Study Says 2 In 5 Bosses Lie

Freshly Exhumed writes to tell us about a Florida State University study of 700 employees indicating that nearly two of five bosses don't keep their word. The study will be published later this year. From the article: "The abusive boss has been well documented in movies ('Nine to Five'), television (Fox's 'My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss') and even the Internet. 'They say that employees don't leave their job or company, they leave their boss. We wanted to see if this is, in fact, true,' said Wayne Hochwarter, an associate professor of management in FSU's College of Business."

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[GungaDan]

nitpick:

GERD = (n) gastro-esophageal reflux disease

GIRD = (v) something you do to your loins before battle ;-)

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[Anonymous Coward]

A picture of Florida.

To lie is not always the worst

[Anonymous Coward]

My boss has bi-weekly meetings, bi-weekly one-on-ones, and bi-weekly status reports and then still doesn't seem to know what projects the people in the group are doing (although we are all well aware of the weather at various sites, thank you very much). A bit of lieing might help from time to time, you know, as a cover for other issues.

Everyone should keep their word and not lie

[Serveert]

Keeping your word will help everyone, boss or not. This goes beyond being a good boss and touches on enlightenment and just being a good person in general. If you are positive, enlightened and in general a good person, you can be a good anything, good spouse, good boyfriend/girlfriend, good boss, good employee, good .