We’d like to thank all of you who wrote in to help us come up with some new examples for our Bossary. Here are the winners:
The PTP (Past Their Prime): Working for this person will open tons of doors for you in the industry- if you’re sixty-five. This boss used to be a hotshot, but now he has no real projects to work on and gets stuck in a corner office because everyone at the company is too scared to force him to retire. Instead of getting hands-on experience in your field, you get to bring him coffee six times a day while he lectures you about how this business just doesn’t have integrity anymore.
Winning suggestion: Martin Landau as Bob Ryan on “Entourage,” submitted by Taylor M
The Micromanaging Jackass: This one is fairly self-explanatory. Did you put everything in alphabetical order? Well, you should have also color coded it. You can’t take lunch until they do, you’re shackled to the desk all day so clients don’t have to go to voicemail (especially when the second assistant is out sick), and they ask you to report on gossip among the assistants. Who was at the happy hour last night? How much did they drink? They might be reading your email, but you shudder to think it, especially because you’re so busy drawing a color-coded diagram of their brand-new camera because they can’t be bothered to read the instructions.
Winning suggestion: Bill Murray in Scrooged, submitted by Mike. A close runner up was “My Boss,” submitted by basically everyone.
Don’t worry if you didn’t win this go-round. We’re still looking for the perfect media or TV example of The Martyr.
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