Bad bosses as a phenomenon

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(09-03-2020, 10:13 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: The reason there are a lot of bad bosses is obviously because they know they can get away with us because, thanks to right to work and at will legislation, they know that the law is on their side. When unions were stronger they usually had to have a just cause to fire somebody, even if you weren’t union. While some unions may have gone too far in protecting those they probably shouldn’t have, the axis now has been tilted too far the other way. We need to move towards a model where an employer would need a just cause to fire somebody. Yet no one is talking about this.

I see you brought this up in a different thread, pointing out that 'at will' is a uniquely American phenomenom. It ties into the idea of the U.S. being at heart an entrepreneurial, commercial society. I want to add another idea, which I recently encountered because I have been getting into personality types, which is that personalities who aren't people-oriented (colloquially, "assholes") tend to rise to the top in the corporate world. This could be exacerbated by the above feature of American life. However I should note that people-oriented personalities make the best middle managers, so there should be plenty of good bosses according to theories of personality type.