Bad boss burnout

Burn out has three primary etiologies-systemic, organizational, and personal-ranking in importance in that order. That's why we have to PISS on burnout.

Bad rules create sick ecosystems. Dysfunctional organizations. led by bad bosses, fry their employees. Lack of personal resilience, in the case of medical practice, is the least important, since, in my view, sick care workers are some of the most resilient people on the planet to get to where they are.

Technologists are no better when it comes to frying doctors. We all know the EMR story and the growing impact of the sicktech industrial complex.

Bad boss burnout is nothing new. We have all either had one or been Dr. Asshole.

I've experienced both. Have you been called a disruptive doctor too?

No one should be working for someone who doesn’t respect them, makes them feel undermined, or makes their work life hell. If you’re stuck working for a toxic boss, what can you do? While you cannot completely change a person or their behavior, there are things you can try within your sphere of control to manage a toxic boss and keep your mental well-being a priority. In this article, the author outlines the signs to watch out for to help you assess whether your boss is toxic and offers strategies to try if you’re finding yourself in this impossibly difficult situation.

Seven in 10 U.S. workers say they would leave a job if they had a bad manager — and younger employees are much more likely than their older colleagues to cite having a bad manager as a reason to quit, according to LinkedIn’s latest Workforce Confidence survey. That doesn’t necessarily mean they think they could do the job better; among individual contributors, just one-third of workers said they aspire to becoming people managers themselves. Millennial workers are the most likely to be eyeing a promotion into people management.

Churning out more MD/MBAs hasn't helped.

The problem is that you won't know you will be working for a bad boss until you work with them. When you are looking for a job, everyone plays nicey nice and are perfectly adept at interview theater for attractive applicants, so you won't walk from the opportunity.

So, what are you supposed to do if' you are looking for a job and certainly don't want to work for a jerk, you have a job but now have to work with a bad boss, or, one day you look in the mirror and don't like who you see?

1. Read The No Asshole Rule
2. What If Your Boss Really Is a Jerk?
3. Should you blow the whistle on a bad boss?
4. How to know if you are an asshole
5. Practice doing by work around (DBWA)
6. Find a sponsor who will cover your six
7. Fire me, please
8. Do what you can to get your toxic boss promoted. It will happen eventually so just accelerate the process.
9. Quit and put it on your failure resume
10. Think twice before you take that promotion. Is that why you went to medical school?
11. Maybe you are from Venus and your boss is from Mars. Try a different communication and learning style.
12. How to manage your boss

Here are the six Rs of career planning and transitioning. Some of the harmful pyrogenic job risk factors you can identify, like bad bosses. if you do your homework. Most, however, you can't until you find yourself in the situation.

Then, once again, you will have to decide whether to persevere, pivot, or punt. But it probably won't be your first rodeo.

Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA is the President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs on Substack