40+ ways to ruin the atmosphere in your company as a boss

You don’t want to become the most unpopular boss in history?

Then you should avoid the following 41 things in your company:

1. Lie to your employees to the biggest possible extent
2. Overburden your employees
3. Assign unnecessary tasks to your employees
4. Do not praise your employees
5. Refuse any pay rise
6. Pay different salaries for the same performance
7. Let your employees pay for coffee & water
8. Dismiss employees after a good financial year
9. Replace permanent employees with interns
10. Set targets at an unattainable level
11. Prohibit any flexibility in the organisation of working time
12. Reorganise the departments every 2 months
13. Yell at your employees publicly in meetings
14. Demand that your employees are also available after hours, at weekends and on holiday
15. Make sure that the technical infrastructure such as computers & software never works perfectly
16. Reject any constructive suggestion from your employees
17. Always arrive ¼ Hour late for appointments
18. Never set an agenda for meetings
19. Never inform your employees about how you took a decision
20. Ask all employees who went home before 20:00 why they left the office so early
21. Ban birthday parties
22. Cut salaries and departmental budgets and buy a new fancy company car
23. Deny more than one week’s holiday in a row
24. Demand overtime – but do not pay for it
25. Have your employees’ e-mails and Internet activities monitored
26. Install surveillance cameras anywhere in the office
27. Also ask your employees to come to the office in case of illness
28. Never admit that you make mistakes
29. Never be available for the employees
30. Do not reply to your employees’ e-mails
31. Forget the 20-year anniversary of your employees
32. Do not have broken things repaired in the company
33. Rent an office in the worst area of your city
34. Let the staff clean the toilets themselves
35. Tell the cleaning lady to throw away all Post-Its and documents on the desks every evening
36. Share the bitten-off sandwich leftovers from customer meetings with your employees
37. Put your employees in an open-plan office without any privacy
38. Do not give new employees any kind of introduction
39. Offer no career and promotion opportunities
40. Organise unpaid teambuilding days on weekends where your employees have to dance in circles holding hands
41. Have each work step documented to the minute in an internal system
42. Discriminate employees on the basis of gender, religion or sexual orientation
43. Prevent the establishment of a works council