You go to work every day, happy or less happy, interacting with all your co-workers and with your clients. You get to the last day of your work week, a week that you thought was good, productive and had no issues. And then you get a call from your boss, a call that causes you to pause and look at your week and ask yourself did I miss judge my week? Did I miss anything?
You start to question yourselves and your actions during the week and after questioning yourself and asking the people around you, you understand it is not you. You just have a bad manager .
A manager that not only does not value or appreciate you but is also actively trying to depict you in a bad light while lying about your performance or constantly finding fault in what you do.
How do we deal with bad and toxic leadership when there is no one above said manager that you can speak to?
When we work in small or family owned companies, we sometimes lose when a family member who is also your manager has no one to be accountable to. Issuing a complaint to HR will not do anything as even they are beholden to this family and their job is at stake as well. God knows that the annual anonymous employee survey is not really anonymous or even if it is no one will do anything about what you write.
Dealing with a bad boss is not easy, especially when you know that they are wrong. Do we keep our heads low until we find a different job? But what if you really like what you do and your co-workers, do you give it all up for one bad leader?
As you can tell I am in a quandary, so for now I will enjoy my weekend and try to cleanse all the bad mojo out of my life and will look for all the positive things that I had this week.
If you are reading this on a weekend, I hope you have a great one, otherwise keep your spirit strong .
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