Do you hate your boss? Have you ever hated a boss?

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Anyone hate your boss or former boss? What did they do?

Honestly can't say that I have outside of the PM I work under right now. This one is a self-righteous douche, but daddy needs a paycheck so I make sure to live by "know your role and shut your hole" for now. But there's no wonder there's so much turnover in this office. Let's just say I'm looking for my own way out because to me the writing is on the wall about this firm due to him.

one of my old ones yeah, she was terrible. Micro-managed everyone, and hated me in particular to the point that I had no support at all and second-guessed myself constantly. However, she ended up getting fired (even though I didn't complain about her to anyone). Interesting stuff.

I despised first CFO - having worked with him, he was just a bad person. Complete and total douchebag.

First president was also insane.

Another CEO of a company I worked for just seemed very corporate-ish. Gave us plastic gold coins from dollar store for Christmas. Was extremely out of touch.

Hated my 1st VP. Micromanagement and kept playing the blame game. He always pretended to understand our department's workflow but I don't think he ever fully grasped it based off the poor decisions he made. His replacement was a lot better, more hands off and actually drastically improved our team's operations / morale. 

The Director he hired stayed on board and was way more clueless but knew how to 'kiss ass' and didn't get replaced. She may be the dumbest manager I ever worked with. The previous Director to the one he hired was amazing. Helped the company grow rapidly and there are a handful of executives who personally know him. He left for better pay but some of the executives did offer him a great pay/title bump if he ever plans to come back.

The VP I hated did get fired / or quit amicably and I couldn't stop smiling that day (thankfully was WFH). One of our company's C-suite wasn't a huge fan of him and she met with him. The end of the week, he notified our department he was 'leaving.'

current manager (vp of finance) is an anxious puppy. big yes-man to the CFO and makes our lives so much worse. they lack any confidence and make every little thing a fire drill and get in the way of our productivity. definitely a high-functioning analyst, but not cut out for managing people.

Ended up hating many of my bosses. Saying it this way, because I liked them a lot during the hiring process, they just turned out to be idiots.
But, the good thing is that your boss is most likely not one of your stakeholders in day-to-day business. He is just the administrative line manager to you.  He can make life difficult for you at important moments. So while you don't have to like him like a buddy, a neutral relationship and good work performance should be enough.

Yeah, the person I currently work under is a micro manager and will ask you to handle something and then randomly insert themselves into the process asking questions that you'd already covered/resolved. They were hired into a role above their experience/capabilities and it shows.

Personality is less important (as long as they are not completely anti social) but micromanaging is the biggest red flag for me. I had bosses I liked personally and enjoyed chatting with them but they were insane micromanagers and ended up hating them. Made me feel like I was in 5th grade again.

My philosophy is hire smart people and trust them to do their jobs but be there to support them if they have questions or are struggling.

Just googled this randomly typing wallstreetoasis and boom, Isaiah of course has a timely thread haha

I think I really do hate my boss. The hours are frankly not bad, but in the AM world the Analyst needs to actually do the work vs. throwing 90% of it onto the associate (not like in banking where the VP needs to analyst work -- maybe the better comparison to banking is to the Associate who needs to do similar work to that of the analyst). It blows because I've been now doing this for close to 6yrs and I get 100% of the grunt work and then most of the Analyst work now too while he just jacks off doing meetings and reading. Wtf?

At first I welcomed the work because it was an opportunity to learn but at this point I know how to do it all and I'm just being underpaid to do Analyst level work while getting like 50-60% of the comp. What makes this worse is that I get reamed if something isn't up to his standards (and he frequently mentions that according to him, basically half or more of the analysts aren't doing quality work -- which is code for they're not doing the work his way) so that's just further demotivating. 

So I guess a mild dislike has now turned into honestly some hate which is obviously not healthy. Market conditions are pretty poor right now so I'm really hoping for the soft landing scenario and for things to pick up again next year -- I want to either get promoted next year or gtfo to another decent shop. I'm just trapped though until then. Thing is, I wouldn't even mind too much if I was more junior but at this point I'm just hitting a burning out point 

I hate certain things my boss does, but I do not hate my boss. I think he's one of the best I've had and really enjoy getting to work with him. Just... goddamn some of the stuff that ultimately doesn't matter a ton is annoying lol

For once I don't despise the people I work for, which is nice.  I've had some doozies. 

One organization I had a boss who had a falling out with his family to the point where he didn't go to a parent's funeral.  He literally was married to his job and would proudly work work work work constantly.  He made traction in his career, but is making $350k+/year with zero time or people to spend it with worthwhile!? 

Another organization I was at had some very crooked leadership who'd hire their crony friends.  The person I reported to was about as unethical as you could get.  Slimy in business and personal dealings.  He, a married dude with kids, made a blatant detailed comment before a big division meeting that Chris Rock didn't know WTF he was talking about as he did everything he wanted in the champagne room.  I also heard him on the phone one time barking at his accountant about an IRS audit on how the partner WILL make whatever scheme work.  I left pretty quick.  If his home, personal, and business dealings were that crooked publicly, who knows what else was going on.  I did see his name pop up in a business periodical after I left about a small business loan scam/fraud or something.  Rest assured I didn't pay the periodical to read on.

And lastly, I was at an organization with a leader who was convicted of embezzling funds.  His former assistant texted me in a panic one day that she was served and was to show up in court.  We spoke on the phone and then I immediately got a hold of my attorney as I didn't know where I could guilty with association.  After laying out the facts, he told me to breath and take a drink.  I never was summoned for anything further and I never spoke to said leader ever again.  Crazy thing is he's still in the game as a consultant and has a big following on a social media account.