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When bronze turtles can’t save you: Surviving small business management
Horror stories about some managers who thought they were gods.
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Everyone who has worked in a small company has stories about middle managers who are jerks, creeps and scammers.
PHOTO: PEXELS
Years ago, I worked in a series of small publishing firms, each more determined than the other to hire good people, along with at least one manager who was a monster.
When confronted with reasonable behaviour, normal business practices and common courtesies, these managers, like chimpanzees seeing a rubber snake, react with poo-flinging rage.
