I had a boss who, well, you know how good bosses are supposed to be umbrellas and shock absorbers? He was the exact opposite. Whatever the fashion was in admi

I had a boss who, well, you know how good bosses are supposed to be umbrellas and shock absorbers? He was the exact opposite. Whatever the fashion was in admin, he would go along with it. We got this whole song and dance from him a few years back about the new performance ratings that sounded not entirely unlike stack ranking, and that "five" was the max rating, but you would never get a five, but you were expected to be a five, despite that you wouldn't ever get a five, in this bizarre, self-negating informational tidbit. I saw the hot-shit new-ish hire start revising his resume behind his eyes.