Workplace madness

Found a very interesting article on Fortune by Stanley Bing.
(Link: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/06/11/100082884/index.htm?postversion=2007060506)


He had earlier written about how bosses are crazy and I won’t go into that, since there is enough literature on that, the best being Scott Adams’s Dilbert cartoons.
He talks about how for ages we have been researching authoritative behavior of bosses, but not paid enough attention to the tantrums thrown by employees.
It is indeed true that some times employees are as crazy as their bosses!
To quote Bing: “Because we are nuts, you know, we who work for those who go insane above us. We're crazy and incompetent and lazy and churlish and occasionally stupid and cowardly and disloyal. And it's time we all sucked it up and stopped blaming our bosses for everything. “
The full article is too long to be posted here, so I am providing the link and would stop with the six points of employee behavior that drive bosses crazy:

1. We don't listen.
2. We show up late.
3. We leave early
4. We squabble.
5. We need to be loved.
6. We leave.

I guess there is enough ammunition for Dilbert’s boss to start his own comic strip :)