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."

Comments

Re:correction

[jesdynf]

Drop dead.

If I say a thing, then my name is upon it, and it is TRUE to the best of my knowledge, and I have made an effort well beyond good-faith to know this. My employees may rely on such things. If by some mischance it was not true, then I either go make it true or inform everyone affected by my error. If it was made untrue, then I'm by-God gonna find out why.

I do not have to lie, not through omission, not through commission, and not through ignorance.

You wanna say almost all meatbags, given power, are tyrannical, deceptive little bastards? Fine by me. But not all of 'em -- or not this one.

Re:correction

[jesdynf]

Oh, I'm not gonna tell you it's not common -- I was shocked it only came in at forty. I just took issue with 100%, is all.

I don't even understand what the damn problem is. It's not hard to keep straight. There are things I can do and things I can get permission to do. I will either do or not do things, and I will either be allowed or not be allowed to do things.

I'm not invulnerable to error -- if I say I will do something, I might well not do it. But when challenged, I'll acknowledge my failure and spend effort commensurate to the speaker's perception of the issue's importance to resolve it.

Management is not a hard problem. You've got work to be done and guys who want to get work done. In fact, they even take pride in getting work done. How hard to do you have to work to screw this up?

Re:correction

[SatanicPuppy]

I don't know, you're pretty adversarial, and you clearly take a lot of stuff personally, and when you take it personally, you immediately get emotionally involved. You don't pick your fights very well, and you're quick to drop to verbal abuse when someone disagrees. You're quick to assert your "rights" which always rubs me the wrong way...People who do that keep careful track of what they're "owed" which makes everything brutally tit for tat.

Having worked for that type, they're fine when they're pointed at someone else, but they suck when they're pointed at you, and they don't take unexpected things in stride, so when something breaks and there is fault to be found they'll jump your shit in the name of "motivation".

In short, you sound like a short-sighted jackass who can't bear criticism, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to work under you.

So, how is my dad these days?

[StressGuy]

Sorry....low hanging fruit

Re:grievance committees

[cain]

So you implicitly threatened him with violence? Are we supposed to think this is a good strategy for dealing with cow-orkers?