Do you like your boss?

My work is mostly self-managing, so I don't necessarily have a direct boss. I do have superiors of course, and they're great.

I liked the first boss I had on my last steady, full-time job that I had. Since it was my first full time job, he advised me to keep calm, and ran a tight ship, but was very fair and reassuring. The second boss I had who took over after my first boss and his family moved to Florida due to his wife's poor health, was okay, as well. When I'd been there for about 13 years, however, a new supervisor was brought into our department to reflect certain changes that were happening in the company where I worked. Things began to change for the worse. Our new supervisor became extremely overzealous, making things miserable enough so that three out of the six subordinates that were left in my department, including myself, ended up filing grievances against her.

Not too, too long afterwards, our department, the Customer Service Dept., and the Accounts receivable department, were both outsourced, and taken over by outside agencies. Not good, at all.

As for the overzealous new supervisor, she, too, was ultimately laid off. The last time I heard, she was working as a telemarketer for Boston Food Bank.