This book is part of the Part of the Surrounded by Idiots series! If you’ve read any of his other books, this one will feel familiar, but it offers interesting insights into how to navigate your relationship with your boss or your employees, if you’re the boss.

We’ve all had a bad boss a time or two and it’s miserable spending the majority of your day in a challenging dynamic. I gained tremendous insights from this book and have recommended it to others wanting to improve their relationships at work.

The author mixes knowledge about the subject matter with humor to make reading it both a pleasurable and informative experience.

‘Surrounded by Bad Bosses and Lazy Employees’ by Thomas Erikson is a book to help navigate and decode the world of work.

Executed with insight and humor, this book attempts to do the impossible, put your coworkers into neat
boxes. We work with introverts and after extroverts, but there are also gradations. The author uses gradations of color to differentiate even more. so if you are a introvert blue working with say an extrovert red this might be where problems come in to play. knowing this information could smooth out your work relationships.

it's awful but probably misses some nuances along the way. It can probably help some people as long as they understand this. I like the approach and the humor even if it feels simplistic in nature.

As someone who has had experience dealing with challenging bosses and colleagues, I was hopeful that "Surrounded by Bad Bosses (And Lazy Employees)" by Thomas Erikson would provide me with valuable insights and strategies. However, I found that the book did not meet my expectations. I found the writing style to be somewhat repetitive and the examples used to be generic and unrelatable. Overall, this book was not for me.

I enjoyed this book a great deal. More than that, I took notes from this book and learned some new ideas. The author has an easy, congenial writing style. The ideas that were presented were not shoved down the reader's throat, but put out there for the reader to consider. That is rare in our very opinionated, overbearing world today. I saw many people that I have worked with, many that I currently work with, and, most likely, many that I will work with in the different color descriptions. Although each color was only a basic outline, I learned about ways to deal with each of the colors to promote a better working relationship.

Erikson's "Surrounded by Bad Bosses..." was really interesting to me. The title caught my eye because... well, we've all had a bad boss or lazy employee in the bunch, no matter where you've worked, and I wanted to know if there were any tips on how to put up with mine. Erikson's advice was helpful in identifying what kind of employees and bosses there are based off of a color scheme (red, yellow, blue, and green) and though he explains this in more detail in another of his books (I haven't read it but he mentions this fact in this book), the information he does share is enough detail to generally identify who is who. and how to interact with them. I actually discusses a few of his points with my SO to help him with some of his office chaos! Overall, if you are looking for some leadership direction and ways to alleviate the frustration of your coworkers, this book is worth the read.

This book wasn't for me. There was one or two interesting things but overall the book didn't hit home.

I didn't find this book as helpful as I thought I would. The author sorts types of bosses out by certain colors and it was a bit hard to understand. Escpieclaly because I found it hard to pinpoint exactly where my boss fit.