You must be a great boss...
Actually - I am. If you have had any experience in supervising government employees who have over 20 years of experience and are unionized and can't be fired for hardly anything less than capital murder - you might have some clue of what I go through.
If you haven't - believe me, you have no idea what it is like.
My employees like me and respect me - we generally get along just fine. Lock yourself in a brick building with no windows with 8 men and 200 menopausal women for 8 hours and see what happens.
Most problems are between employees - not between me and an employee. Hardly a day goes by without one of my staff in my office in tears, crying, "Kathy called me a bitch!"
I always want to answer back, "You ARE a bitch! ---- NEXT!!"
Obviously I don't. I am as caring and nurturing as a male can be - but believe me - its no picnic.