A good salary, interesting duties and decent benefits may not be enough to retain an employee if that person has to deal with a bad boss, finds a new Monster Canada survey.
Just under half of all Canadians – 42% – have left jobs because they could no longer stand their bosses, the poll found.
“People seek new roles for a variety of reasons, but quite often people don’t leave their jobs; they leave their bosses,” said Monster Canada director of Marketing Sheryl Boswell.
“The daily experience in any workplace can vary greatly from person to person – all it takes is one negative working relationship with a boss to make work unbearable. This is even more pronounced for those who might already feel unappreciated or frustrated in their current role.
“This can also be a source of tension for the entire workplace, impacting productivity and morale.”
There is more than one way for a boss to make employees miserable, the survey found.
The most common bad boss, according to responses, was an overbearing micromanager, with 31% of respondents saying they’ve had to deal with employers who are always hovering around and asking for status updates.
In second place was the “incompetent buffoon” boss (27%), who can’t make strategic decisions and is ineffective and clueless.
Twenty seven per cent of those surveyed say they’ve had to deal with “Jekyll and Hyde” bosses who say one thing and mean another and then get mad when employees don’t read their minds.
Other horrible bosses include the “glory hog” (23%) who takes credit for others’ work, and the abusive tyrant (22%), for whom nothing is ever good enough.
