how do bosses put down or insult people they do not like? those employees they do not like?

Answer 1

Are you looking for hints?

Answer 2

Not sure if you mean "how" or "why" Someone has already listed the "how" but the why is for many different reasons. You could ask why you like some people and not others. But at work, everyone - not only bosses - ought to remain professional and treat everyone the same. I've been a boss in the past, almost everyone who worked for me was a young woman and I had good relationships with all of them but one. I hope I was fair to her, but she was a cold, unsmiling, formal person. I tend towards the motherly, and I think it got up her nose. Perhaps I was unprofessional in that way. She could barely bring herself to speak to me in the end. I wish I knew what I had done to offend her, but I never will.

Twelve years on, I remain friends with three of these young women and it's been a joy to see them progress in their lives. But that cold girl hated me, and for whatever reason, I'm doubtless on her list of b*tch bosses. So the brief answer is, chemistry

Answer 3

Nice one Minimoto...but it would be good to learn why they are like that. Their 'upstairs suits' want results results results and insist the bosses on the shop floor take on an attitude to possess such results - this they do, but it turns out it's not that easy to change...they can't have, say, 75% - or even 90% nastiness and keep the friendliness of old for friends and workmates. They have to possess 100% scuzzery - and of course, as a result, they people they mildly didn't like in the first place are now given double-whammy insults - she/he needs to take the other side of the responsibility coin out on some poor bastard - usually the put-downs are loud and snarly...if only to show everyone (especially her/his top-draw personnel) she/he can 'do the job'...and why not do it to it more severely to people they saw as 'smart alecs' - or even worse, to old friends who orally express worry and concern at her/his harshness?
It may be a power trip to some - but been in jobs where some have been pushed by top draw executives...and if he didnae like it, it would be back to the blue-collars with around £7,000-£12,000 less per annum.

Answer 4

Leaving them out of important meetings, keeping information from them, etc.,

Be overzealous and pernickety when examining expense claims, etc.

Fail to consider them for promotion and make that obvious.

Set them up in power games against other colleagues - games they're unlikely to win.

Silly rules like 'what can you have on display on your desk,'

Call them nicknames and similar when they know they dislike it.

Set things up so that customers or other people in the organisation complain about them.

Fail to give them the resources needed to do the job.

(Where they can) be sexist, racist, make jokes about religion, etc.

Tell them off in front of other people - whether or not they're at fault.

Not letting them get away with the minor perks that other employees enjoy (e.g. personal calls at work, time on the internet, etc.).

Send them on training courses whose very titles are demeaning.

Timing toilet breaks, etc.

Will that do for starters? Hope you're not contemplating doing anything like this ... they have a way of coming back to haunt the one who commits them.

Answer 5

Because they are on a power trip,my old boss was so transparent and false,she said she couldn't understand why I didn't keep in touch when I left,but she stepped over the line when she was a ***** to my 10 yr old daughter.Some of them let their jon title go to their heads,usually the ones that are unhappy in their everyday life.

Answer 6

my boss has totally made me feel like s*** this xmas. we are a very small company, theres only 6 of us and everyone else has had a xmas bonus, maybe he thought i wouldn't find out ? new year new job methinks!!

Answer 7

i think that would be unprofessional and unproductive for the company