the buzz log
A good boss determines the success of the company, the happiness of the employees, and the state of the supply cabinet. Fortunately, surveys find most American workers would give a positive review to their higher-ups. The Buzz minions back it up with an 113% surge in searches for "national boss day." Loyal employees wouldn't even trade their boss for someone with more glam. Still, we did check the Buzz in-box and found searchers checking out a few larger-than-life bigwigs, ranging from beleaguered to tyrannical...
| Big Cheese | Workplace | Resume |
| Donald Trump | "The Apprentice" | The top Buzz boss has Trumped-up the New York skyline, fascinated us with his marital pursuits, and made exit interviews national entertainment. |
| Janice Dickinson | "The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency" | After getting fired and going through a surreal experience, the "world's first supermodel" breathed easier with her Oxygen hit. |
| Michael Scott | "The Office" | Admiring searches for Steve Carell and his keen portrayal of an incompetent blowhard put his character in the executive Buzz seat. |
| Gordon Ramsay | "Hell's Kitchen" | His exacting taste buds and foul mouth have made the chef a reality TV treat on both sides of the pond. |
| Dr. Miranda Bailey | "Grey's Anatomy" | Yet another thespian makes an impression as Chandra Wilson commands look-ups as the residents' "Nazi." |
| Montgomery Burns | "The Simpsons" | Of all the bosses, this robber baron inspires the most searches for his words of wisdom. |
| JR Ewing | "Dallas" | He was the subject of one of the biggest cliffhangers in TV history. The second-biggest is whether the movie will ever get made. |
| Dr. Lisa Cuddy | "House" | Managing a misanthrope makes her one of the few bosses to win our sympathy. |
| Boss Hogg | "The Dukes of Hazzard" | The sputtering oaf always got thwarted by the Duke boys, but searchers still cotton to the incorrigible schemer. |
| Franklin Hart, Jr. | "Nine to Five" | Dabney Coleman's character inspired a worker's anthem and was deemed worthy of a widescreen comeback 26 years later. |
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what's the buzz?
A subject's buzz score is the percentage of Yahoo! users searching for that subject on a given day, multiplied by a constant to make the number easier to read. Weekly leaders are the subjects with the greatest average buzz score for a given week.
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