I Hate My Boss: Why Sunday Feels Like That, and How to Get Your Week Back

Two out of three people dread Sunday evening. Almost none of them say it out loud.

It starts around four o'clock on Sunday.

The weekend is still running. Nobody has sent you anything. And your chest is already tight, because part of you is back at your desk with the one person who makes the whole week hard.

You already know how that feels. What almost nobody tells you is what it is costing you, or what to actually say on Monday morning.

This is a 40-page guide for the person who cannot just walk out. Rent is due. The market is tight. There are people depending on the salary. So most of this book is about what you can do while you are still there.

What is inside

Ten scripts, word for word, for the ten moves that do the most damage: the brief that changes after you deliver, the blame in front of the team, the credit that goes somewhere else, the Saturday message, the criticism with no examples, the promise that never gets a date, the meeting with no agenda, the freeze-out, the workload set to fail, and the manager who checks everything.

A chapter on what to do in the first 72 hours if you are handed a written warning or an improvement plan, including the one move that cannot be undone and the request you must make in writing before anything else.

An honest chapter on who actually helps, split two ways: what to do if you have a real HR department, and what to do if HR is the office manager and your boss owns the company.

The research on what this does to your body and your sleep, including the finding that changes the arithmetic on "I will give it a bit longer."

A nightly routine that stops you carrying him home, built on what the recovery research actually shows works.

How to decide between staying, moving internally, and leaving. Plus the reference problem, and how to answer the interview question without ever criticising him.

Six printable tools at the back

The Sunday Test. The Shutdown Routine. The Record. The Ten Scripts on one page. The First 72 Hours of a Warning or Plan. Stay, Move, or Leave.

What this is not

It will not tell you your boss is a narcissist. That is a clinical diagnosis and no book can hand it to you from a distance.

It will not promise you can fix him.

And it will not tell you to just leave. That advice is free everywhere and useless to someone with no offer in hand.

On the research

Every study and figure in this book was checked against its published source. Two of the most repeated statistics in this whole subject did not survive that check, and the book names them and leaves them out. The short accounts in the book are composites built from patterns across published case studies and interviews. No real person or employer is described.

Format

Instant download. Reads on a phone in about an hour. The six tools are designed to be printed.

This book is general information and education, not medical, psychological, or legal advice. Employment law differs by country. For anything with legal consequences, speak to a qualified employment lawyer or your labour authority.