3 Reasons Employees Leave: Their Managers

[Sherman A1]

When I was 17, in an attempt to save up for the gorgeous (but absurdly unaffordable) prom dress of my dreams, I picked up an after-school job at a cards and gift shop. My boss, the owner of the store, was a tall man with a short temper who spent most of the workday barking orders ("Hey you, cover the register!&quot and asking me to lie to customers ("Hey you, don't tell them that item is on sale!&quot . And, yes, he referred to me as "hey, you" for the entirety of my employment.

Needless to say, as soon as I saved up enough cash to purchase something halfway decent from the clearance rack at Lord & Taylor, I jumped ship and never looked back.

In short, my boss made my time at work unbearable-and that's obviously why I left. It turns out, I'm not alone-Florida State University conducted a comprehensive study to analyze the reasons why dissatisfied employees leave their jobs, and it revealed that most of the time, employees leave managers, not companies.

http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/3-reasons-employees-leave-managers-211800866.html

[KitSileya]

1. Most managers are chosen according to the Peter Principle.

"Employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence."

And I'd add, to their level of meanness and psychopathy - the meaner and more manipulative they are, the higher they rise.

[Heywood J]

3. "Shit floats" is how I always heard it. (NT)

[Newest Reality]

2. Bossy bosses

are not so boss, said bossy the bossless cow.

Tens of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution and many of us grow up to encounter the asswholus erectus and deal with them in order to survive. That's more like devolution.

Such a shame. I think I would prefer a real, collective hive mind than a mean-spirited, authoritarian clown with nothing but a title that gives him or her the right to be a candidate for a thorough exorcism.