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One of the best bosses I ever had (certainly in the top 3) was a black woman who NEVER backed down from protecting her people, and NEVER expressed ANY preference for any workers on her team.

By far, the worst boss was also a woman. Same company. Different department. She was insane. She would scream and yell at people for nothing, and let huge problems go. I was at the USPS. She let one of our guys come in and tell her that he’d accidentally sent out over 7000 copies of a major virus through the official antivirus e-mail account, and told him to just send out an e-mail correcting the problem. About 5 minutes later, she screamed at me and dressed me down for over 45 minutes because one document, not that I wrote, but that our document editors wrote, and I just approved and sent to the testers was rejected because it was a 51 page document on how to install the software I wrote, and on page 47, it was missing a period on one sentence.

Believe me, she was psycho, and I often was asked, since my cube was right outside her office, what her mood for the day was. She got pissed at me one time because I got 4 of the team fired. She blamed me and said whatever grievance I had with them, I should have gone to her, not their contract company (my company too). I didn’t have it in me to tell her that the reason I went to the company was they were, for about 3 months raucously ranting about her, rape fantasies, murder fantasies and bestiality fantasies and often combining them. I’d had enough. She tore me down in front of her boss and demanded that she be allowed to fire me. He told her no. When she quit a few weeks later, as I was walking her to her car, I told her why. Told her that I stood up for her, and that she’d humiliated and denigrated me for doing so. She cried and apologized.