Career coach: I love my job, but I hate my boss – what do I do?

Good advice. And how often do we actually have bosses we ‘love’?. Most work places are a pressure cooker of different personality styles, ambitions, needs, neurosis, and yes the odd genuine psychopath (get out now!!) and we’re not there for a jolly, we’re there to make a profit or get a ‘result’ and if we don’t heads will roll. Phew. No wonder most of us can probably relate at some point to “i hate my boss”. More of a miracle is working under someone you like and respect most of the time. Thank you SSA, DC, AP & MOF you know who you are!

Career Coach….is that any relation to Life Coach?

Hi Nic

Good question!

Career Coaching and Life Coaching are definitely related, but from different families.

Most coaches should (hopefully!) have specific training and focus in one or both of these to be able to claim expertise.

Then who you work with would depend on the outcome you are looking for.

Do you want support, tools and techniques to increase your impact at work, or is there something(s) in your personal life you would rather work on?

Of course, you talk about your life outside work in career coaching, and vice versa I’m sure – but Career Coaching (or at least my work) focusses specifically on increasing your impact, recognition, productivity and rewards in your career.

Very happy to have a quick chat if you want to give me a call on 0406 779 227.

A variety of factors can motivate a human being. Human beings are not robots, which is why robots are so damn awesome at replacing humans in roles that involve no emotion… Think manufacturing lines, think 3d printers, think UBER and driverless cars in the not too distant future.

It is really tough when your boss sucks. If the company / purpose / colleagues and cause give you the drive and motivation to keep going, then you should be able to ride it out, as bosses come and go and bad ones are usually sniffed out. The key if you think that your boss is a dud, is to ask other members of the team, (trusted colleagues). If you keep it to yourself you will go mad and become upset. Ask, align thoughts and if need be; take action. Manage up and if need be, involve the masses in the workplace to manage them out.

Call out the bastard in front of the entire office.
Chances are that you are not the only he has been an arse to.
He will then ask you to go into his office away from prying eyes.
Don’t!
Unless his office has glass walls.
Then go nuclear on his sorry arse.
(Of course, back your ‘conversation’ with indisputable facts).
By this point, everyone within earshot will be whipping out their iPhones to record the public bitch slap.
If the the scales of universal justice are in your favour, the boss from hell will be bounced out.

Note:
In a showdown the stakes are high. Only one will survive.
So be very sure of yourself. And be prepared for the consequences if you fail.
To stay on under an unreasonable boss doesn’t make you tough. Just another office victim.

Bad Bad Bad. “They” is not a replacement for the absence of a common gender, and one should never offer advice when the vital facts are unknown.

In this case even the working relationship is unknown. Might all just be a growing up experience and one of those little rocks against which we have all caught our feet and stumbled, before striding ahead.

I loved my boss but hated my job once, I wasted nearly a year of my life trying to make the job work for the sake of my relationship with my the boss! Now that was insane :o(

I work with a bunch of women of which I am one. We are all type AAA personalities. Holy crap it gets tough at times. Trying to remove myself from the toxic and focus on my purpose gets challenging. One co- worker in particular gets on my last nerve quite frequently because if you try to talk with her she starts to cry…… I get that she won’t change and it’s up to me to pick my behavior. Bugs me that she can act the way she does without consequence. The older I get the more I lose my patience. Love my job so I think I’ll just move my desk:)