Title really says it all. I've worked a good number of jobs in my life–lab tech, farm hand, greenhouse production asst., school teacher, baker, barista. They've all had their ups and downs, but almost universally the worst part of them has been my boss.

Weeding carrots and beets on the farm in the heat of the day was rough, but it got a hundred times worse when my boss showed up and chewed me out for doing work that needed to be done. Waking up at 2am to get bread baked in time for the shop to open was rough, but it was a hundred times worse when my boss arrived and started spouting flat earth Q-Anon conspiracies as I slaved away in front of a scorching-hot commercial oven, demanding my attention. Rushing around to serve a huge line of people, all of them demanding the fastest possible service is rough, but it gets a hundred times worse when my boss walks in and starts micromanaging me in the middle of it all.

I've never had a job that I couldn't handle. Waking up at ungodly hours, working 11 or 12 hour shifts in unbearable heat/humidity, consistently high pace of work, etc., it's all doable. I can live with it, learn the rhythm and make it work. Every job I've ever left, it's been because of the boss, not the work itself. If they'd just leave us alone and let us focus on the work, we'd be both happier and more efficient.

I firmly believe that the egoistic need of bosses to interfere with workers leads to millions of dollars in lost productivity every year. Every single person I know has stories of nightmare managers fucking with a perfectly good system in order to try justifying their own existence (and inflated salary) and causing catastrophes as a result.

I think (on this sub anyway) it's fairly uncontroversial to say that the workers are the ones who get everything done. But it's really worth pointing out that the bosses are the ones who seem to hold everything back, as well.

Title really says it all. I've worked a good number of jobs in my life–lab tech, farm hand, greenhouse production asst., school teacher, baker, barista. They've all had their ups and downs, but almost universally the worst part of them has been my boss.

Weeding carrots and beets on the farm in the heat of the day was rough, but it got a hundred times worse when my boss showed up and chewed me out for doing work that needed to be done. Waking up at 2am to get bread baked in time for the shop to open was rough, but it was a hundred times worse when my boss arrived and started spouting flat earth Q-Anon conspiracies as I slaved away in front of a scorching-hot commercial oven, demanding my attention. Rushing around to serve a huge line of people, all of them demanding the fastest possible service is rough, but it gets a hundred times worse when my boss walks in and starts micromanaging me in the middle of it all.

I've never had a job that I couldn't handle. Waking up at ungodly hours, working 11 or 12 hour shifts in unbearable heat/humidity, consistently high pace of work, etc., it's all doable. I can live with it, learn the rhythm and make it work. Every job I've ever left, it's been because of the boss, not the work itself. If they'd just leave us alone and let us focus on the work, we'd be both happier and more efficient.

I firmly believe that the egoistic need of bosses to interfere with workers leads to millions of dollars in lost productivity every year. Every single person I know has stories of nightmare managers fucking with a perfectly good system in order to try justifying their own existence (and inflated salary) and causing catastrophes as a result.

I think (on this sub anyway) it's fairly uncontroversial to say that the workers are the ones who get everything done. But it's really worth pointing out that the bosses are the ones who seem to hold everything back, as well.