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Sulphureous Bosses

I hate to be called Boss! Maybe because I was good at Latin and it sounds exactly like... "bos". We, in Romania, have a deep-rooted typology of “Chief” in our culture. Servility is a side effect of many decades of communism and dependence on the goodwill of others. I see many people's egos inflated by their work position like a paradoxical balloon that only contains a void. It is the result of promotion in important positions of a very special type of person. The “unfinished”, as I call them. People that bring with them too many personal frustrations and who, once fixed in higher chairs, metamorphose into not very enlightened despots. I have witnessed these changes many times and taken action when it was up to me. It is specific to smaller, family-owned companies, where nepotism is... natural, but it also exists in large corporations. There is no future for Bosses... I don't think the species will survive.  The communication, the standard of living, and the infrastruc...