- A person in a position of influence (owner, leader, manager, supervisor, lead, legacy employee (15 years+ with the organization) , highly-tenured employee (5 years+ with the organization) who is not a consistent role model of positive excellence.
- A person in a position of influence who is a hypocrite of what they expect
- A person in a position of influence who utilizes threat, intimidation, and fear to achieve results from others.
- A person in a position of influence who does not recognize that their role is to coach, advocate, teach, mentor, and the provide tools for each employee to be successful.
- Takes frustrations out on employees; vents to their employees because they see them as subservient. The best managers are the opposite- they see their role is to be servant mentors to their employees.
- Different sets of rules based on how much they like you, or someone else. Plays favorites.
- A person in a position of influence who has little to no self-awareness, emotional intelligence.
- A boss with unreasonable with expectations, discourteous, mean, disrespectable, inconsistent, partial, biased,
- An individual that lacks the ability to effectively lead/manage due to any of the following:
- inability to lead by example due to lack of skills or experience
- micromanagement
- ineffective
- aggressive or abusive communication
- inability to set clearly defined responsibilities
- disrespects boundaries
- someone that only cares about themselves.
- If you’re here looking for help, that is all that matters. We don’t have to all agree to one standard definition of a BossHole. There are so many different types of BossHoles…
- There is no one definition.
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