Igor Delovski Board

[Ike]

Wikipedia: Pointy-Haired Boss



"The Pointy-Haired Boss (often abbreviated to just PHB) is Dilbert's boss
in the Dilbert comic strip. He is notable for his gross incompetence and
unawareness of his surroundings, yet somehow retains power in the
workplace."

[Ike]

Andy Hertzfeld: Too Big For My Britches

Andy: 'I accomplished everything that I was supposed to, and a lot more
besides.' All my previous reviews from Apple were extremely positive,
including the last one from Bob, so this was new to me.

Bob: 'Oh, don't get me wrong, I think your technical work was perfectly
adequate during the review period, and I don't have a single criticism of
it. The problem is with your attitude, and your relationship with management.'

[delovski]

Slashdot: Study Says 2 In 5 Bosses Lie

Freshly Exhumed writes to tell us about a Florida State University study
of 700 employees indicating that nearly two of five bosses don't keep their
word. The study will be published later this year. From the article:

"The abusive boss has been well documented in movies ('Nine to Five'),
television (Fox's 'My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss') and even the Internet. 'They
say that employees don't leave their job or company, they leave their
boss. We wanted to see if this is, in fact, true,' said Wayne Hochwarter, an
associate professor of management in FSU's College of Business."

[XNote]

An Entirely Other Day: Wide vs. Deep

"And so I actually got my demotion. I was a programmer again. Or I
was for two months, before my new boss left and I was moved into
his job. Managing three times as many people as before.

If I were a good manager, I’d probably be a terrible programmer.

It’s taken me too long — far too long — to realize this, because it’s
hard to look at the accepted progression of things and realize that
it doesn’t fit. I don’t want to be a manager. It’s not what I’m good
at, what I find satisfaction in. The trick now is fixing the situation.

I’m afraid it’s going to involve talking to people."

[XNote]

How to Deal With Bully Bosses

"A false assumption is thinking that bosses actually know how to manage
people. Mention the word "boss" and we immediately think that the person
has some special abilities or training. There are rules and training programs
for almost every conceivable job, from sanitation engineer to nuclear
physicist, but no set curriculum teaches you how to be a boss. An obvious
way to compensate for a lack of skills is to be tough and unyielding."

[delovski]

Philippe Destoop - Real-life Dilbert manager quotes

"A magazine recently ran a 'Dilbert Quotes' contest. They were looking for
people to submit quotes from their real-life Dilbert-type managers. These
were voted the top ten quotes in corporate America."