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Claim authority, usurp your boss
Is it that time of year already? Indeed it is. The sun comes out and it's dodgy survey time!
Thanks to Planet Recruit for: "Can you beat the boss? 90 per cent of IT professionals think they can".
"A survey of 500 jobseekers has found that 62 per cent of people think they could do a better job than their boss," it says. "This figure rose to as much as 90 per cent among technology candidates."
The release gives us a three-point plan to ease the frustration. You need to volunteer for extra work, be flexible in the work you take on, and (you guessed it) maybe look for another job using a job board.
It strikes us that the first two suggestions are exactly what an incompetent boss would want you to do.
Don't be a defeatist. If you're really smarter than your boss, our three pieces of advice are: 1: Make clever comments in meetings that he doesn't understand; 2: Systematically bad-mouth him to senior management; 3: When things go wrong for him, suggest that he uses the job board instead.
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