Editor’s note: Mr. Causey is under the weather. The following is mostly from a column originally published on April 16, 2009. If April showers bring May f...
Editor’s note: Mr. Causey is under the weather. The following is mostly from a column originally published on April 16, 2009. If April showers bring May flowers, Mayflowers bring pilgrims and post-nasal drip. Get well soon Mike! sk
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! That said…
Imagine if just about everybody, male or female, in your office looked and acted like the boss.
Imagine a bureau or section where everyone bore a strange resemblance to the bureau head or section chief. Expand that to an agency staffed in large part by boss-like clones!
How about being denied leave to attend your brother’s funeral because you two “weren’t close.”
Picture yourself as a field or “remote” employee in an agency where headquarters picked your brain, took credit for your ideas but blamed you for not completing work assigned from Washington days, weeks or months after the original deadline.
How about getting chewed out on a regular basis for failing to have a hot breakfast waiting for the boss?
All of the above, and more, came bubbling up after a previous column about problem employees and problematic bosses. But the traffic was all one-sided! Lots of complaints about middle and top management, but none, so far, about the employee-from-hell or the weird guy in the next cubicle. At least so far.
And the worst, at least so far, came from feds based on their private sector experience or, would you believe it, time served on Capitol Hill as a congressional staffer.
Examples:
From Bad Bosses to Long Term Care Insurance
Today’s Your Turn with Mike Causey radio show (10 a.m. EDT right here on federalnewsradio.com) covers the waterfront. We’ll start out talking to Andrew Case, an authority on office politics. He’ll reveal the secrets of (legally) disposing of your boss.
After that, financial planner Ed Zurndorfer talks about LTC in general and then the premiums, benefits and changes coming in the federal LTC program.
If you’ve got questions or comments for either guest, email them to me at: mcausey@federalnewsradio.com
Nearly Useless Factoid
by Suzanne Kubota
LiveScience reports a new study from the University of Kansas and Gallup suggests that human beings “are optimistic by nature.” So we got that goin’ for us, which is nice.
To reach me: mcausey@federalnewsradio.com
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