Word: bossed
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...PLAYED THE GROWNUP WHEN your boss dropped by your desk and, without so much as a "Good morning," disemboweled your latest departmental memo. You nodded, scribbled notes, praised his constructive criticism. Now, too peeved to concentrate, you phone a colleague and let your inner child rage. Grrrr. Insensitive troglodyte. Unappreciative bonehead. Grrrr. There, you feel better. Back to work...
Just as you're beginning to see that your boss's critique was not so off base, he suddenly reappears, demanding to know what you meant by "troglodyte"--a word he intercepted while monitoring your phone line. Now you've got a real problem...
...Finally, bosses gathered in "round tables" of 15 or 20 people to debate the fate of individual employees, each represented by the employee's supervisor or the supervisor's boss. About 300 round tables were held company-wide through November and December; some are still going on. Says an AT&T manager: "On the whole, people felt it went well, that the right people were selected. But there were voices of dissent. You needed to have a good mentor selling your case, some said. And the chess game hasn't stopped. There are rumors that a lot of the slotting...
...York City to help announce that the club had signed pitcher David Cone. A week later, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner offered Butcher his job back, but Butcher declined. This was the 11th time Steinbrenner had fired Butcher. Apparently a man can take only so much. The Yankee boss has now gone through a dozen p.r. men. All 12, oddly enough, quit...
...list of powerful foes that would make lesser men pack up and leave town. He has enraged the tobacco industry, the vitamin industry and the medical-device industry. A self-described Republican, he has alienated most of Congress's Republican majority, including Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, his former boss and mentor. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has called him a "bully" and a "thug" and accused him of using "Stalinist" tactics...