7 Signs Your Boss is THREATENED By Your Potential

I can’t tell you how many clients of mine have had the same problem you are facing: their boss is treating them horribly - because they are intimidated by them. When you are a high potential top performer, you might have to deal with an insecure boss. But how can you spot a bad boss who is letting their insecurity sabotage you at work (and tbh, themselves)? In this video I’m sharing the seven signs your boss feels threatened by you.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:11 Contribute without credit
1:45 Undermining your achievements
2:58 Unfair criticism only
6:01 High visibility work revoked
7:12 They bury you in busywork
8:31 Gatekeep
9:47 They will NEVER promote you

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[smithrr]

This is such an accurate story for an insecure narcissistic boss that I had. He piled on stupid worthless busy work on me, but also had me write technical presentations and technical reports for him so he could present them to his bosses. I saw how messed up that situation was I became so exhausted from this game that i wrote in his name on the cover pages instead of my own. He kept the high visibility project to himself, but he really struggled with them because he didn't want to admit that he was disorganized. I also had alot more credentials under my belt than he did, and he did every thing he could to down play that fact.

I got into this role of being under him because I was hired under a different manager, and then that manager was promoted, and then there was some department re-structuring caused by that promotion, and I was placed under this guy.

Once I figured out that he was gaslighting me and undermining me, and I gained my confidence back, the only functional solution was to leave the company. He was scared and had to hold back tears when I left. But he knew he was being a douchebag the entire time. Im not there to write his technical reports any more. Such hypocrisy. Its best to recognize these types as soon as possible and create a strategy to deal with them.

[TheGalactica]

I have a boss like that. Usually I censor myself because if she finds out that I achieved something she's incredibly jealous and vindictive.

[TalkWithMekhi]

I just quit my job yesterday bc of this

[a.d.b]

1. Micromanaged 2. Continual criticism 3. Keeps office door open and "reminds me repeatedly" of my shortcomings in earshot of coworkers 4. Doesn't look me in the eye when I speak 5. Shoots down all of my ideas (while others say they are great) 6. Keeps information from me 7. Wants to be copied on all emails that I send out. 8. Prepare cumbersome reports that he can use to spotlight his achievements.9. Tries to make me look incompetent in front of his boss. However, boss' boss used to be my boss and knows what I do and likes me. Thanks to his open door policy, we've met twice to talk about my boss.

[wolfiexii]

You list soo many reasons why no one wants to go back to the office. The office sucks and the people running it are pants on head nutty.

[peonyflowers]

Very true. They also bully by proxy. They use others to do it then pretend to be impartial or blatantly side with the bullies. They smile in your face and pretend to “have your back” then do everything behind the scenes to make sure you never grow.

[Uksoapfan]

They take credit for your work, they even micromanage you hoping you will slip up so they can use that against you, or they give you the undesirable jobs. They see you as a threat so will keep you down. Same for co-workers, they may see you as a threat to their chances of promotion. As explain in your other videos, being friends with co workers is a sheer exception, not the rule, and anyone who thinks you can make friends at work is quite naive, as I know from experience they will throw you under the bus to save their own skin or to get promoted.

[nkunam]

Absolutely 100% right! The worst part is they promote incompetent people to equalise you and even worse above you in the hierarchy to push you out. I had a manager who hired a team of incompetent people and told me at the end of the first year “ I am not a fan of star performers. I want the whole team to do well“. How can the team of incompetent people he hired himself ever do well. He went to Wharton school and that’s what he learnt there. I left. But the irony is 95% of financial industry is like this.

[charlottehalstead]

I recently encountered this exact situation in my first permanent FT career role. I pulled off a successful event we hosted with Margaret Atwood, which I prepared for all on my own, and many other achievements. Months of hard work and occasional praise only to be brutally sabotaged at my PR. I'd suspected beforehand, but it was around this point that I truly understood my boss was acting out of insecurity and narcissism due to feeling threatened as they were nearing the end of their career, and I was the bright young thing on the come up. I quickly went out and secured a new job and better career opportunity, and so far it's been great!

[lisanordic]

I used to have a boss who would never let me start my own projects even when the higher management approved it would be great for their business. He would overload me with paperwork and all the boring stuff that was out there. Every time I presented something new to him he would say “that’s very nice of you, but we don’t need this atm”. One day I just stopped discussing my projects with him and went directly to his manager (the head of our department) and he gave me the approval for my new projects and let my boss know that I will work on them regardless. Later my boss started s-talking me and how badly I performed on the regular tasks and started lashing out at me almost every day. At some point it just got too much and I left. A year later I was earning more than him having non-managing position while he stayed at the same place doing small projects he used to overload me with.

[ShawnC.W-King]

OMFG, This was my supervisor and His Boss back in 2019-2020 ALL OF IT... Had I not gotten laid off because of COVID with a Huge Severance package thanks to HR, they would've found any excuse to try and fire me, they were indeed that bad. The looks on their faces as I walked out on that last day while I'm beaming ear to ear, PRICELESS *Chef's Kiss* ...and then later found out from coworkers still there that their department offices got cut and my Supervisor's boss got fired for harassment 🤣

[aditiishere]

I just work for the paycheck ..nothing else

[TheSister]

100%, been there. Can you make a video about being left out in a team? This is kinda related.

[makeda.andrews]

Ugh....THIS right here happens ALL THE TIME. Every last one!

[camadams]

7:34 I got stuck with the "busy work" given Im the youngest in my office by 20 years and don't fit the "bro mold". Thankfully technology can really eliminate nonsense.
1) Speech to text apps
2) Google app scripts to autofill and generate documents
3) Organized cloud storage with extensive records so you can reuse past work

Ended up leveraging the deliberate pile on to take over all admin tasks. Then moved on to my actual role. Now Im harder to replace because Im the only one in the facility who knows how to do the admin work.

Also I got really lucky. They handed off the nightmare job of parsing financial data that's 95% of our funding. It use to be done by hand and take weeks. I wrote a script that does it in 5 seconds and that connected me with my boss's boss's boss.

[sithdemon]

Hey Jen, please talk about the Empath employee vs. the Sociopath Manager.

[khaliddualeh]

Law Number 1: Never Outshine the Master

[mostiff]

What are your thoughts on a boss that manages through "her" fear of losing her job? She's not mean, but she's not competent and doesn't appear to want to understand enough of what her team does to lead them. It's clear she is very afraid of her leaders, so she will randomly ask for updates. But she seems to only do it when she is being pressured to. We only know that she's off when she just happens to mention it in a meeting. Or you will sign in to work and her out of office is on in our chat room. As for the work, I provide updates to her along the way, but she doesn't seem to care. Then all of a sudden she cares and starts asking for updates because someone might ask. I hope that makes sense. She seems deathly afraid of losing her job, but she isn't taking any action to improve her engagement. Seems burned out also. But she will throw you under the bus if she has to.

[AlexanderLurie]

DUde.. its like you looked at my work place. Like letter for letter...

[jellygurl]

Yep I have been at my current company going on 11 years and I have SEEN it all. CoWorkers who worked on my team who were jealous and competitive. Weird performance reviews and everything. I had Boss give me a bad review which was strange because I had been with the company 4 years at the time and never had any bad reviews. I was disappointed, six months later it's review time and he told me my work was amazing. His body language seemed fake. Mind you I didn't make any major changes to my performance. I think he intended to try to get me to quit the job because he was now leading a new team and my old manager left. A mess!