How To Politely Tell Your Boss To ‘Fuck Off’

Jay Spring
8 min readMay 9, 2021
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Seriously. Fuck your boss.

Let’s be honest: everyone wants to say ‘fuck off’ to their boss. Yet, the weird corporate power dynamic leaves us shaking in the knees regarding actual work confrontation.

Yeah, you may have those hypothetical arguments in the shower or while stuck in rush hour traffic. Still, when the moment comes, you retreat too much, giving your boss the edge.

“Ranking on the lower level of the professional totem pole seems to make a lot of people passive or perhaps they are there because they are passive.” — Steven Montenko

Yet, you don’t have to be passive.

There are productive ways to properly tell your boss to “fuck off” without explicitly telling them to “fuck off.” You just have to play their game and ask five simple questions.

Note: While I wholeheartedly stand behind this advice (as it has worked for me), I can’t guarantee the same results. But hey, they’re all the better than dropping an f-bomb in the office.

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Jay Spring

Co-Founder and Creative Director of The Bro Journal, outdoor enthusiast, and mindfulness buff. Oh yeah, and a second-rate writer — thebrojournal.com