10 common bad boss behaviors

Team members at veterinary practices everywhere work with managers who occasionally:

• Get impatient with team members and clients.

• Exhibit a demanding demeanor.

• Expect things to be done almost before they ask.

• Talk to you about what other team members did wrong or need to do differently.

• Request that team members do personal favors.

• Want team members to take sides during squabbles or differences in opinion.

• Ask team members to lie to clients and colleagues for them.

• Deny that there are problems in the practice.

• Play the blame game by saying that high team turnover is due to the poor pool of applicants, for instance.

• Don't take action and allow small problems to snowball into avalanches.