Bob Sutton reports worker dissatisfaction is at an all time high in America. Less than half of all workers are satisfied with their jobs.

He says many workers are laying in wait and will dash for the exits when the job market improves.

Sutton points to research which shows people quit bosses, not jobs or companies.

The exodus has already started in New Zealand. Recently, in Companies lose as staff look elsewhere, the New Zealand Herald reported "Fifty-three per cent of New Zealand workers are leaving their jobs within the first two years of being employed".

It all comes down to bosses not being in touch with how employees really feel.

If you're a boss and you saw the recent recession as an opportunity to pressure staff, you are a stupid arsehole and you deserve to lose all your good people. And you will lose them. It's too late to fix the problem now.

Sutton, who wrote The No Asshole Rule warns power often goes to the head of bosses who are blind to their shortcomings.

He says even good bosses who behaved well during the recession should take stock and start treating workers even better. The day of reckoning is near.

Dear Bosses: Is It Your Last Chance To Reverse Your Vile Ways? Or Is It Too Late? – Bob Sutton.

On one level the email staff memo republished by Bob Sutton on his excellent web site is funny. It sounds as if Fawlty Towers was run by someone with Lenny Bruce's vocabulary.

On the other level, it is disturbing just how bad some managers can behave. And it must harm the business.

Bob Sutton: Asshole Boss of the Year?. (Warning, the language may cause offence).

The No Asshole Rule author Bob Sutton hits the nail on the head again. The quote comes from his post:  The Enron Code of Ethics: Something Every Boss Should Read.

British sleazeballs think ethics is the county directly East of London.

Bob Sutton dug up this brilliant quote from Peter Drucker.

Like Sutton I think some meetings are essential, but both Sutton and Drucker are right: they are too often a substitute for real work.

Bob Sutton: Peter Drucker: "One Either Meets or One Works".

Does this man look like an ass or an arse to you?

Where I come from it would be arse-hole. But who’s enough of one to niggle?

Either way, the arse-hole collar isn’t just an American thing. In my experience British and Australian arse-hole managers wear them too.

New Zealanders don’t.

But then hardly anyone in New Zealand wears a collar and tie to work these days. Of course it's different when you're expecing a visitor from overseas, at a formal function or making a sales call.

The comments on Bob’s post mention bow-ties also indicate arse-hole managers. That’s not as universal a truth as the whole white collar on coloured shirt thing, but yes, there is correlation there too.

What I’d like to know is how does one identify a female arse-hole boss?

Bob Sutton: The Asshole Collar.