Do you think it's possible to dislike your boss

[virgil]

But stay in your job long term?

No. Or not happily anyway. The relationship with your boss is so fundamental and colours your experience of a workplace and role so much that if the relationship is not good you are never going to be happy there long-term. For me, respect for the person managing me/directing the organisation is very important. I'm my own boss now...

Is this you? Tricky boss?

Possible but not ideal.

Take heart. Bosses come and go too.

If there are other aspects of the job that make it worthwhile, worth swallowing bile in the short term.

no

Yes, of course it's possible if you're both professional at work but it makes it much harder at times.

Dislike as a person or not respect as a boss? Yes to tge first, no to the second.

No. Having said that I have worked under a useless lazy incompetent idiot for some 2 years...however, I am actively looking for a new job.

It's possible, for I am doing it. Not ideal but if the pros of the job outweigh the cons (definitely do for me) then I think it's possible. I've even developed a sort of respect for them over time.

have had that and the person was foul but the professional was fair, good at her job etc. I could not have stood it long term as the personality was too much to bear.

My boss is utterly foul. Have put up with it for a long long time. But now I'm off. Byeeeee

I have worked for bullying types who I didn't like, but learned to manage, which was not great, but OK.

It probably depends if the boss is someone you have contact with daily or a head of department type you only see at team meetings etc.

no, i don't think it's possible.

you'd be miserable.

it might work if your boss moved on or got promoted away from being your boss.

I've found I prefer a good manager who I don't necessarily like, to someone who's a nice person but a crap manager. The latter would be preferable as a next door neighbour, though.

Does depend on how severe the dislike is and how much contact you have to have with them and how much independence they give you. I had one I didn't like but as only saw them for under five minutes a week it was fine, whereas if they're sitting next to you for 8 hours a day even a minor irritating trait makes you want to murder them!

I agree with citrus. I'd rather have a good manager than a nice manager who isn't as good a manager. It's a definite skill.