Everyday we hear people say that they are in the process of training their boss. WTF craziness is that! You are training your boss?!! If you have to “train your boss”, then why don’t you have the job yourself? When you train your boss, you are effectively teaching someone else who gets paid more how to tell you what to do. Take a minute and let that marinate.

You are teaching someone *how* to tell you what to do.

Training your boss (supervisor, manager, etc), means that you were overlooked for a position you qualified for. Now, it’s different if your boss just needs to see how things are done where you work because they’ve come in with 120 years of experience, this kind of “training” is more like showing them the ropes. The gripes we hear constantly aren’t this kind of training at all.

The complaints we hear are from people that are honestly showing their bosses how to do a particular job. Now, unless you didn’t apply for the position for personal reasons, you have a piss poor work performance, or you’ve called in dead one time too many, there is no reason why you should be tasked to teach someone how to be your superior.

It’s even worse if you never knew that the position was open, if someone told you not to apply, or if you applied and they told you you didn’t qualify. Look up the word GRIEVANCE in Webster, because you clearly have a case.

So, if you woke up this morning to go in to a job where you are training your boss, QUIT. Why? Because with your current job, you’ll be a rat forever.