Which Would You Prefer?

[redstate_democrat]

You have a choice between two bosses/leaders. Who would you choose?


Choice #1

This boss has been in the company for years. He/She has always dreamed of being "the boss" and has criticized or what some would consider "back stabbed" other employees in his/her rise to boss status.
This boss has claimed to have several years of experience and throws that in the faces of other middle managers and lower employees. However, about 85-95% of this experience has absolutely nothing to do with his/her boss role.
This boss is not liked by a majority of the employees, managers, or clients.
This boss has often consulted with the competitor to the peril of your employer.
This boss has often made decisions which harmed your employer and your security in your job.
This boss conducts meetings in the most uninspiring way. All this boss does is "do the numbers", talk about the problems of the company, blame the competitor for all of these problems, blame you for some of the problems, and do the numbers again.
This boss doesn't understand how to do things "outside of the box". The status quo is all he or she knows.
This boss looks at a competitor and claims that it is wrong for the business world because it hasn't been in business long and doesn't understand the horrors of the business world.
This boss knows how the business is run and the problems it faces, but doesn't understand or have a desire to ask the stakeholders what should be done to fix the problems, partly because the boss thinks he/she has all of the solutions.
This boss carries a manual around with solutions to commonly faced problems within the company. This manual hasn't been updated since 1992.
This boss is plenty smart, but thinks and believes that a lot of the employees aren't as smart or smarter than him/her and therefore needs someone to micromanage them at all levels, even requiring that they eat a balanced lunch every day and submit proof to him/her in the form of a receipt or other form of proof.
This boss likes to hold long meetings to discuss the ins and outs of every minute detail of every minute procedure...things you could easily read in a manual or policy workbook.
Some employees wonder whether this boss has gotten to become boss because his/her father once was the boss. The boss is plenty smart, but you personally know about 30 to 40 other employees who should have gotten that promotion before the boss.
This boss throws a fit anytime something goes off track. You are scared to tell him/her the truth.
This boss changes goals/strategy/procedures often. You aren't sure which boss you're getting on a particular day.
This boss ridicules employees, competitors, and fellow managers to "inspire"
This boss thinks that the company needs him/her and he/she doesn't need the company.
This boss is okay, but you're thinking about quiting and heading over to that other new company where everyone is happy to go to work each day.
the company, under the leadership of the boss, has a high turnover rate.
The boss likes to criticize this competitor because its boss likes to give nice speeches every morning, encouraging the employees to do their best, keep hope, believe in themselves, and to trust one another. The boss thinks that is crazy talk and laughs at the thought of it.
The boss also likes to make excuses for the company's bad fourth quarter and tells the employees that the company has had to sell part of the company. The boss threatens lay offs due to the success of the competitor and your company's shrinking market share. This prompts the employees to give up their yearly raise. The boss says thanks and buys back that part of the company, and ends up making a profit as a result. Go figure.
The boss refuses to do any real modern marketing. The boss has continued the same marketing and packaging since the first boss. The boss sees no reason to change a thing. The packaging repulses many clients. The boss sits back and watches as the competitor markets to everyone- poor, middle class, wealthy, suburban, inner city, rural, from west to east and north to south, leaving no stone unturned. The boss prefers to market to the big, sure-thing, markets only.
The boss calls anything the boss doesn't agree with fantasy and impossible to do
The boss, on his/her last leg and after being threatened with termination, decides to attack this new competitor by calling its product dangerous, unhealthy, fraudulent, and misleading. The boss reminds the public that your employer is a known quantity, and although it has produced subpar products in the past, at least you know what you're getting and any attack by other competitors won't be as effective because you already know that the product is tainted.
You have a feeling this strategy won't work. You start working on your resume.

CHOICE #2

This boss is new and pretty damn smart. The company is new too.
Everyone tries to find out the "dirt" on this boss, but there seems to be none of much significance.
This company has a good product, but you're not sure if the public will buy it. You have a lot of work to do to get the public to believe in it and support it.
You learn that this boss doesn't really have a lot of experience being the boss.
The employees seem to like him/her.
This boss prefers to spend more time giving encouragement, inspiration, hope, and promises to change the way business is done in your town. This boss doesn't like the negative marketing/sub par product that has traditionally dominated the market.
This boss is successful with generating revenue for the company.
This boss sees no problem with meeting with competitors to try to change the negative campaigning in the business world.
This boss gives you a choice, you can eat your healthy lunch or eat the greasy cheeseburger, but it is your choice and if you want the healthy choice, the boss makes it available for you.
This boss likes to give nice speeches every once in a while. This livens up the workplace and makes people want to go to work.
This boss doesn't attack the competitor, unless the competitor says something about your company's product that is wrong. The boss only comes back with the facts.
This boss threw out the company manual and asked employees to work with him/her to create a new manual.
This boss believes that all ideas are important, not just his/hers, and even the competitors. The boss might not agree, but still believes everyone's ideas are important.
This boss has consistently done things outside of the box. This boss has rejected the status quo.
This boss has encouraged employees to tell him/her the truth and not worry that he/she will get angry or fire you.
This boss reacts quickly to problems.
This boss has the support of everyone on the team.
The turnover rate is almost non-existent. There is a two year waiting period for interviews.
This boss believes his/her job is to lead, provide a vision and mission for the company, rather than stand over your desk and tell you what to punch in on the computer. This boss has trusted that you will do your job and hold his/her feet to the fire if the vision/mission isn't being fulfilled.
This boss understands the value of talent and does not subscribe to hiring his/her loyal, long-time supporters and friends if they aren't qualified to do the job. This boss knows that hiring the best for the job is what's ultimately best for the company.
This boss tells the truth. He/she gives you the straight talk.
You have never seen this boss lose his/her temper. This boss always has a smile on his/her face.
This boss is extremely optimistic, but reminds the employees that there will be hard times and that with hard work, the company will overcome them.
This boss has managed to fight off three hostile takeovers from competitors who have been in the business for years...without breaking a sweat.
This boss wants everyone's business and doesn't care if you live in Podunk, Nowhere. This boss will come to your little town and ask for your business.
This boss has a track record of bringing people together for a common purpose because before this boss was the boss, this boss worked on a grassroots/smaller level to provide solutions for people needing solutions.
This boss is the boss, not because of connections and the "inside track", but because of his/her drive, hard work, and determination.
This boss wants to be the boss because he/she has a strong desire to create a great product and inspire the workers.
You are shocked to learn that this boss, just ten years ago, was a mere commoner, not in the business of being the boss, and wore shoes with a hole in them.
This boss has not conspired with the competitor to the detriment of the company.
This boss had the foresight to oppose a decision made by most of the business world that has harmed many people all over the world. Even though the boss opposed this decision when he/she was not the boss, the boss put his/her business career on the line by opposing that decision.
This boss, along with his employees, has dismantled the biggest business in town, not by negative marketing or sabotage, but by simply having a superior product. The boss doesn't take credit for herself/himself, but gives all the credit to you, the workers.



Who would you rather work for?

[babylonsister]

1. ROFL! That cartoon is precious! Bon soir, to breathe in this whole

post in the a.m. Thanks for posting it!

[cooolandrew]

2. Mr Obama, YES BOSS! *salutes*

[Muzza]

3. Bullshit...more pro-obama propaganda...

Perhaps if you provided a reasonably unbiased choice the question could be answered. But you are not capable of doing that. Another Obama love fest....YAWN.

[intaglio]

7. Perhaps if you had some facts or arguement other than

blind faith

[readmoreoften]

4. Perfect. A business metaphor for a corporate shill.

Hey genius: these people are our PUBLIC SERVANTS not our GODDAMN BOSSES.

[LeftCoast]

5. Straw man

Straw man
A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.<1> To "set up a straw man" or "set up a straw man argument" is to describe a position that superficially resembles an opponent's actual view but is easier to refute, then attribute that position to the opponent (for example, deliberately overstating the opponent's position).<1> A straw man argument can be a successful rhetorical technique (that is, it may succeed in persuading people) but it carries little or no real evidential weight, because the opponent's actual argument has not been refuted.<2>
Its name is derived from the practice of using straw men in combat training. In such training, a scarecrow is made in the image of the enemy with the single intent of attacking it.<3> It is occasionally called a straw dog fallacy, scarecrow argument, or wooden dummy argument.

[Muzza]

6. Exactly. It's a useless argument.