Bad Boss & Summer Activities

Are you a bad boss? Dangerous Dave talks about an article in Forbes that talks about what makes you a bad boss. Plus, our favorite summer activites include ice cream and vacation.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the din with dangerous day. Well,
if you have employees, let's hope that you're the type
of boss it's giving them extra leeway this week because
everybody's going to be moving slow after a three day weekend.
But if you're still expecting a lot of them, six
signs you're a bad boss, according to Forbes. The coersor
type of boss. It manipulates their team to prioritize their

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own personal interest over the team's needs. The avoid the
type of boss It doesn't show up for their team.
They fail to respond to emails and frequently don't give
them the support they need. The micromanager type of boss
who overly involved with the day to day dealings with
the team, often dictating personal preferences over how the work
should be done. The blocker, so the type of boss

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it fails to recognize individual contributions. The hoarder the type
of boss. It holds all the key information and it
only shares select information with the team. And the blamer
the type of boss will blame others when things go wrong.
They will fail to ever take account of if their
reputation is going to be hurt. At all costs. You
ever had a bad boss like this, I try to

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be the good boss. Well, actually, I just try to
be bossy deeper in the well. If you got in
a few of these activities over the Fourth of July weekend,
you're well on your way having as successful summer. A
new poll looked at the most popular summer activities. Number
one involves food, but not the grill, which surprised me.
Eating ice cream America's favorite summertime thing to do technically

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ice cream or popsicles, ice cream, doing heavy lifting. Here,
though sixty percent love it, thirty five percent like it,
only one percent said they hate ice cream in the summer.
So the most popular summer activities in order, eating ice
cream or popsicles, going on vacation, grilling, road trips, going
to the beach, hiking or nature rocks, swimming in the pool, stargazing,

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watching fireworks, having a picnic. A few more things that
ranked high included boating, relaxing in a hammock, roasting marshmallows,
and going to an amusement park. And one thing that
surprisingly low, sunbathing. Half of Americans kind of an enjoy
it to a degree, half would rather not. Fourteen percent
said they love laying out. Eighteen percent said they absolutely
hate it. Well, how about for me, because I like

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to combine a few of them. I would like to
go onto a road trip to the beach on vacation
where I can eat some ice cream. Tune again for
another episode of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous daved
right here.