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Be Nice To Bossy

Brazen Careerist hits a home run. Yesterday, the Brazen Careerist advised readers to be nice to crabby bosses. That didn't go over too well. But, last time I looked she had about 800 comments. Wow! Here's a good one. 

"Yeh, this lady is clueless about working with some psycho-ego tripping boss!! Let me give all of you some better advice. If you have a boss and their job has gone to their head and they thrive on making everyone else miserable, fight back!

"Talk with other people and see if the whole office feels that way; if they do, its time for combat. During lunch and breaks gather together, exclude the boss of course, and make whispers and jokes about your boss and laugh out loudly while looking their way.

"Make plans in front of your boss to get together outside of work and exclude the boss.
Phone the boss and then quickly hang up. This is especially great when the boss is walking towards their office and they start running to get the phone and then it hangs up.

"Bring the boss brownies and lace them with Ex-lax. Drop something rotten behind the boss's bookshelf -- it should stink up their office in no time.

"If all else fails, quit when a major project is due or at a busy time in the month without giving notice. Good Luck!"

BC is one of my favourite writers but her readers on Yahoo! are a wild bunch. A more unhappy crew you've never met. Funny too. The comments are hilarious and I could read them all day.

Fri, 02/09/2007 - 11:19pm

And all these years I thought that Canadians (I grew up in Winterpeg) were nice because minus 40 tends to keep out the riff raff.

Steven Rothberg, President and Founder
CollegeRecruiter.com career site

Fri, 02/09/2007 - 9:15pm

Ah ! That makes a lot of sense then ! :-)

Gautam

Fri, 02/09/2007 - 6:21pm

The Roti King chimes in. For your information, sir, I don't recruit Americans. All Canadian, all the time. That's the name of this channel. Seymour Martin Lipset, who died recently, proved that without a doubt, that Americans value freedom while Canadians value order. That's why the countries are different even though their origins are almost exactly the same. After the Revolution, the guys who didn't want freedom came up here to set up shop. That's why we see so many Americans whining about the boss. They can't stand authority, plain and simple. Whereas up here, we like people to tell us what to do. That's why we're so nice.

Fri, 02/09/2007 - 6:07pm

By the way, Animal, For all those cribbing about bad bosses, why don't you leave your email id and phone number, and ask them to mail their resumes to you, as a comment. That 864th comment will be the most useful !

Gautam

Co-Founder - The Imagence Partners

Blog: http://gauteg.blogspot.com

Fri, 02/09/2007 - 4:07pm

True, very true.

Fri, 02/09/2007 - 3:31pm

Hey, Rayg, it's easy to read 800 comments when every one is the exact same.

Fri, 02/09/2007 - 2:52pm

The comments on her column from last Thursday about not taking bad job hunting advice were pretty hilarious too. How you can get through 863 comments on a post however baffles me! http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/careerist/19128

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