Tomas: AH!
Agent 9: You're weary. You're frustrated.
Bartholomew: You're unhappy.
Tomas: You're demotivated.
Billy: Your interaction with your boss leaves you cold.
Sgt. Byrd: He's a bully, intrusive, controlling, picky or petty.
Bubba: He takes credit for your work, never provides positive feedback and misses each meeting he schedules with you.
Bartholomew: Or he caves immediately under pressure and fails to support you in accomplishing your job.
Spyro exe: Caves, fails, Bartholomew.
Bartholomew: No!
Sorceress: Heh, heh, Spyro.
Tomas: He never recognizes your excellent performance or that of any other employee, so the office is joyless and unhappy.
Hunter: He's a bad boss, bad to the bone.
Sheila: Dealing with a less than effective manager, or just plain bad managers and bad bosses, is a challenge too many employees face.
Lindar: No matter the character of your bad boss, these ideas will help you deal with it.
Cleetus: Start your campaign by understanding that your boss may not know that he is a bad boss.
Sorceress: Stupid egg, forever!
Bartholomew: Just as in situational leadership, the definition of bad depends on the employee's needs, the manager's skills and the circumstances.
Billy: A hands-off manager may not realize that his failure to provide any direction or feedback makes him a bad boss.
Ripto: Hands-off, Billy, now, Spyro the Dragon!
Spyro: What?
Gnasty: Ugly!
Gnasty attack Spyro
Bartholomew: He may think he's empowering his staff.
Billy: A manager who provides too much direction and micromanages may feel insecure and uncertain about his own job.
Sparx: He may not realize his direction is insulting to a competent, secure, self-directed staff member.
Sgt. Byrd: Or, maybe the boss lacks training and is so overwhelmed with his job requirements that he can't provide support for you.
Elora: Perhaps he has been promoted too quickly, or his reporting responsibilities have expanded beyond his reach.
Billy: In these days of downsizing, responsibilities are often shared by fewer staff members than ever before which can affect their ability to do the job well.
Lateef: This bad boss may not share your values.
Lindar: The youngest generations of workers expect that they can use their vacation time and take action to make work-life balance a priority.
Crush: [Roaring]
Sorceress: Well Crush, this take.
Sgt. Byrd: A flexible work schedule may make the job their dream job.
Tomas: But, not all bosses share these views.
Sheila: Some, for example, think that remote workers harm the culture and interfere with developing a culture of teamwork.
Damon: If your values are out of sync with those of your boss, and you don't think this imbalance will change, you do have a problem.
Crush: [Roaring]
Bartholomew: Maybe it's time to change bosses.
Agent 9: But, until then, these actions are recommended for you to preserve your relationship, such as it is.
Sgt. Byrd: Uh oh is defined as something you say when you made a mistake, or when something is going wrong or a bad thing is about to happen.
Crush: [Roaring]
Gnasty: Spyro, defeated.
Spyro: No.
Bartholomew: Come on, Spyro, move it! Hey, bro! It.
Bentley: Sexy, WTF.
Lindar: Thank you for releasing me.
Tomas: Lindar, thank you for releasing me.
Spyro: Oh no.
Damon: No please.
Sorceress: Spyro, next time year of the dragon!
Sorceress attack Spyro
To be continued