re: Worst Boss You Ever Had?

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What club in the Fort?

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It was called Fargo's at one point, then The Rock. 2001-02 time frame.

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I was just thinking of three 10th Mountain Division Commanders; Hagenbeck, Austin, and Freakley.

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Was a company commander in the DISCOM (Pogue Valley Road) 95-97.

MG Burnette was the division commander while I was there. Hagenbeck was the chief of staff at the time. My biggest issue was a sociopath for my battalion commander. Most toxic leader I have ever served with in over 35 years in uniform. Any time I wondered what to do as a senior leader (battalion command, two brigade commands and chief of staff of a medical command) was to do the exact opposite of what he had done.

Climb to Glory brother!

Micro management. Boss needed extra ordinary control.

Why? Clearly did not see their leadership to develop and grow their people. Rather, saw delivery as paramount. One precluded the other.

Fast forward. Very best boss ever had led by empowering, coaching, and mentoring. Recognized that developing their team to deliver was FAR more effective than being overly focused on the delivery itself.

One is less selfish and the difference.

Key learning:
Being a leader and leadership can be very different things.

Any radio GM with the name Randy should immediately be beaten unconscious. Not sure what it is about that name.

How exactly does he intimidate you?

Had a woman that would dress you down in a staff meeting or in the hall I front of everyone. To her credit, she gave us a paid vacation day when my daughter was born, but she would talk shite every other day. Needless to say, they aren’t in business anymore

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TIGER2

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Current one. Only person he calls by their last name. The rest of the team gets greeted by their first name.

This guy is ex military so I'm not sure if this is a sign of respect or disdain.

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After about a month a few were pulled from developers/programmers and made Project managers, Manager of the web development team so that he could cover their deficiencies.

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Ah, project managers that come from failed programmer stock, my favorite.

Which reminds me of my worst boss who in a previous life was a project manager. Which I wonder where he learned a lot of it because I think the most he did was on Excel. The man didn't really take morale or other things into account. My favorite being the one-on-one sessions we did with him where you watched him working on something for 15 minutes (probably another spreadsheet, who fricking knows) while you're waiting to get this over with as this a-hole makes empty apologies. I say that because it happened every time as if my time or anyone elses time didn't matter only dickhead. Oh you got family? frick you and your family because I need to show like I give a shite to my boss. It's even better when he wants to hold these near the end of the day because he's "busy".

The man was a poster child for a stereotypical middle manager who reached the zenith of the Peter Principle. Then add to that the micromanagement as an attempt to look like we're supervising. I took a training class he was well aware I was attending and halfway through day one is wondering where I'm at because I was showing as offline on our messenger app.

There are a few more things I could go on about but it was a long time ago. Only time in my career I burned my bridge, thankfully it helped light my way to my next venture.

This clown: