You’ve had a terrible boss before. You may even have one right now. They manage up instead of down. They don’t fully understand and appreciate the work that you actually do. They fail to see the big picture and get bogged down in irrelevant details. They are more concerned with looking good individually than they are about achieving wider objectives.
I get it. We’ve all been there.
The problem is that we are all utterly replaceable. It doesn’t matter how long we’ve spent honing our craft, how many regional sales awards we’ve won, or what an admirable job we do holding our liquor at the office holiday party every year.