Blessings of a Bad Boss

They say everything has a purpose in life. Well, so has having a bad boss. Sounds difficult to digest, but true.

Working under a bad-tempered, sadist and character-detective (one who is always looking for faults in you) boss teaches you many things which you can hardly learn otherwise.

First, you start questioning things which have been crammed into your mind since you fluttered your eyes for the first time on the earth. I belong to a religious and God-loving (/fearing) family, and the only thing I found inevitable in my life apart from the exams was- existence of God. But I questioned my belief once I got in terms with the tin-pot dictator of my office. Now I’m more careful about choosing my beliefs. A great leap towards rationality.

Second, you develop stamina, the emotional one. After your initial struggle to correct things, you start looking for a better option. Correcting yourself. Correcting your own attitude. Because you know that your effort to correct your boss is like a rabbit going inside a river to teach the crocodile manners. So you start working on your emotions, your proactivity and your immunity to what goes around. Whatever. You become strong, and start feeling that after this episode you can take on whatever life throws at you.

Third, death of the deadline. Yeah! You’d understand this term if you have had to work late nights for days at a stretch only to come to know that the deadline given to you with such an oh-so-serious gesture actually never existed in the first place. So, why was it given? Maybe the boss felt that you were not given enough work, and he needed to see that your talents were not rusting because of those glimpses of leisure.

Well, it’s just the beginning. This life is an ongoing learning lesson, and having such a unique boss is an important milestone. Learn to respect it, and you would get ahead better.