Life Lessons I Learned From My 3 Bosses

A good boss teaches you something, but a bad boss teaches a great deal!

Yean Foong (M.Ed.)
3 min readOct 22, 2021

I have had three bosses before I quit and started my own company. These three bosses taught me some life lessons.

Boss #1: Discipline, Discipline, Discipline!

My first boss is a Taiwanese. Not only does he has a military background, but he was also a military instructor that has trained thousands of soldiers over a decade in the military.

For him, discipline is everything. The most essential quality of an employee is absolute obedience. Although I do not appreciate how harsh he could be, I admit I have learned to impose self-discipline.

Wait, he had more. He likes to humiliate employees in public, and (yes, more to come), he wants to do it with a video recording so he can distribute the VCD to all branches worldwide. I was in one of the collections. He called me “moron” and “pig”, even humiliated my family for raising me.

Thanks to the unique “training”, I learned to protect myself from others harsh comments and stay up with my own values.

Boss #2: Leadership Is Not In A Title

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Yean Foong (M.Ed.)

I am currently pursuing EdD (Doctor of Education). Educator/trainer/writer.