A recent survey by the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas out of Chicago found that after surveying a gazillion employees (workers) out there, low and behold 73% of you said that it’s your boss who’s to blame for your lousy feelings at work. And 20% of you lied because your bosses were watching you take the survey and 7% of you went running to your bosses saying “how do you think I should answer this question?” Okay, just kidding on the last two percentages of the survey but it’s clear (and I’ll say since they were first invented) that bosses are the chief source of frustration and poor morale at most companies. So, before you decide to run your own show, be sure to read the attached article.

Need some great ideas on writing that resignation letter you’ve been procrastinating about? Check out this letter a writer named “D” wrote to their boss “J” as they left their employ; it’s hilarious.

‘Dear J.

After four years of listening to your hillbilly ass go on and on about things about which you have NO freakin’ clue, I’ve had enough. Please read on.’

Have you noticed something lately? If you’ve been working for longer than a month, you’ve likely encountered a bad boss or a boss from hell in your career. Why is it such big news these days that there are bosses from hell out there? Seems like there’s a lot of boss stuff being written on the internet (How To Handle The Boss From Hell), in magazines and in newspapers regarding the bad bosses out there. Now it could be just because of Ken Lay of Enron, or the character Meryl Streep plays in the new movie The Devil Wears Prada giving bosses a bad name, or it could just be that the bad boss cycle has come around again in this hot economy and people are looking for something better from their work environment. And employees are complaining to anyone who’ll listen. Seems like companies aren’t listening much on their way to their bank accounts. So how do you, a lowly employee (the key cog in getting all the real work done), deal with a socalled boss from hell? You know the one everyone’s talking about, the micro-manager, the meanie, the can’t make a decision guy, the brown-nosing gal, etc.? Well, the real issue at play in any boss-subordinate relationship is “control”. Seems obvious doesn’t it? They have it and you don’t. But the truth is—we all have control—we just need to learn how to give it so that both ourselves and the Receiver can benefit from it. Let me explain.