Do you like your boss? Dislike him strongly? Hate her? Love him? Love her more than platonically? Post your experiences here.

I like my boss. She does not know I have ADD. I meet her weekly to go over things I need to do. This was at my request. She has been very happy to do this.
Jim

My bosses are both fantastic. Neither knows I have ADD, although the bookstore manager suspects something like that I think, and I plan to tell her after the Christmas rush is over.

The companies that employ them both, however, leave a lot to be desired.

I think my immediate boss is awesome. He's an undiagnosed ADDer himself, even suspects that he has it! He's disclosed all his self-medicating history over time...and fits the ADD picture pretty well.

He has no idea I have ADD, but we get along great, and actually work quite well together.

Now...HIS boss...he's a whole other story...

My boss -- she's great....she gave me an absolutely lovely card....and seems fair and treats everyone very well.....But HER boss -- well that's another story....He's an angry, mean and moody person.....:(

Noone knows I have ADD...and I intend to keep it that way.....

I confess, I don't always get along very well with my boss. We are from two different worlds: I've got kids and am married, he's young, never-married, a real dynamo in the office. I'm a big picture, intuition and feeling, listen to other viewpoints kind of guy, he's a hard, fast, data, do-it-my-way-or-it's-wrong kinda guy. I'm not as good at follow-through... he excels at it and never misses a thing. I'm often late. He's never late. I think it's more important to make customers happy with us, and he thinks it's more important to show a yearly profit and hit quotas.

Plus, he's brash, arrogant, and has a very strong personality... and he's probably the best presenter in our company. I am less assuming, less confident, but still an exceptional presenter... but I come at things from a different angle than he does. He wants to climb the corporate ladder... and I'm looking for success, but don't want to move up. He wants to be on top, and I just want to make a comfortable living, provide for my family, and feel a sense of accomplishment.

So... we clash. Repeatedly. Over things like family, and work priorities, and deadlines, and follow-through.

Ugh.

That's kind of a bummer Eric....As they always say -- I'm sure he is in your life for a reason.......At some point, you will probably find some likenesses and common bonds.....:)

I'm in the Air Force and my comander is fantastic guy. He takes care of the mission and he takes care of us. I consider myself lucky to have such a good person leading my unit. That's the person I'm considering "my boss". My imediate supervisor is every bit as much a stand up guy, though. I got lucky. I recently had a horrible boss. Total personality clash, always suspicious, his way was the only right way... ect... He was good at his job and he did help me improve in some ways, but he stressed me out so bad I started grinding my teeth at night, and soon during the day. Have a good boss definately helps.

My last boss, I was recently fired, put little yellow sticky things all over my work. They usually contained some criticism of my work that usually I felt was unfounded or unfair.

Recently he forwarded some mail from my old office with a yellow sticky attached telling me take contact the sender and have my address changed as soon as possible.

I'm gonna get right on that for my old massa.

When I was working I had a real problem with authority so needless to say I hated them....but now that I am out of work I have the most awesome bosses of all time Me and my Mom:D!

I don't seem to do well at work alone unless I'm handed a deadline and given some structure, reminders and feedback. The best experiences I have had occurred when I was paired with someone who had complementary skills to mine. An example is that I have a real knack for dealing with angry or acting out people and my co-worker is a whiz with paperwork. It balances out.
These most helpful partners tend to be the people I have almost nothing in common with.
It took me awhile to realize that the people I found to be quiet, industrious, methodical (all things at which I suck) were my natural allies at work once I realized that one skill set isn't "better" than another. It's great that just a little thoughtfulness and recognition to such a gem (surprise cappucinos and little notes of appreciation, or a shoulder, if needed, remembering their favourite things) has saved my *** on a few occasions when I was overwhelmed and needing help.
I couldn't work in a formal environment without such a partner.
The good boss is a "hands off" person who is there when we need them and gone when we don't.

I cannot stand my boss. I have seen her verbally attack other employees in the hallway not only if front of other staff but in front of our resident's. Which upset's not only the employee;but, the resident immensly if you have ever worked in a long term care facility you know the resident's become very protective of their caretaker's.

She is completly oblivious to the needs and safety of the resident's as long as the bottom dollar is in the green, she doesn't care. Not only endangering their safety and mental health but that of the employee's.

Luckily, I've been on maternity leave for the past 10 weeks and she will be gone (WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO *does the party dance) before I go back to work.

My boss is a complete wally - he is rude, micro managing & unintentionally offensive to me, my team & his peers. He is a monument to the Peter Principle where people are raised to their level of incompetence. Looking on the bright side, none of this stuff is intentional on his part (I'd probably respect him more if it was intentional as that would indicate a strategy behind it all).

I'm very lucky - my boss is also a good friend of mine. This is the third place where we've worked together. He's not my immediate supervisor, but that guy is also a good egg. I enjoy a healthy and mutually respectful relationship with both of them.

And yes, they both know I'm ADD (dx'd in January). I felt they had a right to know since I was taking many days off for evaluations and Dr. appointments. I was a little nervous after reading some of the more unpleasant experiences of others here who've told their bosses', but they've been very supportive towards me.

What really helps is that I love my work (interactive web design and development) and I work with a great bunch of people. Sure, it gets nutty at times (we're a marketing agency), dealing with crazy deadlines, crazier clients, etc., but overall, it's one of the better gigs I've had.

Do you mean like as a personal basis or like as in managerial ability? my boss is a complete dink as a boss, when we all go to lunch its fun.

Originally posted by Lafnalot
Do you mean like as a personal basis or like as in managerial ability? my boss is a complete dink as a boss, when we all go to lunch its fun.

I mean "like"... as in, do you like him/her? It's an opinion. Not a measure of his ability.

Good deal!

I don't seem to do well at work alone unless I'm handed a deadline and given some structure, reminders and feedback. The best experiences I have had occurred when I was paired with someone who had complementary skills to mine. An example is that I have a real knack for dealing with angry or acting out people and my co-worker is a whiz with paperwork. It balances out.
These most helpful partners tend to be the people I have almost nothing in common with.
It took me awhile to realize that the people I found to be quiet, industrious, methodical (all things at which I suck) were my natural allies at work once I realized that one skill set isn't "better" than another. It's great that just a little thoughtfulness and recognition to such a gem (surprise cappucinos and little notes of appreciation, or a shoulder, if needed, remembering their favourite things) has saved my *** on a few occasions when I was overwhelmed and needing help.
I couldn't work in a formal environment without such a partner.
The good boss is a "hands off" person who is there when we need them and gone when we don't.

In my last job I could not stand either one of my bosses. One of them admired me because of my ancestors and all she wanted to talk about was how much she knew of them. She always claimed she wanted to befriend me. I became her friend, but she always had a problem with micro-managing, yelling at co-workers in front of customers, and "getting into it" with customers over books. She was a real egotistical, almost narcissistic person. She liked me even though I feel she unintentionally emotionally abused me and my co-workers.

She found out I had ADD (me and my big mouth), so one day she "kindly" told me, as she was showing me how to do payroll, how booksmart she was and how she had her IQ taken by a psycologist and it was 142.

She and her boss were constantly telling me how smart they were and she always had to have one up on me. It was like they were in a game of wits.

In a way though, I felt bad for her sometimes. I am a too nice sometimes person and I would always be there for her if she was having a bad day. No one else would do that since everyone didn't like her.

As you all know, some of us ADDer's have an intelligence ego, probably stemming from all those years in grade school. I have to admit, I have a serious ego problem when it comes to smarts. So they really got to me. I think they knew it. I would never say anything but nod my head and smile. I really admire educated people. But these bosses of mine were too much.

Now I am hired in a new job. I LOVE MY BOSS! He is so funny! He is an ex-police officer. Granted, I am brand new there and I haven't seen what he is like when he is angry (maybe he will turn green and muscular), but he seems real easy going. My co-workers are ex co-workers of mine. They all said he is great. This new job is for asset protection for a large retailer. My kind of job, my kind of people.

I am still in nursing school. I wonder how that mix of people will be....sorry that was so long winded!