When your Boss is Insecure

When your boss is insecure you will have an experience of a lifetime. All you do is never good enough and you will forget what it is to feel good (personal experience... boss). So, this boss of yours is the one who will call you at 5 pm on a Friday and ask you to finish some task, no deadlines mind you. Saturday evening call says why there is no mail, okay actually call is better it can just be a mail which you might not check for hours, all technology fails here. Mind you more reminders awaited till 12 on Saturday night. You finally check your mailbox to see 10 reminders for a task which had no deadline and you will just think, you still cannot get an answer, why there are no calls or WhatsApp message or SMS for anything so important. Trust me this is not it, there is more to come. You will not know what, how & why you will do something or not do it, because you can't ask him he is always busy and nobody knows what you are doing at office.

Coming to daily schedule if you are in this position, travelling in the heat and sweat to your office only to realise not much has to be done today. You feel Oh Great! I will just spend time doing something on my own, maybe watch some YouTube videos, the time refuses to pass and even the most interesting things look mundane. Then you wait for lunch, and the tea breaks which gives you some movement time, most importantly human contact. OK still there are 4 more hours to go, you call your boss to know what's happening and how you can be a part of the project which is going on, he is busy as usual and your call is not answered. Call your teammate or if you are lucky someone around you might be the right person to talk to, they kind of ignore you because they don't want to offend 'The Boss'. Hmmm... now what to do. You should never leave hope, try mails and motivational messages on WhatsApp, try connect. Maybe you forgot this might seem like taking over the boss's position and yes even if he doesn't feel so there is always a Narad Muni who will let him know, so you are screwed even more. So you are stuck in the vicious circle (worse than Abhimanyu's Chakravyuh). 

What to do now???? GET A NEW JOB (it was a simple one)

It is said you should choose your boss and not the job, not easy or possible. Honestly if he or she is truly capable they are not boss anymore, they are managers or better leaders. The choice of people for most jobs is either on educational qualification or worse just sucking up. There is hardly any grooming or training to become a team leader, and when you turn out to be a threat to such people because their capabilities are limited, they just are insecure and what happens is history. Okay changing jobs everyday is just not possible or telling someone the reason of an insecure boss makes you look like a vamp (the nation has become very intolerant... He he he). So, before you decide to join a job try meet the reporting manager have a chat, the vibes from him or her will give you the comfort of making a decision, honestly if they are not good managers you can make it out (I can tell you what to look for... but that would be private sessions on chargeable basis :P).

PS: All views are personal and might not hold true for all