The phrase "awful boss" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a supervisor or manager who is perceived as ineffective, unpleasant, or difficult to work with.
Example: "Many employees left the company due to the awful boss who created a toxic work environment."
Alternatives: "terrible manager" or "horrible supervisor.".
ALSO OF NOTE -- Ricky Gervais is an exquisitely awful boss in "The Office," Mr. Gervais's acidic and quietly outrageous comedy, set in a gloomy British paper company.
You'll be hard pressed to find a worker in the UK who doesn't have horror stories to share about an awful boss.
Amis modeled Jim's awful girlfriend on Larkin's awful girlfriend, and Jim's awful boss on his own first father-in-law, as described to Larkin in letters.
David, who is no longer at Wernham Hogg, has had a few minutes of minor celebrity — as "that awful boss" — and he makes embarrassing public appearances that end badly.
As a BBC trainee in the late 90s, Stephen Merchant made a short film in which he cast his friend, Ricky Gervais, as the awful boss of a small paper firm.
It's great to watch the whole series at once, noticing how it has changed and evolved from the first episode – which is about The Guy getting stoned with a client who has an awful boss in a hotel room – to something that is much more ambitious and human.
You take tentative steps, always walk with your shield raised, watch while the game's awful bosses swing their giant clubs and scythes at you in order to learn their rhythms of combat.
Perhaps you both have controlling mothers-in-law, awful bosses, trying adolescent children.
In every field, there are great bosses and awful bosses -- bosses who support their employees and those who terrorize their staff while managing to obey employment law.
Respect is not earned by a title -- there are plenty of blatantly awful bosses -- it's earned by action, as I've learned via Dr. Phil and negative work experiences.
Among them is "A Star Is Born," a remake of the 1976 film that is expected to star Russell Crowe; "Blended," a comedy about the merging of two families from "Valentine's Day" producer Mike Karz; and "Horrible Bosses," a dark comedy in which friends conspire to murder their awful bosses.
