principles of boss-bossee interaction

cutoffs:

1. You never go around your boss.
2. You tell your boss what he wants to hear, even when your boss claims that he wants dissenting views.
3. If your boss wants something dropped, you drop it.
4. You are sensitive to your boss’s wishes so that you anticipate what he wants; you don’t force him, in other words, to act as a boss.
5. Your job is not to report something that your boss does not want reported, but rather to cover it up. You do your job and you keep your mouth shut.

4 like a boss

yes yes let's have plenty of that as well

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these are practically soviet

voted 3 because veto power is the only kind of workplace power i've ever been relieved to have

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never go around

got in trouble with my last boss for #1 and #4

It really depends on the kind of work. I'd be inclined to say 3, because a good boss should know when its really necessary to pull the "drop everything and do this" request (ie - not all the damn time for no reason). #4 sounds like a bit of a pipe dream tbrh. If you dont wanna have to act like a boss and tell ppl what to do, wtf u doing the job for.

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#4 is part of being a good admin, the rest are signs of a bad power dynamic and a potentially dysfunctional relationship where you can't do your job and they aren't doing theirs.

I think the key to #1 is changing it to "Never go around your boss that they know of" tbh.

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You never go around your boss.

read this as 'you hold it in when you're in the bathroom at the same time'