Working under the regime of a Bully Boss was met with new and difficult challenges for me, I was stuck in a working rut and I didn’t know where to turn. I couldn’t remember what my kids looked like and work now consumed and plagued my life. The late night meetings and artificial deadlines meant saying my ‘goodnights’ in quick, short text message speak and missing out on dinner table conversations with my family, most of my suppers were consumed on the M25 courtesy of Walkers crisps. My marriage was now strained, enough said. But I held onto hope that life under Bully Boss would get better somehow or hopefully he might just quit. It didn’t get better and he didn’t quit.
Bully Boss is a story of the torment caused by an intimidating and demanding boss – my Bully Boss. Under Bully Boss my self-confidence took a dive, I was wearing, sadness, resentment, frustration and at times sabotage.
It was a torturous eight months of persistent harassment for me. ‘When you’re being bullied some folk do go into hiding. I reached a brick wall, and an all time low. I knew my boss wasn’t going to change and he wasn’t going to leave either’. I retained a shaky spark of optimism; and resolved to regain control of the situation. I went to the doctor because the family petition was growing longer, my doctor told me I was suffering from ‘work-related stress’, I called it Bully-Boss Syndrome (BBS). ‘For me it was either downhill or uphill, and I refused to go downhill, not over this’. It was time for empowerment; time to reclaim my self esteem. ‘I did all the self-help books and I realized this was bigger than any self-help book”. This was about relating my story, my experience in an upbeat way, I needed to hold onto something that would raise me up and writing did that for me. I wanted to share my Bully Boss story with others and show there is 'wit' and 'absurdity' in all of us and in everything. In my writing I was not seeking to trivialise what was happening to me but I really needed to get off the pessimistic road I was on. I know I wasn’t the only person going through this torment and working for a crazy boss.
I eventually found the place I needed to be and sealed my experiences in my book Bully Boss.
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