Gregg also cited his 30 years working without a boss--as a House representative, governor and senator--as a factor, saying he was unsure he'd be a good fit for any Cabinet.
His problems within the party have been exacerbated by a falling out between two of his junior ministers, Henry McLeish and Brian Wilson, who seem more interested in pursuing their private vendetta than working for their boss.
Anyone working for a tough boss has heard that line a time or two.
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Often people would rather quit than continue working for such a boss.
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Rachel Cohen had a paralegal job working for a verbally abusive boss who sometimes left her in tears.
DiSilvestro says that only once in his 21 years of working for Hays did the boss become visibly angry with him.
In the corporate world your salary is dependent on too many variables, most of which are defined by the actions of others: how big the company is, how well the team around you is working, how much your boss likes you.
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The prosecution allege that Mr Tatar assisted Mr Nadir in the dishonest movement of money from PPI and enjoyed a close working relationship with the Polly Peck boss.
After Senator Wirth became undersecretary of state for global affairs in the Clinton-Gore administration, he began working closely with Enron's boss, Kenneth Lay, to lobby Congress to grant the EPA the authority to control CO2.
Sure, a lot of telecommuters can keep working on company reports, write speeches for the boss, fill orders that come in via the Web, and do pretty much anything that requires working on a laptop.
When his boss told him to quit working on lasers, he continued in secret.
He was working with Jack Buck, and CBS boss Bob Wussler thought the two commentators sounded too much alike.
Edward Simons, of Mr Warren's Sports Network, told Mr Justice Wyn Williams that his boss had a "good working relationship" with the Calzaghe team.
"I'm delighted we have signed such a quality player, and I am looking forward to working with him, " said City boss Sven-Goran Eriksson.
Free doughnuts in the break room, cakes in honor of co-workers' birthdays and pepperoni pizza, ordered by the boss to reward staff for working overtime, can take a toll on employees' waistlines.
Lord Birt, a former BBC boss, was much criticised for working simultaneously for Downing Street and McKinsey.
"He's got undoubted talent and I'm looking forward to working with him next season, " said boss Tony Mowbray.
Yet although she enjoys being her own boss, she also thinks that working in a hawker stall is not a job for young people.
John Santini, its boss, says his company is working on drug delivery with a big pharmaceuticals firm, and that his laboratory curiosity will be a commercial reality within three to five years.
Back in June the Las Vegas Review Journal reported on a 1996 incident in which Berkley, then working for the Sands Hotel, advised her boss to give a job to the uncle of a Clark County commissioner in order to win the official's support for a new hotel project.
Their new selling points are sandwiches with the boss, opportunities for advancement, flexible working hours and more holiday time.
Nine percent of workers who played hooky wanted to skip a meeting, spend time working on an overdue project or avoid the wrath of a boss or colleague.
Therefore, events are working against Zhou Xiaochuan, and so is Chen Deming, the boss of the Ministry of Commerce.
By next year, phones that act as digital cameras will be on the market, allowing users to video-conference in traffic jams, type letters to their boss from Bali, and basically play hooky from the office while still working.
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Former risk management boss Robert W. Jones, named in the suit, isn't working yet, nor is former chief operating officer Charles Winkler, who has been chastised for talking up the fund just prior to its demise.
My boss, Eric Savitz (who first suggested I dive in to the world of working for Turk), has just asked me what kind of peripherals are available for the new Thunderbolt ports appearing on the latest Apple computers.
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The men were hungry, but their boss in the white helmet was a bit skeptical when I told him a guy working at a hot dog cart some 10 blocks away claimed to have 50 hot dogs he could sell them.
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Through a small, saving grace, I had a boss who was a dog lover, himself, and did his best to accommodate my working from home sometimes so Mordred wouldn't have to be alone -- and because I was terrified of what we would come home to.
"Artur has been working with us for a while and he has a great deal of potential, " said the Swans boss.
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