This cluelessness manifests itself in many ways; for example, one study showed that people in power were more likely to grab more cookies and to eat like pigs. To give Huffington Post readers a sense of the horrific actions of the worst bosses and, to entertain you a bit too, I put out a call on my blog Work Matters for stories about “clueless and comical bosses.” Between comments on the blog and emails from readers, I received approximately about 200 examples; although many were funny, some were just plain sick and even downright cruel. Here are the 14 worst.
Bob Sutton, writing for The Huffington Post, has a highly entertaining column up about, literally, the world’s worst bosses and thing things they do to earn themselves that title. It’s hard to believe some of this is true.
After reading this, do you feel better about your own career situation now? Thought so.
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