Here are some boss stories from Herald readers to help celebrate today’s National Boss Day:
Julie Brown of Everett lost a job because her boss thought she was bringing something inappropriate to work: a black aura.
“She said that every time I entered the office something bad would occur and the day would be ruined,” Brown said.
Her boss left the message on her home answering machine.
Brown, now employed elsewhere, has her an opinion about the situation: “She is the one with the aura problems, whatever the color may be.”
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A few years after retiring from teaching, Sid Stevens of Marysville went back to school and earned a principal endorsement.
An internship at a reservation in Montana was his first assignment. At first, the school board members and superintendent interviewing him were reluctant to hire him.
“They said I appeared soft and they wanted someone strong,” he said.
Three days into the new job he tried to be just that, confronting a group of students leaving campus during lunch.
“Who in the hell are you?” the teens told him.
The next day he asked the superintendent for a title so he could flex some muscle and enforce school policy. Her response: “No!”
He left and never returned.
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Kenneth Weigel of Edmonds said he has never had abad boss.
He worked for IBM, a company which had its employees fill out anonymous opinion surveys on bosses.
The company shared the results with the entire department and the bosses.
If any bosses were bad, they didn’t stick around long, he said.
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