Clues that your boss is trying to bore you to death 1. My job is to generate leads for the salespeople. We don't have sales people. 2. After being fired illegally, a guy had to be rehired. His new job? Washing the same window again and again. He did that for more than two years! 3. We had a boss who gave three-hour lectures on dressing for success to young men who worked for him. Meanwhile, he walked around the hallway with his shirttail hanging out the back. 4. He insists on regaling me with tales of his wild days as an insurance salesman. Luckily, we have a ground floor office. 5. She says, "Come sit with me while I get my electronic calendar organized." Top ways to get rid of a bad boss 1. Do exactly what he tells you to do. Keep careful documentation for when he denies it. 2. We printed all his idiotic e-mail messages on the VP's printer and "forgot" about them. People are nosey. Use it to your advantage. 3. I asked my boss for his opinion in a meeting with his boss present. My boss made himself look so foolish he was gone the next day. 4. Wait till your boss's boss goes into a rest room stall. Pretending not to know he's there, you and an accomplice gossip about the rotten things your boss has been saying about his boss. Wash your hands and leave. 5. Everyone in the department referred headhunters to him. He got hired away not long after that. They even wrote a procedure for it should it be necessary to induce turnover again.