Your Boss?
1. "As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using
individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees
will receive their cards in two weeks."
2. "What I need is an exact list of specific unknown problems we might
encounter."
3. "E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or data. It should be used
only for company business."
4. "This project is so important, we can't let things that are more important
interfere with it."
5. "Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule.”
6. "No one will believe you solved this problem in one day! We've been working
on it for months. Now, go act busy for a few weeks and I'll let you know when
it's time to tell them
7. Quote from the Boss: "Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say
8. My sister passed away and her funeral was scheduled for Monday. When I told
my Boss, he said she died on purpose so that I would have to miss work on the
busiest day of the year. He then asked if we could change her burial to Friday.
He said, "That would be better for me."
9. "We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to
discuss it with the employees
10. One day my Boss asked me to submit a status report to him concerning a
project I was working on. I asked him if tomorrow would be soon enough. He said,
"If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited until tomorrow to ask for it!"