I had one boss who was incredible. He let you do your own thing as long as you got results, and he worked his way up from the bottom. He detested meetings and

I had one boss who was incredible. He let you do your own thing as long as you got results, and he worked his way up from the bottom. He detested meetings and preferred to just drop by for a few minutes a week to make sure we were happy. He never bothered us about logistics, and we never told him what he wanted was unfeasible, mostly because he knew exactly what we could and could not deliver. Contrast that with my current boss. He is leader of a failing group and knows it. He cannot relate to us because he spent so much time away from coding. He asks unreasonable demands in impossible timelines. He has no concept of how long it takes anyone to do anything. He loves meetings and fills up his schedule with as many as he can. He refuses to engage in "laissez-faire" management and constantly demands status updates, often in writing. Guess why I am quitting. Guess which boss I am returning to when I quit.