Think you have it tough? Imagine these TV bosses in your office

1. Lou Avery (Allan Havey), 'Mad Men,' AMC

The advertising execs on “Mad Men” are, by and large, a co♐llection of tools who routinely treat their secretaries and underlings badly.

Enough has be𒅌en written about the dark sides of Don Draper, Roger Sterling and company to fill the Library of Congress, but we would like to add one more guy: Lou Avery. Lou is the kind of callous, condescending egomaniac some of us have met all-too-often in the workplace.

He’s not chasing skirts and boozing it up from 9-to-5 like most of the Sterling Cooper crowd, but he 🐠treats women so badly that he needs his own niche in Boss Hel𒅌l.

As a matter of course, he likes his own ideas best and dismisses any presented to him by the obviously more creative Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss), who should really have his job. On Sunday’s episode, he cavalierly di💃smissed his secretary Dawn (Teyonah Parris) because she was relaying information to disgraced employee Don Draper (Jon Hamm).

Thank God Joan (Christina Hendricks) came to t🌠he rescue and gave the beleaguered underling her office — in effect, a promotion.

2. Michael Scott (Steve Carell), 'The Office,' NBC

The regional 💛manager of the Dunder Mufflin paper company was promoted to that position from salesman, but found that particular skill set was not really appropriate for a managerial position.

He treaꦅted work-related relationships as personal friendships,𒐪 which he acknowledged was more difficult because his colleagues are all lower than him in the hierarchy.

He overestimated his own importance in the eyes of🃏 𝓀his co-workers.

3. Wilhelmina Slater (Vanessa Williams), 'Ugly Betty,' ABC

Mode mꦯagazine creative director Wilhelmina Slater was a rapacious, back-stabbing glamorpuss who would stop at nothing in her quest to become editor-in-chief.

She treated her assistant Marc (Michael Urie) badly, seduced the publisher of the magazine — and then visited his wife in a detox center, offering ༺a slug of vodk🍰a, to get her to sign over power of attorney.

She was eventually appointed editor-in-chief, but her victory was fleeting. Wilhelmina was demoted back to creative director when sales꧙ plunged. 

4. Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), '30 Rock,' NBC

The NBC executive and former General Electric Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming (Alec Baldwin) regularly interfered with the creative decision-making of writer Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), foisting Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) on her as star of “The Girlie Show,🅘” and even ✱changing the name of the show to “TGS with Tracy Jordan” without consulting Liz. 

5. Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), 'Scandal,' ABC

Olivia prides herself on her ability to manage crises, but she has never been able to behave professionally, proven by her long-term affair with President Fitzgerald Gra𓂃nt (Tony Goldwyn).

It took her several years to admit that she sets a terrible exa♕mple for her staff and that all scandals lead back to her, before she wisely resigned from her own company in the season finale. 

6. Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) 'Damages,' FX

Patty Hewes wᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚas a brilliant attorney with a vicious streak she never quite c🏅onquered.

She could beat anybody in the courtroom and her oppoꩲnents were justifiably intimidated by her. But so were her employees, particularly Ellen Parsons (Rose By𓄧rne), a protégée Patty almost had murdered. Temper, temper!

7. Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin), 'Homeland,' Showtime

How this guy got to be the acting head oꦐf the CIA is one o🌊f the great unsolved mysteries of “Homeland.”

Saul made so many bad judgment c𒈔alls that to name them all would make us enraged all over again.

Sending an obviously impaireꦐd Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) into a mental institution as a way to draw out another one of this series’ endless list of terrorists was probably ꦦthe most egregious.

Saul was replaced by a r🀅eal administrator, ꦗSen. Andrew Lockhart (Tracy Letts).

8. Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven), 'Entourage,' HBO

Say the words “Holly wood agent” and images of Nobel prizes and Purple Hearts do not immediately ꧒spring to mind.

Ari Gold, though, was one of a ki📖nd. He went through assistants like water and sorely tested the loyalty of Lloyd Lee, making frequent, unnecessary remarks about his sexual orientati🔯on and ethnicity (gay and Chinese, respectively).

When Lloyd tried to branch out on his own, Ari tried to make sure no one in LA wo🍃uld work with him again.

9. William Masters (Michael Sheen), 'Masters of Sex,' Showtime

When 🌼conducting a study into human sexual response, is it really the best idea to organize after-hours clinical orgies in your office to gather data?

I෴s it really the best idea to participate in the study yourself, copulating with your research assistant, Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan), while your pregnant wife (Caitlin Fitzgerald) waits at home?

W🥃e’re going to say, no, Dr. Masters (Michael Sheen). The inevitable has happened. You ღhave fallen for Virginia while your wife has given birth. Bad form.

10. Julia Louis Dreyfus (Selina Meyer), 'Veep,' HBO

Self-absorbed, conniving and demanding, Vice Presiden🌠t Selina Mey𒆙er is kind of inept, which is what you expect in politics nowadays.

She’s also got a mouth like a truck dr💛iver and expects her overworked sꦏtaff to be at her beck-and-call 24/7.