on dealing with bosses:
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Pro tip:
Get all your marching orders in writing.
Written procedure, email, blood pact to _, whatever.
Doesn't matter what the marching orders are.
Schedule, work flow, orifice to be given to the lord of darkness on the first Tuesday of the reporting quarter, whatever.
Even the basic, bog-standard stuff.
When your boss comes around to bitch at your for not meeting your KPI's or whatever, show them their words with a 'you told me to' enough times, they'll either take the hint or THEY end up eating their words in the form of a pink slip down the line.
I am currently on boss SIX at my workplace.
For the record, I like my current boss.
But man, down the coke or up the Ritalin, at this point I don't care which.