How do you deal with a boss that acts like a child?

I’d go with C find a new job.

edited after I got round to reading all the way to the bottom of the details section

Document EVERYTHING. If you want to stay… deal with everything she’s not willing to. Show initiative. and document everything. Start getting responses from her in writing. You could have her job in not time.

If you DON*T want to stay, look for a new job immediately. You don’t want prospective new employers talking to her for a reference.

I chose Door A even though I knew it was idiotic to do so. It kept me sane and focused on the jobs that needed to get done. I was completely aware I would arrive at Door C. It lasted 3 years before Door C arrived. I quit when the outrageous behaviors escalated. After I left,I was told things started to fall apart. It took 9 months for her world to fall apart and she is now unemployed. The ideal option for me would have been to have someone to go to,but in my case that was not to be.

Send her to her room.

Get her a babysitter.

Tell him if he gives you a raise you’ll get him candy.

Depending on how much you have invested in this job and what your future opportunities are, I’d choose A or C.
Option B isn’t going to get you anywhere.

Continue to do your job and do it really well – while looking for another one.

While you’re doing this, propose new ideas for improvements, innovation, and show that you’re taking extra initiative at company or board meetings and hopefully others will see the gap between the responsibility you’re taking and what she’s not. Then, if it doesn’t get better, have something else in your back pocket, and jump.

Give her a potch in tuches – and then look for a new job!

Get the belt.

I would just continue doing your job. The job that you were hired for. When the ship sinks you did what you were supposed to do. Let her take the fall. And I would start looking for other jobs too.

If there is an option I’d take over her job. But I’m a hard nosed biotch. I’d also take the others advice and document “everything”. Plus I’d work very hard, be very professional in order to secure a great reference for plan “c” in case I need to leave.

Sit her on the naughty step until supernanny comes along.

I would go with C also. The sooner you get out of there the better.

A or C

B just lowers you to her level.

Thankfully I can say I’ve never experienced this.

Get her some Legos to keep her busy.

Give her a lollipop.

Now what do I have to do to see those “removed by fluther moderators” remarks? They gotta be good!

If you can afford to do it—Johnny Paycheck wrote a very nice thing to say.

I would get a new job. This does not seem like something that is going to change. And if she really is childish then she will not be open to constructive criticism. Sounds like you will just be miserable. Of course you have to remember the job market is really difficult right now so don’t quit until you get hired somewhere else. In the meantime can you play on facebook too while at work?

Of course you could always make a real life “The Office” and just film her and have a good time over it. :P

I wouldn’t trust this cookie not to make it look like you are to blame for problems. What’s to stop her from lying, and why wouldn’t her family take her side against you? The longer you stick around and the more threatened she feels, the more likely that you get set up to take a hit for some failure or screwup of hers.

I would make it a priority to move on while not burning any bridges until you can afford it. In this economy it could take longer than you’d like.

@Jeruba you make a good point.

Working in an establishment run by ‘family’ is always difficult. As stated above, document every instance that relates to your issues, and perhaps a time will come when you can present your side. In the meantime, keep up a search for another position.

It’s a family business, so it is unlikely that anything you say, or anything you document, is going to matter one whit to whomever you deal with. They are allowing her to act this way, so it is obvious that they don’t care. I’m sorry, but this is a classic example of “it’s not waht you know, but who you know.”

If your tolerance for it is waning this rapidly, GET OUT. It isn’t good for you.