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"Nobody has any respect for you, but they'll never say it to your face because they want to continue collecting a salary and benefits". Well, maybe they can now!
The boss at my first place out college? Well, the most recent one... I had 11 in 10 years thanks to ladder-climbers... I'd tell him that he's a two-faced, forked tongued fraud and everyone knows it. I'd tell him that nobody is impressed with his ability to dance around the issues and lie without "technically" lying. I'd tell him that he is disgrace to the engineering ranks from which he came and, if he had any shame at all, would have given up his management position to do something useful years ago. I'd also spit in his face for allowing his group to be decimated by layoffs and laugh at him for basically giving up Christianity when it got in the way of his career - you know, because that whole "do unto others" thing doesn't work too well when you're laying off the workers and sticking knives in the backs of others.
As for the boss of the failing machine shop for which I recently worked, my first level direct report was a great guy - and has since left there - but the COO who ran the place was a delusional, hate-filled, egotistical lunatic who has no business running a lemonade stand, much less a machine shop - and I'd tell him that. I'd also remind him that it was his horrible business decisions that destroyed the place, not "stupid employees," as he likes to claim. Nope. All the gross underbidding of contracts, deals made with crooked customers, and jobs outsourced to cheap and worthless subcontractors - all of that is on him, because he was a tyrant and wouldn't listen to facts.
I'm actually lucky, my boss and her chain above her are smart, on top of it, and handle things pretty well. My boss and I communicate well, so there's pretty much nothing I can't say to her--I just remember to think it out first and say it professionally and politely, rather than saying the first thing that pops into my head. (She had asked me to work on my approach because my first reactions were coming off as 'negative', and since she's pushing for me to get promoted, she wants me to learn how to make my point in a more positive fashion. I can understand and respect this, and truthfully, she had a point.) I've found this approach does get my point across and gets more attention than just 'sounding off' did.
We do occasionally have a 'closed door' session where we give more 'free rein' to particularly difficult situations we're faced with from other departments, however. But we keep those between the two of us and get it out of systems, then put on the smiling faces and professionally make our stance known.
Most people are employees sitting on the lower rungs of the corporate ladder.
So their immediate bosses will often be just one step above them. These people can have very demanding and emotionally draining jobs - having to manage not only tons of projects and mandates but also teams/departments/egos/rivalries - all with poise, diplomacy and grace.
Many such bosses are very decent people and dedicated employees, caught between the wants of their higher-ups and the needs of their subordinates. They often deserve every penny they make in middle management.
Most real troubles come from those at the very top with whom rank-and-file employees rarely, if ever, come into contact. This is where serious decisions are made, lives are affected, special top interests are nurtured to the detriment of the "little guy", callousness is born; after all enough distance from the mortals will make even the most ridiculous or heartless decisions relatively easy to make.
I have the most wonderful immediate boss in the world - a man of infinite character, fairness and grace. I will be sincerely upset when his mandate ends. All of my previous immediate bosses were very nice people too.
I am yet to have a bad one.
When it comes to what transpires from the very top, however... I wold have LOTS to say to those if I suddenly stepped into the luxury of vast wealth and implicitly the right to tell every jerk in the world, even the massive ones, to "go to H" if I so feel.
I'm giving notice soon, I have a long list that I am trying to whittle down to basically two words and one of them I cannot type here
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