Sorry I didn’t specify!
1 does indeed equal bad, and 10 does indeed equal good.
I was going to give my boss an 8, but upon consideration of how much he leaves me alone, I went with a 9. And I don’t say that lightly- I have had some really shitty bosses.
I went for Thai food with a group of friends, including Craig.
Craig was used to ordering his food “5” at his favorite Chinese place, where their level of heat varied from 1 - 10, and even a 10 was not all that spicy.
The Thai place is a different story. They offer a choice of 1 - 5, and even a 1.5 is pretty fiery. So Craig ordered his food as a “5”, which gave the waitress a moments pause.
Craig ate every bite (he’s a cheapskate at heart and would never waste a swallow) and we enjoyed watching him sweat like a pig/whore in church/dockworker.
My “actual” boss has been away on medical leave since July, and I would rate her a 3. She had no idea what she was doing, couldn’t admit it, couldn’t train me, couldn’t do anything on her own and required my help for the simplest things, which she would then either dismiss or pass off as her own work, was massively insecure and paranoid, interrogated me whenever she saw me talking to another coworker about anything, talked constantly, constantly interrupted me and my work, was trying for promotion but was so incompetent she needed other people to fill out the goddamn promotion application for her, acted like a drunken clown at meetings in her desperate attempt to get people to like her, only had the attention span to listen to you for maaayyybe one sentence before interrupting…god damn, was she difficult.
But I’d still rate her a 3 because she didn’t insult or berate me, or actively undermine my career, or throw things at my head.
My current boss is her temporarily replacement, and I rated her a 4 in the poll, but now I’m thinking I was too harsh. Maybe a 6. She actually does know what she’s doing and has an easy-going temperament, but she’s also a micro-manager and one of the most ponderous people I’ve ever met. She makes a 4-sentence conversation exchange into a 30 minute discussion, and she also doesn’t let you get a word in edgewise, in any conversation, even when she’s telling you to do [abc] and you finished [abc] this morning. She’ll just keep going, giving you instructions, and she repeats herself in circles – “We need to do [abc] because of [xyz], so we should do [abc], because of [xyz], hence our need for [abc], because don’t forget [xyz], which is why…” – while you’re trying to tell her [abc] has already been done. And [abc] is one of your weekly routine tasks, and you’ve been in this job for three years.
Last week, she and I had a meeting about our department budget (the department is comprised of only us two) in preparation for requesting next year’s budget at the end of the month. We have a budget of $4000/year, but for the past 5 years we’ve spent less than $500/year. I thought this meeting would last 5 minutes tops. MAYBE there would be a little discussion around maybe requesting a budget of $500, no, $1000 to be safe… No. That meeting lasted TWO HOURS. That was two hours of her thinking out loud about budgets and purchases and budgets and purchases and budgets and finally deciding on $1000/year, which is what I had suggested in my first sentence to her at the beginning of the meeting.
Fortunately, her contract is up in two weeks.
I’m very, very happy to have worked for my boss for nine years. I suppose that makes it all the more weird that I’m leaving on Friday. We do have some philosophical differences about how our job should be done that has made it increasingly difficult to work together as my role has expanded.
So far, he’s one of the better principals I’ve had. It helps that he’s a former student. 
I voted a 5, which is as middle of the road as I could get. There are parts of my manager’s work style that I really appreciate, but there also a few areas where she drives me nuts. She is very protective of her team (which is a great attribute), but she is incredibly bad at being seen as a partner with other groups and teams.
I gave mine a 9 but it should probably be a 10. My boss is awesome, and I would have quit by now if he hadn’t started and replaced my previous boss, who was smart and hardworking but a lot younger and less willing to stand up to upper management.
My poll choice was “7”.
Not because I dislike him personally- he’s a great guy, and the literal model of integrity and rectitude. I have no fear at all that he’ll screw me or anything like that.
However, he’s probably wasted in his current job. He’s a really great people person, and extremely customer-focused, which makes me think he ought to be in a customer facing role. Instead, he’s in IT middle-management, and takes that customer focus and puts it on our business counterparts. This sometimes means that he is overly business-focused, and not IT focused enough, IMO. This means that sometimes we end up going to Herculean lengths to remedy things that the business screwed up- either by selling the customer something IT said we weren’t ready to do, or by failing to think their own processes and projects through. I tend to think that we should let them marinate in the fetid stew of their own stupidity and lack of forethought until we can get to it in the normal course of our business; a few times of that and they WILL learn, but my boss’ customer focus tends to make him think in terms of “good customer service” and “what’s good for the company” instead of looking out for his underlings in situations like that.
Basically for all his excellent traits, he’s a bit too much of a company drum-beater for me, so he lost 3 points on that. I kind of want someone who’ll tell the business that they’re being idiots, and that no, they can’t have that when they want it.
3 if I’m feeling charitable, 2 if I’m not. I gave him a 2. I just got a job offer on Friday, and I’m STRONGLY considering taking it just because I need to get away from my current boss.
9
My boss is like my very young uncle ( 8 years older than me ) and sort of my big brother who passed away young. Seems he was reincarnated as my current boss.
I sort of went hungry in pursuit of a good boss. Literally went for broke on the gamble I could find the boss/company I wanted.
I can’t give 10. He likes to travel like a cheapskate. Lol 
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Last boss: Narcissistic micromanaging asshole. Gave himself a stroke and had to retire.
Current boss: “You guys know your jobs, I’m going to stand back and let you do them”.
Whole world of difference.
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I’ve worked under nine different principals over the course of my teaching career. Seven of them were very fine people who I liked on a personal level in addition to respecting their professional performance. Two, the first two as it happens, I neither liked nor respected. Present boss gets a 10 assuming 10 is most positive.
I like my current boss a lot. She might err a little bit on the side of “not managing enough” (I telecommute, and sometimes I’m not exactly clear on what I should be doing) but she’s supportive, answers my questions, and is generally a good person. I gave her a 9.
I’ve gotten along with almost all my bosses, even the one (many years ago) who was completely incompetent at management and not very good at hiding it.
Departmental supervisor; -10 (yes, NEGATIVE 10) a micromanaging condescending jerk who only likes ideas if he came up with them (or steals ours to pass off as his)
Boss; 8
Company owner; 9.5
Homemade cheesecake on my birthday. Any flavor I want. Even if that means he has to experiment and figure out how to make the recipe work.
Y’all should feel free to extrapolate the rest of my feelings for my boss from that data point.
-2
I adore my boss. I only have 4 weeks left till I leave this job and move away. If I could, I’d take my whole team with me when I move. He also has amazing blue eyes and sometimes when I’m talking to him he smiles and I lose my train of thought and I can feel my cheeks start to go pink and then I start to ramble and then let’s go out for drinks so handsome purple dinosaur…
Wait, what was the question?
Oh yeah. I adore my boss :o
She’s fine, I think. It’s kind of a shitty situation as far as getting to know her goes, since we all work remotely for a nationwide company and she has a lot of people under her. I’ve only spoken to her over the phone a couple of times since I started in November. She seems nice enough but I’m very clearly on my own out here.
I’ve worked for this company for 7-8 years, though, all of them in actual offices until last year, and my previous bosses were great. I didn’t always like their decisions and they both really had a hard time confronting problematic employees, but they are genuinely good people.