What's the best working relationship you've had with a boss??

Locut0s

Lifer
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What's the best working relationship you've even had with your boss. If it was a romantic relationship it does NOT count for the purposes of this thread. There are too many cases of romantic office relationships and I'm interested in cases where the employee/boss dynamic is still intact. I'm interested in cases where your boss ended up being a close friend for example. Working with family of course does not count either.
 

SirStev0

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Nov 13, 2003
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I always have very good working relationships with bosses. Usually end up having friend relationships with a good deal of them. Especially managerial people who won't be much older than me. The one guy is one of my very good friends. My gf watches his kids sometimes at our place. Actually going to a BBQ tonight at his place.
 

Spineshank

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Jun 8, 2001
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I have a good relationship with my boss. She throws a end of summer party every year too that is pretty wild.
 

Jeff7

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I haven't ever had too many problems with direct supervisors or managers.

Best working relationship is with my supervisor right now, at my work study job. This guy's got a HAM or CB radio (don't remember which, maybe both?) in his pickup truck, just for fun. He has his own little electronics lab at home, enjoys picking up military surplus electronics and hardware through various connections, and still plays online FPS games. It's a very laid-back environment, though if work does need to be done, he won't hesitate to assign it. I tend to get most of it, because I seem to be the most technically capable work-study person there.

Back when I worked at Walmart, most of the management was pretty decent to me. On my last day there, two of the shift managers decided to work my department with me for awhile, just so they could chat with me awhile about where I was headed in life. They also turned a blind eye when a few people went outside and shrink-wrapped my car (you know, with company-owned shrink wrap), or when 5 people tackled me in the break room and wrapped me to a chair. :laugh: They then paged everyone to the break room, where I waited, helpless, with a box next to me - they wrote on it, "Jeff's College Fund." Management came back to have a look, too. One just said, "Oh my gawd," and left. The other took out his cellphone camera to take a picture, and went on break.
Such is tradition for beloved people leaving/escaping Walmart employment.:)
Past pranks for such occasions included wrapping people to shelving, wrapping cars to trees, dumping bucketloads of water on someone unexpectedly, or attacks with Silly-String.
 

Scarpozzi

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Jun 13, 2000
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We play BF2 and COD4 on PC every few weeks.

We used to play Ravenshield and CounterStrike.
 

Miklebud

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Nov 20, 2002
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I used to hang out with a previous boss outside of work fairly often. We used to smoke and drink together. Go on hikes. Best boss I've ever had.
 

shocksyde

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I still hang out with my former boss from a job I left 2 years ago. We catch a lot of sporting events together. We're both in the booze industry = lots of free tickets.
 

purbeast0

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Sep 13, 2001
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well i worked at a grocery store for 8 years since I was 14 till I was 22. to this day i still hang out with him and i even went to his bachelor party years ago.

the best part about this relationship is that to this day, even 3 years after i stopped working there, i could still get free food from the store he works at.
 

AndrewR

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I have a good relationship now with my boss. I work in a separate office, and he's very hands off with what I do and trusts me to do it well. He also backs me on travel proposals including whatever training I want. I've only been there 6 months so there hasn't been any social interaction really so far (age difference about 10 years). Even though I can qualify for a job with greater pay, I am hesitant to leave the great situation I have right now!