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Tuesday, April 03, 2007
10 Things Your Boss Hates About You
lifehack.org: "Think you’ve got it bad at work? Your boss might have more to complain about than you. Where you may have one person to direct all your angst to, your boss has many."
I think this points really apply in the theatrical environments. I think these qualities does not immediately make the bosses hate you, but it slowly builds up to the point where you are being fired. You are late once, no big deal. You start calling your boss your "buddy," boss puts up with it for a while. Then you are lying about stuff, and that will probably tick boss up. I realize all of us have all these qualities, but it's all about controlling and not letting it out wildly at work places.
I would agree with Jeannie on this. Everything apples to the theater as well and they are all helpful hints for things not to do. If people don't like you then they won't ever hire you so these are quite useful.
lack of initiative and passion and being uninterested are pretty big things.. it sounds like someone is in the wrong field if their boss can clearly recognize these things. Why would you make it apparent to your boss that you want their job? Sounds like a bad career move there. To jump off of Jeannie, in theatre we do so much collaboration, that it is vital that we all get along, so i feel as though it is important to watch out for things like this as we launch into our theatrical careers.
Hmmm...thats an odd list. How can you judge if you have too much iniative? or too little? I get that bosses have a right to be unhappy with their employees, but the example giving was a little sort pathetic. Boo hoo you have to remind an employee of a basic proceedure. Yes, it would be nice if they could remember everything you told them, but I would personally have them ask than not feel comfortable enough to do so and messing up.
Wow, just. Wow. That applies SOOO much to crew. That's really brilliant. Some of the stuff doesn't, like the whole, "wanting the job" thing doesn't apply to much to actors on a run crew, but it can definitely be applied to the production situation here or in another theatre. Everyone always wants everyone else's job. It's the way you move up in theatre, but I don't know why anyone would be idiotic enough to parade it around.
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I think this points really apply in the theatrical environments. I think these qualities does not immediately make the bosses hate you, but it slowly builds up to the point where you are being fired. You are late once, no big deal. You start calling your boss your "buddy," boss puts up with it for a while. Then you are lying about stuff, and that will probably tick boss up. I realize all of us have all these qualities, but it's all about controlling and not letting it out wildly at work places.
I would agree with Jeannie on this. Everything apples to the theater as well and they are all helpful hints for things not to do. If people don't like you then they won't ever hire you so these are quite useful.
lack of initiative and passion and being uninterested are pretty big things.. it sounds like someone is in the wrong field if their boss can clearly recognize these things. Why would you make it apparent to your boss that you want their job? Sounds like a bad career move there. To jump off of Jeannie, in theatre we do so much collaboration, that it is vital that we all get along, so i feel as though it is important to watch out for things like this as we launch into our theatrical careers.
Hmmm...thats an odd list. How can you judge if you have too much iniative? or too little? I get that bosses have a right to be unhappy with their employees, but the example giving was a little sort pathetic. Boo hoo you have to remind an employee of a basic proceedure. Yes, it would be nice if they could remember everything you told them, but I would personally have them ask than not feel comfortable enough to do so and messing up.
Wow, just. Wow. That applies SOOO much to crew. That's really brilliant. Some of the stuff doesn't, like the whole, "wanting the job" thing doesn't apply to much to actors on a run crew, but it can definitely be applied to the production situation here or in another theatre. Everyone always wants everyone else's job. It's the way you move up in theatre, but I don't know why anyone would be idiotic enough to parade it around.
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