Love Your Job—but Hate Your Boss?
During these tough economic and jobless times, most of us don't have the real option of quitting when we hate our bosses. We need the job.
Here are three things anyone can do in this situation:
1. Write a journal about it. One woman would journal what happened whenever her boss upset her. Rereading the entries at a later, less emotional time helped her gain perspective.
2. Analyze your own self. How's your attitude, your own work habits? Can you improve the situation by doing better yourself?
Bosses happen to like those employees who do better, more than those who don't. In other words, make your boss love your performance.
3. If you do Nos. 1 and 2, and you still hate the boss, then you have two remaining options—discuss it openly with him (first), then with HR, and/or prepare your exit strategy.
(from G.L. Hoffman-- a serial entrepreneur and venture investor/operator/incubator/mentor. Two of his companies have traveled the entire success path from the garage to IPO. Currently, he is chairman of JobDig, and his blog can be found at WhatWouldDadSay.com or at JobDig.com.)
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