Every job has stress, but the workplace environment can seem almost unbearable when working for an over-demanding or unfair boss.



You dont have to like your boss, but you do need to be able to co-exist and co-operate with him for you to be productive and successful at your job.


Other than a change taking place, as I discussed in the article Unhappy at Work? A Change is Coming, there is no perfect solution for dealing with a difficult boss, but here are five suggestions that might make your situation a little less painful.


#1) Think of your boss as a parent and you as his teenage child.


This sounds silly at first, but the relationship between you and your boss is very similar to that between a parent and child. Teenagers often have problems with authority and experience disagreements with their parents.

Meanwhile, parents often create rules the child believes to be unfair. If the situation gets bad enough, as soon as the child is old enough he finds a way to move out and make it on his own.


Parents arent perfect and neither are bosses – both will make mistakes.


#2) Do the absolute best job you can.

Sometimes the child misbehaves.


J. Paul Getty once said, The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.


Make sure you are the type of employee you would want working for you if you were the boss. I know this goes against the notion of revenge and tucking it to an unfair boss whenever possible, but by doing the best job possible you give the unfair boss less ammunition he can use to make your life miserable.


He also might think twice about upsetting one of his better employees when there are plenty of other, easier targets he can take aim at.


Dont draw attention to yourself. Unless you are the only one your boss has it in for, there should be plenty of others to draw his wrath away from you. Let someone else wear the target on their back.


#3) Learn all that you can from an unfair boss.

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