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iwombat - 2007-10-13 14:14:39
I have had very few real bosses, unless every one of my clients is a provisional capo, but among my professional band gigs the best bandleader boss was Charles McCarty, who while being reliably competent (a very comforting situation)was also somewhat sardonic about the circumstances. Now that might seem like a negative quality, but it inoculated against what were the more usual emotional styles, frantic, egotistical, defensive... (band leaders, mostly nuts).
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grigorss - 2007-10-13 15:05:03
I'd have to say I have a tie in the best boss division -- between a woman named Mary, who managed the college bookstore I worked at in the late 80's; she was good at treating her employees like colleagues, rather than underlings -- a strategy I'd recommend for any potential boss out there. The other candidate would be a post-production supervisor (who shall remain nameless) for a company that I frequently work for -- he's good at shielding editors from the very crazy owner/C.E.O. of the company; and just sort of deals with an impossible job as well as anyone could.
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grigorss - 2007-10-13 15:08:32
P.S. -- I trust you'll share the All Time Top Twenty Movie list with us -- once you've reconfigured it, of course.
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Greg Fitti - 2007-10-14 00:58:09
My favorite piece of graffiti ever was on a concrete stanchion below an overpass when pulling into the Cold Spring train station on Metro North. In huge red letters it said: DAVID FINCHAM. HE'S FAT. Tickles me to this day.
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Greg The Slave Driver - 2007-10-14 01:29:47
I thought I remembered a best boss thread from about a year or two ago.
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iwombat - 2007-10-14 10:13:36
I have a favorite piece of graffiti, similarly, that you've reminded me of, on the Beltway North of DC, just as the Mormon Temple comes into view, in all of it's Oz-like spendor, on the overpass "surrender Dorothy".
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Bina - 2007-10-14 10:35:05
The boss I enjoyed working for the most was when I worked for a semester in the student cafeteria at college. The manager was this Jewish guy from Boston and he reminded me of a cute rodent pet. He was way cool though; he allowed me to not have to serve beer to customers because it was against my religion, years before people understood what Muslims were all about.
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DanWV - 2007-10-14 14:33:29
My first year working for the small newspaper in Welch, WV, my boss was a young guy my age. He didn't give a crap for the old-school sports fan. We cut national sports by half and gave high school girls the same coverage as the boys got. That was unusual in southern WV at the time, and a lot of the old men down at "Bobo's Barber Shop" really resented it. He also pissed off our coworkers one Friday afternoon by announcing, "Dan, I need a new radio for my car. Want to go with me to Charleston (a 4-hour trip)?" So we left, while the rest of the newsroom (not to mention the other departments) glared at us. Great guy. He left the next year, leaving behind a farewell column that compared the county to a "dying, aging whore." It nearly got us burned down.
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Jennifer - 2007-10-14 17:13:08
My favorite bit of graffiti appeared in the college library at Columbia. Scrawled on the door of a bathroom stall was a long list of alternating remarks, some in favor of the right to choose an abortion and some opposed. Near the bottom of the door, someone had written, "Where would you be if your mother had had an abortion?" The response?
"At Yale."
A little Ivy League humor there.
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Paula - 2007-10-15 11:05:34
Jenn: Ha!!
Greg: I believe we've talked about jobs before but not specifically "best bosses"--this topic is germane for me right now because I had a conversation recently with someone who told me she'd never had a good boss, ever, and I was curious how other people felt--and how people define "good boss."
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Mr Lojban - 2007-10-15 12:30:13
My favorite graffiti, for some reason, was always the "Smile when you say Brooklyn" at the Brooklyn Inn. I recreated it at Le Galway in Paris.
Never had a good boss, plenty of not-bad ones.
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