion for their job at all (I mean you got to have something to liked about going to work). I pretty much had to put up the two for nearly a year which it finally paid off months ago.
The deputy finally got sacked which I believed it was cos they finally caught him stealing cash from the safe (sometime money goes missing when he's around so they install new cameras) and the manager had to be transfered back to the store she was in.

Spoiler: 3rd Manager and 4th deputy manager (current)

The third manager was the keyholder back when I was working with the first manager and he was working there years before I came.
Ok officially he isn't made manager but he is in position of manager . Needless to say I get along with him just find due to knowing each other for so long. He is pretty much has the teaching of the first manager (she did taught him how things work) as he can tell people off without resulting to scorning. The fourth deputy manager is just for covered when the manager and the new keyholder (knows how to oepn and close the door but is not in manager position) can't work on that day.
Suprisingly she is the 2nd deputy manager girlfriend, I mean I knew her when the 2nd deputy was around but I didn't know she took that position until I saw her again. Just like the 2nd deputy, I get along with her the most as again we share similar interests (we spend a day at work talking Pokemon!).
Sadly he won't keep that position for long (he started off great but he lack the intiative to plan ahead) since the area manager is not please with his performance at the store.

Needless to say they are all great managers to work for and I worked my hardest to not let them down (well except for the two I hated as I didn't give a toss working my hardest as I wanted those two to get intro trouble with the higher ups).

 

[Kricketz]

I consider myself lucky that out of the five job's I've had, I've only had problems with one.

I also worked an internship once where one of my bosses was an extreme prick to me. It could have been because I was an "intern" but I highly doubt it. Even some of the employees were like "Wow she is a prick to you". Not their words exactly but you get the drift...

As for my current boss, we get along great. Actually, I would go as far as to say she's the best boss I've had. She says she sees a lot of potential in me, which is funny because on most days I'm just trying to not get fired.

 

[shootthebandit]

I report to so many people at work that it means I can usually go to the one I like the most if I have an issue. Everyone in my work is a good laugh and all the management and office people are ok (theres always exceptions but I tend to ignore them)

The problem with my work is that there are too many office people and they all deal with specific things and finding the right person can be awkward. I work in maintenance and there are genuinely more people in the office and management than there are people with spanners. Too many chiefs and not enough indians

 

[Elvis Starburst]

My boss is awesome. Hell, the entire manager staff is awesome. I can joke and laugh and talk gaming with him, and it's epic~ We even jokingly insult eachother when the moment is right. We get along pretty well!