Interesting text exchange with a colleague recently. I was complaining about our boss and she stopped me and said she didn't want to hear it as the boss is her friend.
For a number of reasons I don't think this is true but my colleague is a sweetheart so I won't be telling her what I know. Our boss is fine but she owns the company and her first and foremost priority is, understandably, the business and making money. She talks a good talk about us being a great 'team' but this doesn't translate in pay (no pay rises for many years) and not enormous amounts of flexibility - well certainly not without at least one guilt trip and a reasonable amount of huffing and puffing.
So this got me thinking and I don't think I have ever been friends with my boss. Always got on absolutely fine with them but at the end of the day, as with my current job, when I leave I know I won't see them again. An ex-colleague is one of my best friends but bosses, no. Just wondered what everyone else's experience is?