Hands up, how many of you actually hate your boss? I can imagine a fair few will be nodding their head in agreement that they hate there boss.
I search google with the words 'I hate my boss' and with that simple sentence I found 12,800,000 results.
Change the wording to 'I hate my manager' and the results add up to 58,600,000.
I am sure if I delve deeper I would be able to find more results, so what does this tell me? It tells me that we in the nursing profession are not alone in 'hating' our bosses, we are not the only profession who feels we employ idiots to 'run' business's
Who do we define the term boss?
Boss an individual that is usually the immediate supervisor of some number of employees and has certain capacities and responsibilities to make decisions. The term itself is not a formal title, and is sometimes used to refer to any higher level employee in a company, including a supervisor, manager, director, or the ceo.
But did you know that a boss can also be defined as...
Boss 3 (bs) n.A cow or calf. [perhaps ultimately from latin bs; see bovine.]
There are books on...
- How to manage your boss
- How to kill your boss
- Get back at your boss
There are over 10,000,000 I hate my boss jokes!
Bosses are also being blamed on causing marital problems too!
That bad marriage - it could be the fault of your abusive boss
So there is lots of information on hating your boss. Does this make me feel better? No!
It is also laughable that if you do further education past your bsn in management or business and throw in a msn for good measure you are now eligible to go for middle or upper management! Doesn't really matter if you are good at it, have any people skills, or even a lot of hands on nursing care, you are now considered to be management material.
I have nothing against further education but some of the strangest people have msn, I do not think that having a masters in anything means you have common sense.
Most people who go onto obtain further education have access to money! We know it is not cheap to get further education.
You have to have good credit scores and have to be dedicated to working extremely hard in your studies and normally at the cost of other parts of your life.
My boss has every known degree known to mankind yet I still question her decisions, I feel her hands on experience is minimum and I wonder if she ever worked as a frustrated staff nurse.
I think doing time spent as a frustrated staff nurse makes you understand the problems and issues that everybody experiences first hand on a busy floor.
This in turn helps you have a human approach to management, that is what I believe is missing these days. You have to know how to turn things around in a crisis. You have to have very good understand how your specialty works. How to troubleshoot.
You cannot tell by watching staff how busy they are! Most rn's aren't running around like headless chickens, they are calm, confident and have excellent time management skills, so they make it look easy!
That doesn't mean to say they are having an easy day, eventually after a certain amount of experience on the floor you grow to realize running around like a headless chicken serves no purpose. You use up energy and brain power you actually need to be effective.
A lot of management staff in health care have stood still for very little time before they have climbed the ladder very quickly.
I am sure if you ask your bosses how long they worked as an basic rn on a unit, they will barely have 5 years or less!
Most of them have planned their career very carefully and always seem to find themselves in the right place at the right time.
These days I have seen advertisements for charge nurse positions with only a minimum of 1 year post grad experience under their belt. This concerns me because 1 yr is barely enough time to get your feet wet let alone have the experience and know how of managing staff and the unit.
When I was a newby staff nurse I could turn to my charge nurses and managers and they knew everything. It always amazed me.
I bet in some cases this is not true anymore.
I still hate my boss and I have to learn how to channel this emotion towards something more positive as the negativity is 'killing' me.
I have got to the stage that I worry about every single interaction between us, I suspect she is 'out to get me', I imagine she has a different agenda to me and if I don't agree she 'is out to get me'.
I have become paranoid and this emotion bothers me! I ask myself why do I really think she is out to get me?
It is a personality clash? Or is it simply 'i dont like being told'
Remember, it takes two to tango.
