Wiktionary
boss about
vb. To act in a bossy manner with another person, ordering them to do things, whether or not one is actually their superior.
Usage examples of "boss about".
He's going to tell the boss about the profits that can come from protecting merchants and increasing their trade, but taxing them only a little-especially if each boss is a silent partner with each merchant.
I was gonna talk to the Boss about sendin' Nunzio out to replace me as their backup man.
I told my boss about the blazing, strangely shaped white patch in the Core.
The gal said Tyger had cussed her boss about those hundred-dollar notes before gunning him, as if it had been the poor paymaster's fault.