My Hero

My Hero is tall and strong.
My Hero is smart and beautiful
My Hero is tough as nail
My Hero is deep and caring
My Hero is honest and twisted
My Hero is sloppy and funny

My Hero is not my boss
My Hero is the boss of me

My Hero is not my leader
My Hero Leads me

My Hero is not my mentor
My Hero thought me about life

My Hero doesn’t command me
My Hero has my beg and call

She ensnares me.

Bossing for Dummies

My Boss is an asshole!

Not because he is a bad man, but because early in his bossing career he realized that he couldn’t please everyone; he understood that every decision he makes is bound to piss off someone. He still makes the tough decisions. That makes him an asshole but it also makes him a good boss.

There is nothing worse than a boss who can’t make the tough decisions because they are going to piss a few people off. These types of bosses usually care more about being popular than they do about being successful. Their fear of upsetting people makes them take no action at all. They just sit there, wishing the problem will address itself and go away on its own. Most often they will work extra hard at addressing the symptoms of the issue (Which is always easier) rather than making a tough decisions

Being a good boss and being popular with your entire team is almost impossible. It would require having such a mature, understanding, positive and effective team that it just never happens.

My boss is an asshole but he is also a good boss. He pisses me off sometimes, but he also shows incredible insight most of the time.

I, on the other hand, am a terrible boss. I procrastinate, get other people to do my work for me, never make a decision, try to avoid conflict, kiss asses, and most importantly I always have someone else to blame for my mistakes. I know that makes me a bad boss, but it also makes me successful in my career. So, here are the 10 rules at being a boss:

1. Be unpopular with some people in your team
2. Always have someone handy to take the blame for your mistakes
3. Be decisive. Make the tough decisions and to hell with people’s feelings
4. Kiss asses. Preferably that of your boss (If your boss is of the opposite sex, you can try it literally)
5. In the words of Jack Nicholson: “You haven’t lived till you’ve gotten a blow job from a superior officer”
6. Be feared, be respected
7. Empower other people to do for you what is tiring, repetitive or boring
8. Pretend to Listen to your team. Occasionally give them satisfaction on a matter of no real consequence
9. Have, at least one female with large boobs in your team. This proves helpful during those long, boring meetings
10. Be true to yourself

My Work. My Life

The room was dark, I was out of breath, I was sweaty and concentrating hard on my work. It was tedious, hard core work. Repetitive, exhausting and only partially fulfilling. My phone rang, a name flashed on the screen, I threw a glance at the phone while continuing my hard work. It was my boss. My mind was finding it hard to concentrate on the call. Nevertheless, it was my boss. I weight in the pros and cons of answering. Ignoring the call meant my boss would think I was not available 24/7. Answering would interrupt what I was doing and disturb my concentration. I pondered as I went about with my task at hand. Could it be about tomorrow’s budget meeting? Did he want to reduce my quota? Was I getting the new head count approval. Of course, letting my mind wonder this way was delaying my reaching conclusion on my current task.

Still it was my boss, I’d better answer… By now the flashing light was the only bright thing in the room, work was not really on my mind anymore and that lead to a softening of my concentration… I may as well answer…

“Allo, Yes Boss how can I help you? No, you are not interrupting…”

As I uttered these words to my boss, my woman said: “If you answer the phone before I come, I’ll fucking kill you!”

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With email, mobile phones, sms and what not, people have stopped living. They only work. Life itself has become work. Work has become life.

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