The wildest requests bosses have made to their employees: 'He would just drop the kid's assignment on my desk and expect me to do it'

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• A common sign of a boss who has a deluded sense of self-importance or just doesn't know how to manage is that they will make unreasonable requests of their employees. One of the most important qualities in a manager is understanding the professional limits of other people that they work with, and treating them with the required respect while doing so.

  Naturally, bad bosses usually bypass this logic and can have some strange ideas about what employees will be willing to do for them as a result. At least the most outrageous tasks make for an interesting story, and a warning not to tolerate certain kinds of behavior in the workplace.

   

• What's the most unreasonable request you've received from your boss?

  
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