Can we "fire" our boss?
By annesca0308
@annesca0308 (43)
Vietnam
5 responses
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
12 Nov 06
Put together your complaints in one packet and make a meeting with his supervisor. Meet with the supervisor and lodge your complaints (with proof) to him. I don't know if he will be fired but if the main supervisor is not aware fo the issues, he can't do anything about it.
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@annesca0308 (43)
• Vietnam
13 Nov 06
I heard that some companies allow to report boss issues to higher hierarchy. But I feel uncomfortable: can his or her superior will be at his side? because at the end, he or she is choosen by Executive Committee and not by subordinate
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@airnavigator (369)
• United States
12 Nov 06
You can't fire your boss, that is management's option. Rather than complaining about the boss consider your other options:- ask yourself what exactly is wrong and see if there is some way to work with the boss and help him/her overcome their weaknesses.
- ask yourself if these deficiencies in the boss are impeding your effectiveness as an employee and affecting your career or life outside work. If it is not affecting your career or life outside of work (excess stress from work, etc.) just shrug it off and don't let it bother you - if the boss is as bad as you say he/she won't last that long anyway.
- finally, if the boss is impeding your work and career or adding undue stress to your life and you can't shrug it off, then ask yourself if it is worth staying with your present employer. Take a sheet of paper and divide it into two columns and in one list all the reasons you should stay (good pay, good hours, good vacation policy, etc.) and in the other reasons why you should leave (bad boss, etc.) Study the list and, based upon what you have listed AND how important each one is to you (you may have 3 things in the leave column and 15 in the stay column, but if the 3 things in the leave are more important than the 15 in the stay column - then leave) and then decide whether to stay or leave.
Finally, years ago a group of fellow employees and I were faced with a terriable boss both for us and for the organization. We organized what amounted to an office coup and got her fired. It was very tricky and what really helped us was the fact that, in addition to her extremely poor management and leadership capabalities, we had hard evidence of minor financial fraud. The tricky part was finding a way to bring this to the attention of management in a way that let her enemies at the top "discover" this evidence themselves before she discovered what we were up to and turned the tables on us and got us fired (she had friends as well as enemies at the top). We succeeded but for weeks each of us went to work each day not knowing if it would be our last with that organization. The only reason we succeeded was the fact that the office poliltics at headquarters were extremely vicious with two factions, each seeking to destroy the other. Our boss was deeply involved with one faction and we managed to use the other faction against her. However, because of the office political situation the entire organization was a bad place to work and most of us ended up leaving on our own during the next couple of years anyway.
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@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
17 Jul 07
I don't know if it is actually possible to fire the boss, but I do know that if you want to report him, all you have to do is go to "human resources." If the boss is not playing by the rules, there are people that he can be reported to.
@tigertang (1749)
• Singapore
18 May 08
You can fire the boss - that's called resigning from the job or the project and walking away. It will stun the boss. I once worked on a project with a business partner. The guys kept having a go at him so he walked out from the project and told them that they would not have to pay him a single cent for work done. Guess what, the guy's who gave him the project could not stop talking about how he had refused to take money for many months. It was a slap on their face they could not recover from.