Palest Ink

Open Letter to a Bad Boss

Dearest Employer,

I am pleased to announce to you that I am no longer of an age where baby-sitting is required. There is nobody else in this business who even understands how to do what I do, and therefor having them monitor me more closely is only an added layer of inefficiency that will both hinder my ability to work, and cause me to completely despair of ever finding an ounce of satisfaction in a job for which I am underpaid. If you MUST have someone oversee me, despite the fact that I have been doing my job more than satisfactorily for 7 years, please do not choose the one person who is the biggest slacker and self-important idiot that works here. Your employees don’t respect him for very good reasons, and if you try and put him in charge of a perfectly good employee like myself, the results will only be a degradation of quality, or the loss of said perfectly good employee.

While I am at it, may I point out, that the world has changed since you started the business in the 60’s? Employees now expect to do more than punch a time card, suck up to the big boss all day while being treated like dirt/slaves, and then go home to their tract house in suburbia, waiting for the next small dose of hell in the morning. We want to feel like we matter. We want meaning and some sense of control over our lives. If your ego is so small that you really have to treat us all like daft children in order to know that you are the boss, then you really should seek some sort of professional counseling. You own the business. We don’t need you to prove to us that you are the boss. You do not need to make arbitrary decisions that serve no purpose other than to deny us that control. Treating us like we matter is only going to make us actually want the business to succeed. It might also cause us actually like being here, which can’t possibly be bad for the business. These are just a few things to think about, which I sincerely hope that you will do.

Sincerely Yours,
A Good Employee That You’ll Likely Soon Lose