Most of the bosses I've had were great. Others were horrible. One actually said, "We pay you to be here from 8-5 with an hour for lunch, no more. There is no excuse for being 2 minutes late and no reason to leave 2 minutes early." Needless to say, I didn't work for there long. My current boss may be the best I've ever had.

Something like 80% of people that change jobs do so because of the boss, so you're not alone.

Can you talk to HR about it? Or directly to your boss?


>I know that I'm a hard person to have working under someone, but I am so tired of dealing with the idiocyncrasies of bosses that I just want to quit and count clover in some far-off field. My current "functional" boss - meaning she gives me my work, but someone else has the admin duties - is killing me. I never know what mood she's going to be in when I have to deal with her. Is it the nice, caring one, or the moody, stressed one? Never know. It's like we're dating. And not the cool first third of the relationship, but rather the last "what are you doing here" third. I like what I do, but I swear I have got to find somewhere else to go. Yeah, I know, but I really don't care if they read this or not. What about others? Is it the same everywhere and it's just my problem with authority, or are there really good bosses out there to work for?