Ever had a bully for a boss?

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7. I have a wanna be boss that is in a position where he has some limited authority.

He's on thin ice from what I hear and about to have his job description re-written to limit his responsibilities. He's like you say, a real micro-manager and he's a total snot nosed OCD punk! I defied one of his bullshit orders and he threatened to go to our HQ, where he works and go through channels to get me. He got his ass handed to him! My real supervisor and department manager told him they weren't going to enforce his bullshit.

He got shot down in flames partly because my real bosses know to just leave me alone and let me do what I need to do. I handle my end of things at a remote blood center. That mostly means my computer gear and the mobile collections vehicles. He's dumb enough to think he wants to micro-manage me when I could make that a nightmare for him. We're 100 miles away. He better be careful what he asks for! He's pretty much going to be gone eventually I think. He might even quit when they drop the bomb on him over the new job description. I'm not supposed to know about it at all. I thought about blowing the lid off the whole thing with an anonymous email to him telling him about it and to eat shit! I'm afraid management would then go on the warpath looking to fire someone. I wouldn't want the wrong people to get screwed.

I had a bully for a boss at a beer distributor for several years. One incident was when I told out warehouse supervisor in mid October that it was time to turn the big heaters on. That involved getting up there to light the pilot lights. The boss was his dad and overheard me. Despite my having handled this before along with telling his son when it was time to shut the heaters down early in the spring, he jumps in and says, "hell no! Not yet, we don't want you running those heaters all the time this early." So I end up freezing my ass for a few weeks until it got really cold and they had to turn the heaters on.

That cost him! Okay stupid fuck! Who's going to tell you in the spring to shut the heaters down to save money until the next fall? Not me! Not your son! I just turned the thermostats all the way down so they would never kick on and left it that way. The next fall when I needed heat, fired them right up. It stayed that way for the next five years or so that I worked there. I think I had to get up there and relight a pilot light once but I just did it without asking anyone.