The majority of Idiot Bosses behave like children. Typical behavior of the Idiot Boss in his home environment tends to be in the form of the following:
Questions like:
- "Where is the information I forgot to demand yesterday?"
- "Why didn't you act on the idea I had in my head before I tried to sort it out myself?"
- "Why did you leave the office at midnight without sorting out the issues above?
My interpretation of this behavior goes like this:
- "Where is the toy I've just seen on TV, I want, I want, I want!"
- "Mummy, I just poohed my pants!"
- "Mummy, I just wet the bed!"
- "You can have the information for Christmas, but only if you're a very good boy."
- "You've made a mess have you? Let me sort it out for you."
- "Mummy wants her P45 please."
*I feel qualified to advise because I've had several of them.
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The main difference is that you can't get your boss off your back by giving them a lollipop and asking them to play quietly in another room for a couple of hours. I know, because I've tried...
Hee hee!! I now have a vision of my boss doing just that!
My work version of the lollipop trick is to give the Idiot Bosses a very complicated bit of information (that they should) but don't understand.*
Cue boss retreating to office to read said information, usually for some time.**
Unfortunately my current boss knows far, far more than I do. So I don't get away with this kind of behaviour any more. Which is quite gutting really.
*This will only work with Idiot Bosses, who don't actually know very much but like to appear that they do.
**Sometimes, months would pass before the data was mentioned again.
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