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My story: The effect of bad bosses

My story: The effect of bad bosses

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My story: The effect of bad bosses

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- Bad bosses can ruin your life because they control you for five days a week, they control your source of income, they've got a lot of power over you and they can really get you if you're not careful. I read somewhere that people join companies and they leave bosses. So the biggest reason why people leave an employer is because they had a bad boss. And in fact, I've made a whole course on types of bad bosses and how to deal with them. But let's have a quick look at bad bosses here, because from the career point of view, if you've got a bad boss, you can't let that stand in the way of your career. So let's just look quickly at why bad bosses are a problem. And then what can you do about them? And I can immediately think of four bad bosses I've had. So there was one I'm going to call Terry 'cause that was his name. And he said to me, when I left, he said, "It'll be the same everywhere, there's no point in leaving, every…

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