How many times have you left a job because of the boss?

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Lily-Rose wrote: »

I can believe that.

What I can't get my head around, is that happening seven times in 3 years.

Sounds like unrealistic expectations of working life or an awkward personality

PixelPound

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Apparently the stat is 40% of people leave their job because of their boss

I've left one job (of 6 years) because I had a new manager who decided he wanted to micro manage me. Left for a 20℅ pay rise so it wasn't all bad.

There is a tactic in management of "managing people out of the business" to get someone who doesn't fit in to leave, so that statistic doesn't surprise me.

WibblyGirly

I've had 5 jobs, all retail. 2 I have left because the boss was a nightmare. I couldn't deal with being manipulated and made to look stupid at one of them so I quit after about 3 months. In that time about 7 or 8 other staff had started and left! Later on that manager got fired from a different shop for bullying staff.
The other manager was either really happy with everything you did or hated you and made you feel like such crap. Favouritism and a bully! Heard that one also nearly got fired for bullying staff but left just before.

Owain_Moneysaver

I left one place after I found out the boss was entertaining prostitutes (male and female) in hotels but expecting me to tell his wife he was in meetings.

Didn't put that on the CV as a reason for leaving, though.

Carl31

i left my last one as my boss was a narcissist and didn't like it when I uncovered something pretty severe he had missed, seeing as i was his junior, he made my life uncomfortable after that

I almost left my current role due to my boss, but decided to try and manage it out, which worked out. I generally find 'poor' bosses are those that cannot cope with their job, for whatever reason, hence try to hide it, usually resulting in negative behaviour

GlasweJen

I quit a job after I noticed discrepancies in the banking and typed those onto the head office transmission and not the expected figures (oops). Head office then sent him a letter when on holiday saying an investigation had been carried out and he was sacked immediately for GM.

The manager pointed out that wasn't the correct process so was reinstated to the role and told everyone that he was now untouchable after head offices last screw up. You'd think that would be enough to make him stop taking money but miraculously it wasn't so head office kept investigating with people appearing with no notice opening tills and printing reports, going through the stock cupboard and the safe while the !!!!!! manager sat in the corner like the cat who got the cream with a ridiculous smug smile. The best visit was when HO went looking for the £300 Hoover that he'd put a receipt in for and taken money from the till to cover, the shops Hoover was older than me and was being used without Hoover bags as there was never money in the petty cash to cover the cost of them.

They did eventually sack him along with his assistant manager who didn't report the discrepancies and a few store staff.

lincroft1710

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

I left one place after I found out the boss was entertaining prostitutes (male and female) in hotels

Doesn't that prove he's an equal opportunities employer?

coffeehound

Although I struggle badly with the whole office politics thing, I've only once had to leave due to not getting on with a boss in 30-odd years. She was a man-hater and even the senior manager cheerfully acknowledged two previous male subordinates had left due to her. She was always careful to curry favour with the men above her in the pecking order though and is now a senior manager there.

HiToAll

Andrew_Ryan_89 wrote: »

I was helping a friend out with his CV recently. He has had trouble finding a job for a few months now and looking at his CV, one of the problems is that he job hops a lot. In the past 3 years he has had 7 jobs, all within the professional space. For most of them, he tells me it's because he manager was not very nice, there is no development etc.

I started thinking about my experiences and why I have left jobs. Back when I was working in retail, I have only left jobs because of education or moving onto something better. Since then, I am on my third job in the professional space. First I left because of my boss. I was contemplating leaving anyway because of the low salary but my boss was so terrible I had to go.

I have had terrible bosses in the past but that was the only time someone drove me to leave.

tell him to look closer to home for the problem. 1 or two managers the problem....maybe. Most of 7 jobs where the manager is the problem.....not a chance.

Kayalana99

xapprenticex wrote: »

Wow, that sounds extreme, you mean they are made to fell like a fish at the bottom of the barrel? Interesting symbolism.

I'll never forget working in retail when one of the top managers walked up to me, asked me to follow him 3 aisles over, and pointed to a piece of rubbish on the floor and asked me to pick it up. Literally a customer had left a shopping list on the floor and he'd seen it, so rather then bend down to pick it up he had gone looking for someone else too. If it happened now I would have called him on it, but I was 17 at the time and a bit taken back.

I understand people leaving because of their boss, but 7 jobs in 3 years makes you start to wonder if said friend is the issue.