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• Love brownnosers, tattletales, and relatives who report to them. They choose favorite employees and cover up and make excuses for the poor work of their incompetent favorites.
• They ignore selected people and discriminate against many employees. They tend to give their favorites better schedules and assignments, more attention, and pal around with them outside of work.

• Bad bosses change their minds frequently leaving employees off-balance, change expectations and deadlines frequently. Employees have trouble knowing where they stand and whether they're meeting expectations. Employees fail to feel a sense of accomplishment when expectations don't exist.
• Fail to communicate, and may not even have clear expectations, timelines or goals. 
• Use disciplinary measures inappropriately when simple, positive communication would correct the problem. Bad bosses ignore employees until there is a problem, then pounce.
• They seek out the guilty when they want to correct a problem.
• Speak loudly, rudely, one-sidedly to staff. Bad bosses don't provide the air time for staff to respond to accusations and comments. They intimidate people and bully staff. They allow other employees to bully employees.
• Take credit for the successes and positive accomplishments of employees. They are equally as quick to blame employees when something goes wrong. They throw employees under the bus loudly and in public.
• Fail to provide rewards or recognition for positive employee performance.

These six were the top bad boss characteristics cited by readers.  

• *Is not qualified for the boss job by either skills or experience. The bad boss doesn't know how to lead and interact effectively with people.
• *Will not let go of problems or mistakes. The bad boss returns to discuss negative events continually and searches for faults in employees.
• *Will not accept constructive feedback and suggestions for improvement. The bad boss can't deal with disagreement from employees who have their own opinions about work-related issues.
• *Lacks integrity, breaks promises, and is dishonest. Bad bosses make up stories when they don't know the answer to an employee's question and they are too lazy to find out.
• *Does not have the courage to deal with a difficult situation despite knowing that it is the right thing to do.
• *Causes dissension among staff members by his or her actions and comments.
•  [Susan M. Heathfield-Updated April 25, 2017]

Perfect...

Since reality doesn’t support their grandiose view of themselves, narcissists live in a fantasy world propped up by distortion, self-deception, and magical thinking. They spin self-glorifying fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, attractiveness, and ideal love that make them feel special and in control.  

A narcissist’s sense of superiority is like a balloon that gradually loses air without a steady stream of applause and recognition to keep it inflated. The occasional compliment is not enough. Narcissists need constant food for their ego, so they surround themselves with people who are willing to cater to their obsessive craving for affirmation.  

Narcissists expect favorable treatment as their due. They truly believe that whatever they want, they should get. They also expect the people around them to automatically comply with their every wish and whim.  

Narcissists never develop the ability to identify with the feelings of others—to put themselves in other people’s shoes. In other words, they lack empathy.  

Narcissists feel threatened whenever they encounter someone who appears to have something they lack—especially those who are confident and popular. They’re also threatened by people who don’t kowtow to them or who challenge them in any way. Their defense mechanism is contempt. The only way to neutralize the threat and prop up their own sagging ego is to put those people down.  

Lucky...

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) involves a pattern of self-centered, arrogant thinking and behavior, a lack of empathy and consideration for other people, and an excessive need for admiration. Others often describe people with NPD as cocky, manipulative, selfish, patronizing, and demanding.

Grandiosity is the defining characteristic of narcissism. More than just arrogance or vanity, grandiosity is an unrealistic sense of superiority. Narcissists believe they are unique or “special” and can only be understood by other special people. What’s more, they are too good for anything average or ordinary. They only want to associate and be associated with other high-status people, places, and things.

Narcissists also believe that they’re better than everyone else and expect to be recognized as such—even when they’ve done nothing to earn that recognition. They will often exaggerate or outright lie about their achievements and talents. And when they talk about work or relationships, all you’ll hear is how much they do, how great they are, and how lucky the people in their lives are to have them. They are the undisputed star and everyone else is at best a bit player.

The Answer...

What is the right answer?

Brett...

 

A woman, unidentified, accuses judge Brett Kavanaugh of trying to force himself on her during a party in his school in the early 1980s.

The New Yorker report says the woman claims Kavanaugh and a friend increased the volume of music to conceal an outcry from her, and that the judge covered her mouth before she got away.

Kavanaugh said in a statement, conveyed by White House spokesman : "I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time."

The sexual misconduct allegation surfaces as Republicans move through confirming Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice.

Not again...

One of President Donald Trump's most vocal opponents is creating a political war machine to take on the commander in chief  re-election in 2020.

Bill Kristol, who served in the administrations of Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, says his nonprofit organization Defending Democracy Together is seeking a GOP candidate to run against Trump in 2020.

"People aren't going to say they will run against Trump unless they have the infrastructure but I've been trying to persuade people that it may not be that difficult," he added.

Kristol,  explained that he's organized a coalition of activists who are polling voters and meeting with focus groups in swing states such as New Hampshire.

Kristol is also readying a super PAC for 2020 GOP candidates which would allow his team to raise unlimited amounts of cash and push out campaign advertisements backing a particular nominee.

Grapes...

A Virginia winemaker awoke earlier this week to a very unpleasant surprise: Virtually all of the grapes in his vineyard had been stolen overnight. David Dunkenberger lost around 2.5 tons of grapes in the unusual robbery.
Dunkenberger said it only took him a minute to realize his vineyard was nearly picked clean, which appeared to have happened between the hours of 5 p.m. Monday and 7 a.m.
Tuesday.

It takes six to eight people about six hours to pick through one variety of grapes, and six varieties were stolen that night.

Dunkenberger works a separate full-time job to allow him to keep the vineyard, which he is unsure he'll be able to do anymore.

Wyeth...

Andrew Wyeth Paintings. Day Dream 1980

Sterile...

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In the winter of 2016, a plane carrying an unusual shipment made its way from Italy to Africa. Inside were the eggs of 5,000 genetically modified mosquitoes. 

Scientists are determined to eradicate the deadly disease that kills nearly three million people worldwide every year. Africa bears the brunt of the burden. 

All 5,000 mosquito eggs carried a genetic modification that made the males  sterile and the next generation sterile and so on. Now, after two years, scientists finally have a group of 10,000 sterile male mosquitoes that carry the genetic modification and are also fully adapted to the local conditions. 

The Bug...

The company's American unit announced that it would end global production of the third-generation bulbous bug in July of next year after offering two special editions for sale.

The compact Beetle was introduced in Germany in 1938 and came to the U.S. 11 years later, where it became a symbol of utilitarian transportation often used by hippies. The iconic car sold for about 30 years before U.S. sales stopped in 1979.  

Volkswagen revived it in the U.S. in 1998 as a more modern "New Beetle," but it attracted mainly female buyers.