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13315455, She's not a tough boss, she's an abusive boss
Posted by Marauder21, Fri Feb-22-19 03:53 PM
Does your boss regularly throw things around the office? Or make you wash their dishes or (rumored, but never nailed down, but also widespread enough that the writers of Veep had heard about it) shave their legs? Or blame you for problems in their marriage? Or go out of their way to call your next employer to demean you?

If so, I'm sorry, but you have a shitty boss and should leave.

And of course there are asshole men in politics who also treated their staff badly. But this isn't a gender thing. From today's NYT article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/politics/amy-klobuchar-staff.html

"While there was wide consensus in the interviews that women were often held to a different standard as bosses, former aides — female and male — said their concerns about Ms. Klobuchar’s behavior should not be dismissed as gender bias. Many of the aides said they had worked for both men and women, for lawmakers both compassionate and unkind, without encountering anyone else like Ms. Klobuchar."

She's routinely has some of the highest staff turnover of anyone in Congress since day one. It's bad and there's no reason to hand wave it away.