Is your boss a jerk?

If you haven’t worked for a jerk – consider yourself lucky...

Wayne Hochwarter, a business professor at Florida State University, has spent much of his career studying bad bosses. He’s found most of us have had a crummy boss at one point or another. Here’s what the peons have to say about it:

• 42% of employees reported that their boss was concerned more with saving his or her own job than with assisting employees to be productive.

• 42% said they failed to receive things that were promised more than once over the past year.

• 40% agreed with the statement that "the only fun thing about work is leaving."

• 34% reported that their boss is two-faced.

• 32% indicated that they work for a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

• 29% felt that their boss would "throw them under the bus" if it meant saving their own job.

• 24% caught their supervisor in a direct lie.

• 20% have heard a supervisor tell a co-worker that he or she could "get them fired if they wanted to."

• More than 40% of workers said they would not acknowledge their boss if they ran into him or her on the street.