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I think you're probably right. It goes with the territory. Most people hate their jobs period (polls have shown this consistently), so most are going to dislike the boss and everything he/she represents. Most people don't enjoy getting up 5 or more days a week to work and be told what to do. From my own experience, I've never enjoyed my job(s) - I'd rather play all day - but I've been relatively indifferent to bosses. I've never had a bad boss. I've never been treated harshly, unfairly, etc. I've never had a female boss either so I've never been able to test if I have a gender bias.
An employee also lacks information to decide when the boss is being a slave driver or not because they don't have access to the bottom line. When the boss asks you for the extra hour or to get something done, it could be crucial to the business or it could be the boss is just a hardass. The employee does not know so will usually judge the boss as a hardass not realizing how important it is.
In larger companies, I think a lot of employees never make the connection that the more successful the company is, the better the chances of them having a job to go to every day. I recall my dad who worked at a company for years. When employees found out that the plant was likely to close due to outsourcing, production from that plant skyrocketed overnight. In other words, even with good pay and good treatment, workers did the bare minimum and only actually worked when they thought it could potentially save the plant from closure.
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