Business NH Magazine launched the Best Bad Boss Story competition in October with Editor Matt Mowry's stories of how own worst bosses. One winner each month will receive a $25 gift certificate. To enter your story, email it to TellUsYourBestBadBossStory@gmail.com. No identifiers will be used.
"I am a project manager for a small NH firm. I was assigned to a client
who is a Fortune 500 company ($35 billion in revenue in 2010). As the
project was nearing completion, I received an email response from the
client that read: "Thank you for all your efforts in bringing this to a
close... it is clear why you have earned such an outstanding
reputation!"
I forwarded the email to my project team with a congratulatory
message addressed to all involved, and cc'd the principals of the
company.
Unfortunately, my immediate supervisor (one of the principals) promptly
approached me and said, "You can print that email out, and stick it in
the file, but next time you screw something up on one of his projects,
none of what he said is going to matter."
Can I enter another story next month too?"