I Think It’s Time to Retire This Meme

Speaking as a retired person, I am happy to say I don’t have to kowtow to any megalomaniacal bosses any more. I put in some forty years of work, retiring only in my seventies. And not once during that forty years did I deal with a boss who did not behave like a tinpot dictator.

What I would have like to have seen is a company owner who would consider himself as the first among equals, not ruling with the divine right of kings. Although I consider myself a good writer, everything I wrote was “corrected” in such a way that it was worse than my first draft.

Within a year after I retired, my health improved markedly. My blood pressure, glucose readings, and weight all were better. That’s because I was no longer under stress. Had I continued working, the stress would have killed me before 2020. Treat me like a boss? No, I am not a prisoner in a concentration camp.

The funny thing is that my bosses were also under quite a bit of stress. But why is it that that was the only thing they were willing to share with their workers?