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Sounds like you've got quite a day in store for you!

My boss is being targeted by his bosses and he, in turn, is coming down on us. He's basically an incompetent boob who doesn't deserve his position. Actually, our department doesn't even need a Director...we managed for 9 whole months without one, but they still hired him for some reason.

He's one of those people who thinks he can lead a team after only reading a few books on management skills. It's really funny actually. We can tell when he's read a new management book over the weekend by the catch-phrases he uses on Monday mornings. Yesterday, he was using his "Alpha-Male" voice, so we think he must have read something by Tony Robbins over this past weekend.

We have absolutely no respect for him whatsoever, and he knows it. He tries so hard to "lead us", but we're always 2 steps ahead of him with everything that our department needs to do. So, to compensate for his lack of leadership skills, he assigns us these ridiculous, illogical, time-wasting, BS tasks that amount to nothing. It really is quite a circus!

So, some of us got together and made our concerns known to his bosses, and now the heat is coming down on him. He was in rare form yesterday...flipping out over the littlest thing, and assigning us the most redundant work to do in addition to what we already do!

Really, I love my job, but not recently. Something will have to give before this situation gets better. We're hoping he quits before they fire him...as firing him will take an insanely long time.

My boss is being targeted by his bosses and he, in turn, is coming down on us.

This happened at a place I had a great time working.... My better-than-average boss at the time gave us all a pep-talk... He had two problems.... His superiors were out to get him, and his staff was sniping and tattling on each other. He said "Your job as a department is to protect me from the outside, and protect each other from me." I think it is a pretty good teambuilding strategy myself.... and for him, it worked. For a time. He was a mover and shaker and he didn't last long there, but when he left, so did we.