What to do when you have a Shitty Boss...

Shitty Bosses.... Yeah, we've all had them.

Lt. Colonel Tall was a shitty boss although he was a tough S.O.B.....

Blake was a shitty boss - albeit, cool as hell...  

Michael Scott, too, but we loved him cause he was funny...

But, unfortunately,  most shitty bosses simply aren't this endearing, appealing or even threatening, they're just.... shitty.

Great leaders are born, but bad bosses are shat out into the world like a bathroom visit after a bad McDonald's meal.  The clean white porcelain order of your job is now defamed, defiled and soiled by this shitty boss defying you to wash them away but it's Sisyphean effort because there's always more shitty bosses to replace them.

So what do we do when we have a shitty boss?

Being a writer, I  look to the examples provided above.  All of these "shitty" bosses had another quality - Nick Nolte's Lt. Colonel Tall was as tough as nails with a chip on his shoulder due to his shitty boss.
Alec Baldwin was a demoralizing kick-in-the-nuts but he backed it up with that watch... Love him or hate him - he didn't care - the man made money and demanded you do the same.

Steve Carrel - harmless as he was ineffective - his office staff saw how harmless he was and could (along with all of America) just sit back and laugh.

These fictional shitty bosses - probably based on some real person - were sharpened and shaped by talented writers who had to dig deep to skillfully added or enhanced certain facets of their personality to make them dramatically or comedically more appealing.

That's the challenge facing any one who has a shitty boss... Dig deep to find the gold.

I know your endearing quality is here - somewhere....

Find your boss' appealing characteristic - a reason to root for them - you might have to make one up but go ahead, it's your boss - it's your story.

You get to create the character you would most like to see.    Are they just green and inexperienced because they've been assigned a position out of their capabilities?

"Would you like me to boss you around...?"

Are they too hungry for power, due to some injustice they've experienced in their lives or maybe they are just a harmless buffoon that needs to be taken less seriously and laughed at (in private) a little more.

Every shitty boss has the potential to be Nick Nolte, Alec Baldwin, Steve Carrel or whomever you wish.

Just dig deep, enhance that endearing quality and watch your shitty boss get flushed away from the toilet bowl you call your job.

And remember this one Hollywood truth:  Shitty bosses always get their "comeuppance" eventually.