PHOTOSHOP: rotate and maintain original relative bounding box for further translations

hi there, if this has been answered already im sorry, i have a disability reading and often miss things or search wrong on these DIY tech supports. OK here is the Q. 

I'm in PHOTOSHOP and often need to rotate an object or group of layers then do what would have been a horizontal or vertical scale, but post-rotation the bounding box resets to a new document-centric box, so if i scale, i get a skewed outcome. ( think of letters for a simple visualization)  . 

so i'm looking for a way to rotate and maintain an original object-centric bounding box for future translations. 

thanks for your help my fellow photoshoppers.