As unforgiving as these fields may be, the dog-eat-dog cultures in these industries persist because they are allowed (and encouraged) to persist by those at their pinnacle. They are permitted to persist in their tyranny because they are, when it comes down to it, very good at their jobs and underlings put up with it because it does a career good just to be working in their shadow.īut this can’t be the only way. These tyrants often believe, or at least profess to believe, that it is good for their subordinates to be exposed to this kind of treatment in order to “toughen them up” for work in one or another tooth-and-nail industry. The Devil Wears Prada (2006), 20th Century Fox These bosses feel it is their prerogative to make unreasonable demands of their underlings and think it is unreasonable for those underlings to be anything but delighted to serve them or anything but brilliantly successful in attending to their boss’s needs (or whims). Think: Buddy Ackerman (played by Kevin Spacey) in Swimming with Sharks or Miranda Priestly (played by Meryl Streep) in The Devil Wears Prada. They are perfectly willing to ruin your life to get what they want and they expect you to be grateful for letting them do it. This is the boss that usually takes the crown when it comes to horrible bosses. Here, we take a look at what some of the most notorious bosses in film teach us about what not to do. #Boss of bosses movie tv#Though the situations portrayed in film are often exaggerated (few of us would plot to kill our bosses, however often we may dream of their demise), movies and TV shows about workplace dynamics can sometimes be very truthfully reflective of the challenges we face, both as employers and as employees. They say that art reflects life, and when it comes to how we perceive our workplaces, this is often true.
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