Boss from Heaven...errr NOT... more like from He**..!!!!

Have you ever had one of those bosses that has you saying " Thank God I found Jesus"? You know those kind of bosses (mostly female) that when you see them all you can see is a red faced devil with horns in front of their head. At some point you have either dreamt of:

• Slapping them up a few times.
• Sending some people to rough them up (I mean maximum shi shi kinda thing).
• Spitting in the coffee you nicely volunteered to make for them.
• Hoped they slip on a banana peel and fall face flat before a meeting (well hopefully with no broken bones..).
• Hoped they just decide to work from home 4 days a week then get fired for being mean.

And while you are speaking to them face to face all these thoughts (listed above) are running through your mind? God help my mind though lol... lets not lie we all have these thoughts sometimes when someone at work e.g. Boss/Colleague gets on your last nerve.

Well a close friend once told me about his boss, in fact he referred to this boss as demon 2.0 sent specifically to make his life miserable at work. He was Jejelly (pardon use of my Nigerian jargon) doing his thing in the 1st few months at the company and for some reason this boss started picking on him. Nothing he ever did was good enough...e.g. He mentioned a few times this 2.0 boss made mistakes in emails to clients and for some reason it automatically became my friends fault because he did not notify his boss to correct the mistakes before the emails was sent out. He realised he started loosing sleep and always felt agitated at work, poor thing almost lost his confidence with the role at times.

Most times he felt like he was being "Punked" or something, but then when he looked around there was definitely no Ashton Kutcher behind him, just the devil whispering stuff in the bosses ears....lol.

Anyways eventually the boss was transferred (talk about divine intervention) and through this experience he learnt some valuable lessons on how to handle horrible bosses of which he shared with me, see some below:

• Know your stuff and be confident about it.
• Always double check before contacting important clients.
• Keep asking questions if you are unsure at least until you are sure :).
• Learn the heck how to play healthy office politics if not, you will soon hear "Its all over Jackie".
• Find a healthy work life balance (Work smart not too hard, you are not anyone's Monkey)
• Learn to say "NO" in a diplomatic way if you feel you are being pushed to do what's not priority to your role but explain clearly and nicely.
• Try not to be confrontational and develop more people skills (read books, take tests and practise with friends if you have to).

I hope I never have to go through that though but I honestly feel God maybe allows these things to happen to us sometimes to build up our resistance and learn how to deal with different types of people. I think this happens a lot to workers but the companies do nothing about this sadly.

That's all from me for now, just thought to share. Remember to leave a comment below if you had this kind of experience before.

Be good.

Live, laugh and love.

Just Bae