About what percentage of bosses have you worked for have been utterly incompetent and/or stupid?

[MCheetah]

How many of your bosses were utter morons or idiots? Or were people who were completely and utterly unfit for the positions they were in and rightfully should've been fired.

Note: Do not include bosses you hated or were mean, but still did their jobs well. Only the bosses who sucked at their jobs or were just stupid in general.

I'd say about 75% with me overall, but less so here in Korea. Out of four teaching jobs here, one was an idiot and she refused to take criticism, one was semi-competent but in over her head and had no leadership experience, and two were good bosses.

100% - EVERY boss I've worked for were incompetent or unfit for the position.

70 to 90% - Most of the bosses I've worked for were incompetent or unfit for the position.

50 to 60% - Half of the bosses I've worked for were incompetent or unfit for the position.

30 to 40% - Some bosses I've worked for were incompetent or unfit for the position.

10 to 20% - Few bosses I've worked for were incompetent or unfit for the position.

I've never had a stupid or incompetent boss before.

I've never had to work under anyone before.

[sunflower00]

Most of them. The only good boss I’ve had was my current one - he can be mean, arrogant etc. but he is a good boss overall.


The other ones have mostly been terrible. I had one when I was younger working as a waitress who had never had experience in the job, and when they ran out of vodka she poured a different type of alcohol into the vodka bottle and pretended it was vodka and served it to customers…🚩 She did end up being fired after this as it’s obviously illegal and could hurt someone. She also used to brag about having power, and one occasion when we had a wedding on an experienced staff member (who was about 16, but much more experienced than the boss and was very mature for her age) suggested we should operate it the same way that we always did which was effective - but the boss said ‘no, I’m the boss now and we will do it how I want’. It was a disaster. Everyone got food at different times, the bride was mad, we ran out of food!!! Even though it was pre-booked, wrong orders, food at wrong tables, etc. she was the worst one

[1GoldTwins]

Maybe about 30 %? I have had good bosses and few clowns.

[HighlyVolatile]

25%-30% in my estimate. I discount the most authoritative types. I had James Cameron as a boss and I don't include him in one of those. Because he might be the most authoritarian and the most demanding of all bosses but he knows how to delegate still.

But the worst bosses don't even do that. They don't know what they're doing. You see a horrible boss at a workplace and the whole team is fighting because everyone is trying to lead in behalf of the absence of a leader. He/she blames everyone. They're always looking to do anything but fix themselves. They lack accountability.

[HighlyVolatile]

Like this. Horrible bosses aren't even horrible people, necessarily. Sometimes horrible people are even way better leaders. They're just so incompetent at leadership. You find a team in turmoil and a boss who can't take responsibility for it and that's the truly horrible boss. You can't measure it based on their cruelty or what they do. You measure it on what they don't do.
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[jamesgoldman]

None mostly because I'm my own boss but even the few other I have worked for were good in fact only one was occasionally problematic but that was rare

[susie22]

Since I graduated College and got my current job, I've had really great bosses, they've taught me a lot and let me learn at my own pace with their support.

[Avicenna]

I'd say 10% or so. I guess I've been pretty lucky to have good or at least mediocre bosses.

[Anonymous]

None. Thankfully all the bosses I've had so far have been good.

[ShadezMcgee]

I would say about half of mine.

[exitseven]

I only had one. He left before he was fired.

[Fuentes]

70-90 lol i only had a few smart bosses.

[JesseJayNeak]

Not that I know of