Two bosses who hate eachother.

The solution is a Thunderdome and/or Highlander type situation. Call boss 1, ask to meet them in a designated room, then call boss 2, and ask to meet them in the same location at the same time. Lock the door, consider leaving weapons.

There can be only one/ 2 bosses enter, 1 boss leaves.
 
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1664kronenbourg said:
Picture the scene. You're in a job where two of your bosses hate each other. One tells yout to do something but the other boss tells you something different. What do you do?
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You report directly to 2 bosses? These bosses are of the same managerial level?

Seems an odd working practice to employ 2 people doing the same managerial role...
 
1664kronenbourg said:
Picture the scene. You're in a job where two of your bosses hate each other. One tells yout to do something but the other boss tells you something different. What do you do?
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I would say to one boss "X told me to do it like this; is it worth you talking through the best solution with them? Also X said you had bad breath".
 
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Maybe they're secretly a couple and are just pretending to hate each other to throw people off the scent - whilst getting gratuitous laughs messing with you.
 
1664kronenbourg said:
Picture the scene. You're in a job where two of your bosses hate each other. One tells yout to do something but the other boss tells you something different. What do you do?
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Are these directors, incorporated directors or just managers?

What's the scale of organisation?

Ensure a clear delineation of tasks, oversight and priorities.

You have to set very very firm boundaries as do they.

If the two leads can't accept that and respect each other, why should they accept its reasonable for you to hold the equilibrium against an impossible dynamic of shifting prisms?

A bit more detail will help me offer some more useful advice hopefully.
 
You play them against each other like a rational adult. Rumours, hiding staplers in each others' desks, that kind of thing. Also look down on each other, "oh I see you have two sugars in your tea, otherboss has cut out sugar altogether, he seems so much more cheerful now"

Report back pls.
 
I suspect the OP is suggesting the issue is that their boss is telling them to do one thing and their boss’s line manager is directly asking them to do something else?

That can be quite an awkward situation to be in.
 
Go to their boss and report and go to HR. The adult equivalent of telling teacher.
Also make a concurrent thread at Mumsnet about it
 
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If I was in that situation, I'd make a list of all these instances then call a meeting. Just say you are getting confused and that it's wasting time.
If your manasgers manager is asking him to get you to do X, and he's telling you Y, and it's been going on for a while, he's not equiped to deal with it.

You just have to say you need to tell me who I am working for, as after today I am doing the things this person is asking.

also, try and get everything on an email so you have evidence if it ever came to it.
 
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