The Boss

No no no if you are thinking this is Mario puzo’s next Sicilian mafia based novel then you can not be more wrong! As I am thinking to write it down, I have a faint picture drawn in my mind of the pointy haired boss From Scot Adam’s Dilbert’s principle.

Theme –yes you have guessed it right – it is dark humour. And now as every working individual knows that working under a boss is not a thing for the faint hearted person. I think quarter of the heart attacks are triggered by the boss. (There is no scientific truth behind it but I think research should be carried out and result will stun many people.)

Intention of the Boss. His two motives are-1st- To bring as much pain and suffering to his staff as much as possible without triggering him to leaving the company. And 2nd- to be as inefficient as possible without triggering the company to throw him out. So as you have seen, it is not very easy to be a great boss, it is a tight rope walk and it takes great skills to be able to do the above mentioned things properly.
His secondary work is to bring more budget into his projects as budget decides the winner amongst the boss’s war of superiority. His work is to conduct meetings to delay work as much as possible as to have more meetings, as more meetings mean being busier and generally seen as a sign of being an important boss who is delivering value to the company.

How to survive the boss
- the best way to survive a boss in my opinion is to become a boss or become a weasel as per Scott Adams. As a weasel u would be virtually boss proof and as a boss although your boss would be able to screw you, at least you can screw your staff. The ideal solution is to be a weasel in front of your boss and the real boss in front of your staff hi hi hi….
Other wise if you want to become a boring boss then try to understand the staff and try to fulfil their desire. and this is hard as employ’s are happy when they have free cakes (sorry I can’t include beer here) and snacks during meetings which means part of your budget spent and great pay raise without much work and they have mini teams to torture. But when you raise their salary without work, they leave the company for better pay package and better position.
And because your worker has left the company after getting better pay raise than other departments which have been able to keep their workers to stay with less pay package by being the first type boss, u shall look like a lousy performer and unable to manage people. So I think it has become clear now as daylight as to be like whom.

So best of luck and start now.

Foot note- If you like the piece then I can carry on further.