How to Be a Bad Boss

Anyone can be a good boss, but it takes a special type of person to be really bad boss. You have to be disrespectful, arrogant and inconsistent and you have to make your employees feel uncomfortable. Make sure you follow these steps if you want to be the worst boss there is.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Disrespect your employees. Be sure to give them grief when they want a day off or need to leave early for a personal appointment. A bad boss doesn't respect his employees' personal time and life outside of work.

2. Talk down to your employees and treat them like children. Let them know you're the boss with your authoritarian attitude. Be sure to give a lot of orders and make sure your employees know you're in charge.

3. Give preferential treatment to some employees. Be obvious about this so that those who are not your favorites will feel uncomfortable.

4. Refrain from giving your employees any positive feedback about their job performance. Giving positive reinforcement boosts employees' job satisfaction, and a bad boss would never do this.

5. Set unrealistic goals or no goals at all. If you give your employees attainable goals toward which to strive, you're making them comfortable and not being a bad boss. Keep them guessing about what you need them to be doing.

6. Be inconsistent in your rules. If taking a 10-minute break in the afternoon is OK one day, it's not OK the next day. Make sure you set and change rules often.