[GoodVibrations101]

I was reading this article about how insecure bosses get threatened by certain employees who have greater intelligence, creativity, and energy than the boss. And this article describes my relationship with my boss perfectly.

This the first part that accurately describes my boss:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/...wants-you-out/

"Fearful managers don’t build their employees up – they tear them down. Only docile and obedient sheep are welcome in fear-filled environments. If you are too vocal, too smart, too creative, or just too much like yourself instead of the corporate or institutional drone your boss wants you to be, watch out!" My boss did tear me down because I was not sufficiently docile and a "yes-person."

1. He kept me in the dark (along with other employees) about certain things like a couple employees quitting for new jobs. And things like a change in the academic schedule. And his hiring of his cronies.

2. He reassigned one of my important advisories to another teacher who he liked better.

3. He ignored me all the time. Every time I emailed him about an idea, or a problem, or a question, he ignored my email. I had to see him in person to get a response, and even then he wouldn't always respond in person either.

4. He needled me by bringing me down to his office about student concerns when he didn't do that to other teachers who were experiencing the same student concerns at the same time. He singled me out when other teachers were having similar issues with the same students.

5. He criticized me in public and fired me in the end. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/...wants-you-out/

[reb569]

Unfortunately, there are a lot of managers out there who are like that. I just spent several months "under-the-thumb" of a control freak boss who made my life a living hell. He tried to blame me for his error to a working group, and when I stood up to him in the same environment for it, he told me to never contradict him. He was let go several weeks after that. The working group included some co-workers in another division that had been through the same thing with him and they backed me and their supervisor backed me.

Anyway, my boss now is totally the opposite. Unfortunately, a new manager is being hired who will end up being my supervisor. I'm hoping he chooses well.

I am sorry you got fired and were treated this way. You deserve far better, and I hope your next boss builds you up and treats you with all the respect and honor you deserve.

I went through this myself with my current boss and took four and a half months off because of her bullying. Now she can no longer bully me, but I am hardly as energized and as vocal or proactive as I used to be with her.

It is good that you are reading articles about this kind of boss. It helps to understand the situation, why they are the way they are and what happened exactly. (((((Hugs)))))