Hello mi gente!!! So as I browse the LinkedIn page I read a lot of posts regarding what makes a good boss and everything to do with leadership.
I’m thankful 🥹 I haven’t had too many bosses in my lifetime because I started my adventure in the workplace until I was 27. It hurts me to know I literally had to wait that long to be acknowledged as a potential and reliable employee. Now, with that in mind the only good thing is I never had to start working at a fast food restaurant or a retail store like 99% of the teenage population.
Let me see I’ve had an estimate of 7 different bosses not including the labor pools which constantly rotated and obviously were a daily assignment. Out of those 7 primary bosses in part time and full time jobs only two were just 😫😫😫🙄🙄🙄🫤🫤🫤 bad. The first one ironically was my first bad encounter. She was younger than me at the time, and thought I couldn’t take orders because the age difference to which I specifically told her and I quote, “ If a two year old was in charge of the activity I would have no problem listening to them.” What made her a bad boss was her lack of trust in all her employees (3) to do as she asked with just one simple request. She had to monitor the progress every 5 minutes and she had to imply that there was only one way to get things done and that was her way. This bad boss literally had a written process for every little task like someone wasn’t coherent. The general concept of writing out step by step instructions in getting something done is not wrong, but when you have to step by step how to print labels and have a freaking checklist to do what was suppose to be a “small cleaning” —- damn that’s annoying!!!!
She was a horrible boss, because she had incoherent expectations of what my tasks were as a “administrative assistant” (which was just a fancy title for office cleaning lady/making coffee, shred, copy, stamp, mail) and one day she actually got mad at me for now washing her damn coffee cup that she kept at her cubicle and not at the sink. So she really thought that after doing the daily cleaning and washing the dishes at the sink that I too would go around picking them up. I did text her once at the very beginning of me working there she was the best but it was a total lie and I totally kissed her butt. I didn’t know what to text back because that was another annoying thing that she constantly texted me asking me dumb questions and constant monitoring before she got to work, after she left, after I left and it was super aggravating.
The straw that broke the camel’s back was actually the lack of respect they had for me there altogether. It was a small mom and pop small business, but they discriminated against me because I didn’t have my own MOT and never offered me full-time even though clearly I needed in order to get my MOT. MOT stands for mode of transportation it’s just a fancy way of saying my own car. Once they transferred to a new location, the original “small cleaning” turned into almost 2 hours every day plus a whole 4 hours on Wednesdays and I was feed up with the expectation that I had to complete the cleaning and the office tasks within a 5 to 6 hour shift. I worked for them for four consecutive months and what did I get in return from them: nothing. I was a professional already with a bachelors degree from a real university and they treated me like a coffee and donut cart vendor. They never cared to ask for my input on how to improve things and participate on the more meaningful aspects of the job. The only good thing that came of it was starting my resume timeline.
The second horrible boss I had truly takes the cake. She number one did not deserve or earn her position at the clinic I was working. She only was placed there because she had a friend in the company who basically put her there. She never met the basic standards for healthcare in regards to being aware and prepared for being in healthcare. I had my medical office administration certificate when I applied and I also had experience working in healthcare as a volunteer and in general. This lady didn’t even know the difference between Medicaid and Medicare. She was a micromanaging freak to say the least. Literally every 5 to minutes she was giving dumb orders that were already implied. I thank the Lord I’m not blind and my peripheral vision is intact. Every time a patient was being discharged and approaches the front desk, I know that they need their discharge papers and I can hear the printer going off. And even then, she still had the audacity just to annoy me and give orders, “ Can you grab the papers off the printer and give them to the patient.” I am aware and you don’t have to say every single time. That is like telling me “make sure you close the door when you use the bathroom” — like it’s an obvious self explanatory thing that doesn’t need to be mentioned!!!
I could not stand her way of approaching me with tasks and insinuating that the poor customer service rating were my fault. When clearly it was already a poor establishment lacking everything. She was so annoying with her loud mouth and random screams. Truth be told, if she hadn’t resigned to go back to her industry I was on the verge of quitting myself. She made being at work unbearable and frustrating. She acted like she knew so much about management because she had worked for over 20 years at a toy store as a manager. How in the world do you compare managing a toy store with something as delicate and complex as a medical health facility. As soon as she left, we all had a sense of relief and our scores were the highest they’ve ever been and it wasn’t because of her and what she did. I pray for the current employees under her management because I already know what they’re dealing with. No one is perfect, but certain people like her could really reevaluate her way of managing and constantly belittling people with her smart ass remarks. She always prioritize her needs and wants over anyone else: like making me come in for 3 stupid hours on a day I had already requested my 5 hours of PTO which technically hadn’t been updated just so she could go get her damn nails done. It was my family members surgery and had it not been schedule in the afternoon I definitely would have not made it in. She literally threatened me to write me up if I didn’t come in because allegedly I didn’t have enough hours to cover my whole shift. She did write me up two others times for bogus claims that I needed to improve customer service because one angry customer said something even though they never mentioned my name or described anything out of the ordinary. I truly deserve a price for enduring so much at that clinic for two years in a row.
Anyways I just wanted to share my bad bosses and reiterate that the best kind of leadership is one where trust is given from the boss to his or her employees without questioning their capabilities to perform the job (because why hired them if you doubt they could do anything right). When you are a leader, you lead with example of being kind, prompt, and respectful to everyone’s situation. A leader is someone who aids others to be successful and not in competition to make them feel less than yourself. As always don’t forget “You are not a mistake because God is perfect and He does not make mistakes.” Thank you for reading come share, comment, like!!!
Love,
Xoxoxoxoxoxo,
Ana :)
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