From the course: Bad Boss: Dealing with a Difficult Manager

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Example: Is your boss evil?

Example: Is your boss evil?

From the course: Bad Boss: Dealing with a Difficult Manager

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Example: Is your boss evil?

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- An example of a bad boss that I had a few years ago, was a guy called Harry, and I remember he rang me up and he said, "Come and see me, would you?" And I thought oh, you always know it's bad when he just says come and see me in my office. So I went to see him and he said, "Chris, I don't think you're worth the money." He said, I'm paying you all this money "and the factory keeps on making mistakes "and I just don't think you're worth the money." And mistakes do happen, in factories all the time. That's kind of how they are. So, what would you say if your boss just said, I don't think you're worth the money? So I thought, right, I will prove, with logic, that I'm worth the money. So I said to him, well, I will show you that I'm worth it. I'll come back tomorrow with a list. So, I came back the next day with a list of all the things I'd done that had saved him money and, in fact, it added up to 400,000 pounds I'd saved him, .4 of a million. So we were feeding the edge trim back into…

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