Get Rid of Your Incompetent Boss: 5 Tips for Dealing with Bad Bosses

Fire your boss! "This works out?" pleas e ask your question? Of course you can. Even if differently than you might think. Here are some tips.

When the team says: The ass has to go!

Firing the boss - that actually will in many Companys made. Not all the time, but fairly often. You rarely hear about it because hardly anyone talks about it. But if you're like me in the company of many Industries is on the way, you get something like that under the Hand with. For example, there is the eighteen-strong sales team of a medium-sized company that at some point gets fed up and says to the boss of the boss: "It's either him or us. If you don't dismiss our manager, we'll all resign.« That's an announcement! They dare! Really? Not really. Because in times of a galloping shortage of skilled workers, employees no longer have to buck, put up with everything or even prostitute themselves. Many people can now choose their job. Of course not all! If someone is dependent on your job, I won't leave them out in the cold either.

The Executive vom boss doesn't believe that an entire department would quit as a whole, but he knows that if even just the top five performers in this team leave the company, his will break Turnover by 40 percent - he knows the personalized sales figures. He hesitates for a few more weeks, but that Team remains hard and repeated on every possible and impossible opportunity: "That ass has to go!" So his supervisor finally transfers him to another division, to another location of the company.

Chef Hack 1: Announce him!

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Is it just you? Or does everyone, or at least the majority, in the team, in your department, think the boss is unbearable? Then bring it up to the boss with good reasons and repeatedly: The chances are good that he or she will be (punished) transferred or praised away after a few months. If you with the Term »Hack« (English, spoken: Hack) are unfamiliar: Das Internet is full of »Life hacks«, that is, from great Tricks and tricks that are much quicker and easier to use than the usual, official standard procedures Objective reached. Boss hacks do the same thing with insufferable bosses: they create fast, effective and field-tested remedy and improvement, often even a lasting one Solution.

In our example, the boss is a good boss from the boss. When the old boss is finally gone, he admits to the team: “I also saw that it was an ass. But he brought his numbers, and you always tracked. ”Until they stopped. Can't you do something like that? You don't manage to threaten with dismissal in a coherent and credible way? It doesn't matter. There are other ways to "fire" the boss: Put him in the penalty box. Put the boss in the penalty box! At a süddeutschen A media company says a seven-person back office team to the boss of its own team leader: “We only come to your team meeting if our team leader is not there. He's just keeping the meeting up by splitting hairs. ”The head of department doesn't take this seriously. Until the first meeting after this announcement.

Seeing the team leader walk in, the Upright Seven stand up and leave the meeting room as a body (they had calculated and coordinated this possibility). Since then, every weekly meeting has taken place without the team leader. The department head then always discusses the results between four people Eyes with him. For the duration of the jour fixe - an average of two hours - the seven of them basically gave notice to their own boss. Of course, you and I assume that in such uprisings the superiors concerned actually deserve the revolt. We would never use boss hacks on good bosses or bosses who just challenge us.

Boss hack 2: send the boss to the penalty box!

Tell the boss from the boss that in future you will come to his meetings without your boss. When the boss at your own Meetings also predominantly annoying: Discuss informally before or after the official meetings without him. In the coffee kitchen, in the material store, in the far corner of the courtyard. Just go!

Bert is a clerk and a real doer. He works to the full satisfaction his superior. What is the thanks for that? Of course: none. On the contrary. Because Bert gets rid of everything his boss bombards him with, the boss keeps bombarding him with more. Of course, plenty of it at the weekends too – which the boss explains in an absolutely logical way: “If Bert works on it over the weekend, then it’s always finished when I go to work on Monday morning Office come: we verlieren so no time!” What does “we” mean here? And what about Bert's family, weekend and personal time that goes into it? Doesn't interest the boss. Bert has been working this way for a good three years. So practically no family life. He used to have friends too. With the emphasis on "had". Because he constantly had to cancel joint appointments because of his 24/7 availability, his buddies no longer contact him.

He is socially isolated, exploited, frustrated and deprived of his private life. But he lets it happen to him because he's used to it and because it's hard to get out of shit once you're in it. As is so often the case in such cases, an aha experience comes to his aid: a shock in his body Everyday life opens his eyes. The shock comes when he lies in bed with a fever and chills two days before Christmas and the boss - by email! - still wants "something very urgent" from him, without even looking for his Health to inquire. That's the straw that broke the camel's back, say the Americans. That was the last nail in the coffin. After the holidays, Bert is resigning. 'For me,' he says, 'it was like finally giving the boss the finger. That felt good!” Now the boss is there. He'll never get someone like Bert again. Bert, on the other hand, did everything right: he's in a better place now.

Chef Hack 3: Just Go!

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90 percent of all chief victims hold out too long. Many think: "But I need the job!" Subject these thoughts to a reality check: Really? That one job? You have zero chance of someone else or even better? Have you ever seriously tried job applications? And you want to endure this stupid boss for how many years? in the Coaching or do-it-yourself, after this check, most people come to the conclusion: looking for something new doesn't hurt half as badly as this boss... Bert now works in a company where he – shockingly severe distress! – actually has to work occasionally on weekends. If, for example, a market analysis for a surprising development has to be drawn up very quickly, which his supervisor then discusses with the board of directors at 13 a.m. on Monday. The difference: In this company, the grandees from the carpet floor not only whine about the lack of skilled workers; they do something about it. They issued the official rule: »If you work for a job at the weekend, you don’t have to come to the office until XNUMX p.m. on Monday!«

Bert uses that. Bert likes that. You too? But you are not allowed to? Who says that? To be more precise: who banned it? That's a big hit, isn't it? Something like that is hardly ever banned because most bosses don't even think about it. But for example me. I've done it all my professional life. Whenever I had to spend weekend and therefore family time on work, I would call my boss - from my weekend to his weekend, of course - and say: »You have the analysis on the computer on Monday at 8 o'clock. I don't come to the office until the afternoon. If you need anything else, give me a call. "

Chef Hack 4: Weekend Work? Short Monday!

You have X hours for them on the weekend Company sacrificed? Then come X hours later on Monday. Announce this in advance by e-mail and offer the boss that he can reach you by phone if he needs something beforehand. Even if the boss is an idiot and forbids it: They tried it, they stood up for themselves.

That strengthens your self-esteem more intensely than a rear spoiler on the car or a visit to the hairdresser. I've had a lot of bosses, but not one who, in response to the announcement that I would be coming later on Mondays, would have said: "What do you think of!" To show up at the office, I told you the boss hack. Some dared to use it. Others don't. Those who didn't trust each other were always very frustrated: "But the boss has to offer that to me on his own initiative!" He doesn't have to. He only does this in the rarest of cases. I wouldn't wait for it.

Chef Hack 5: Train Chef Treatment!

Are you hesitant to tell the boss that you will be back later on Monday? That is normal! Everyone has. But one thing helps with everything that is new: practice. Before the Spiegel. Or with your partner. Role-play: "Boss, if I work for the company on the weekend, I'll come later on Monday!" You would never say something like that? Then change the wording until it »fits« you and you alone. And practice speaking it out loud and confidently until the phrase comes out fluently and convincingly. exercise makes the chief hacker.

If you use the boss hack 5 often enough, the boss will grant the short Monday at some point when the work is handed over and on his own initiative. Because you raised him to do it. Because he has learned something. Can bosses do that at all? Are bad bosses capable of learning? Can a notorious ass become a normal, good boss? Yes. I say this from my own experience.

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