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Ok, because Eutrusca gave me the idea, I'm starting a "Worst Boss Ever" thread. Rant, rave, and share your stories about horibble/stupid/confusing/whatever things your boss(es) have done/said to you or to other people. Enjoy!

Heres mine, I copied it from the thread where Eutrusca gave me the idea for this thread:

Originally Posted by The NAS Rebels
Grrr, I don't have a job any more, I got fired because I had the audacticy to not come into work on a day I had been approved off two months in advance for. It turns out my boss erased my name from the request off book and said I never requested off. And he changed the work hours schledule to make it look like I had work. Grrrrrrrrr...

My worst boss

1) Misrepresented the job I was being hired for. Rather than managing a liquor store, I was basically a stockboy. The boss (owner) micromanaged everything. I was told I'd be making decisions on what items to order, have responsibility for maintaining inventory, and be in a position to schedule other worker's hours. I got none of that.

2) Never paid for overtime hours which I always worked.

3) Kept the radio in the store tuned to a top-40 pop station all day long. When you hear "I beleive I can fly" some 7 or 8 times a day every day you want to test the theory by jumping from a tall building.

She wasn't all that bad, but bad enough to make me quit and risk unemployment rather than stay there.

My story is much more humorous. I work for a telecommunications CO. Our CEO who has been paid millions of dollars & given a private jet to lead our company into bankruptcy twice now decided to have the entire leadership team dress in costume & hand out candy to all employees on the floor. So she is going around in a witches costume handing out candy to a row of employees when the vice president of sales tells her that he already gave candy to thet row.
Now when I say candy I'm talking about a one cent tootsie roll. Not like a whole 75 cent milky way bar or something a 1 cent tootsie roll.

She proceeds to go down the row & take the candy back from everyone she gave an "extra" piece to.

Then a week later she laid off 25% of the people in my department.
I'd hate to see the layoff figures for if she hadn't taken those tootsie rolls back.

My worst boss

3) Kept the radio in the store tuned to a top-40 pop station all day long. When you hear "I beleive I can fly" some 7 or 8 times a day every day you want to test the theory by jumping from a tall building.


Thats better then having to hear Disco Inferno and Grls Just Want To Have Fun 15 times a day sung by Chuck E Cheese characters...

Botswombata']My story is much more humorous. I work for a telecommunications CO. Our CEO who has been paid millions of dollars & given a private jet to lead our company into bankruptcy twice now decided to have the entire leadership team dress in costume & hand out candy to all employees on the floor. So she is going around in a witches costume handing out candy to a row of employees when the vice president of sales tells her that he already gave candy to thet row.
Now when I say candy I'm talking about a one cent tootsie roll. Not like a whole 75 cent milky way bar or something a 1 cent tootsie roll.

She proceeds to go down the row & take the candy back from everyone she gave an "extra" piece to.

Then a week later she laid off 25% of the people in my department.
I'd hate to see the layoff figures for if she hadn't taken those tootsie rolls back.
I hate people in "management" who can't seem to manage to keep the company afloat without laying people off. I wonder if management could manage to hold down a real job and make ends meet? I wish more of them would get fired so we could find out.

Botswombata']My story is much more humorous. I work for a telecommunications CO. Our CEO who has been paid millions of dollars & given a private jet to lead our company into bankruptcy twice now decided to have the entire leadership team dress in costume & hand out candy to all employees on the floor. So she is going around in a witches costume handing out candy to a row of employees when the vice president of sales tells her that he already gave candy to thet row.
Now when I say candy I'm talking about a one cent tootsie roll. Not like a whole 75 cent milky way bar or something a 1 cent tootsie roll.

She proceeds to go down the row & take the candy back from everyone she gave an "extra" piece to.

Then a week later she laid off 25% of the people in my department.
I'd hate to see the layoff figures for if she hadn't taken those tootsie rolls back.

Ahahahahahaha

Thats better then having to hear Disco Inferno and Grls Just Want To Have Fun 15 times a day sung by Chuck E Cheese characters...
I suppose, but it's like choosing between being sent to the electric chair or burned at the stake. They both suck.

I hate people in "management" who can't seem to manage to keep the company afloat without laying people off. I wonder if management could manage to hold down a real job and make ends meet? I wish more of them would get fired so we could find out.
are you kidding? lay off a ceo that has caused a bankrupcy more than once in the company he was ceo of and he will have a new job within the hour. companies must have bragging contests about how bad their ceos are

Ihatevacations']are you kidding? lay off a ceo that has caused a bankrupcy more than once in the company he was ceo of and he will have a new job within the hour. companies must have bragging contests about how bad their ceos are
That certainly seems to be the case. I'd just love to see them working at KFC or fixing septic tanks though. That would be cool.

Something along the lines of "Our CEO couldn't find his rear end with both hands and a map, but we're still raking it in hand over fist"?

I suppose, but it's like choosing between being sent to the electric chair or burned at the stake. They both suck.

Ahahahaha well put, well put.

A friend of mine was a parter with like a psychotic lady. She had started the practice so I guess she was the boss. Well, one day with out notice, she comes in and fire's my friend's secretary, billing lady, etc. They both spent a TON of money fighting over a computer system.... They ended up paying more for the lawyers than the computer system was worth. And my friend ended up loosing. She's happy now though because she's the boss.

I worked in a doctor's office, and I quit because, in addition to making my life hell in a variety of creative ways, she accused me of stealing her tweezers. Not even something sharp, like scissors, or something interesting, like a clamp. Tweezers.

Um, yeah. What the hell am I going to do with a pair or doctor's tweezers?

:eek: :mp5:

An AVP I worked for was sleeping with her boss, the VP. She was a dimwit, and everyone knew it. At least when you did a project, you got full credit for it, because everyone knew she was incapable of much of anything.

But in addition to being a dolt, she had a total lack of professional communication skills. When I advised her of my pregnancy, she told me “That’s too bad, you’re a really good employee. You don’t impress me as the mothering type.” It was all I could do to not reply “Well, you don’t impress me as the managerial type, either, but see where getting laid got us?

At my first place of employment, I was doing surveys over the phone. It was a shit job, but I was good; always over my quota, on time, whatever.
My fourth or fifth pay check comes, and even though I worked about 90 hours for the two weeks that the check is forway less than it shold be; less than it usually is. No problem, I think, I'll bring it up with my supervisor... I do, and instead of being helpful or sympathetic like I expected, she was defensive, then offensive. She outright accused me of lying, and trying to steal. She informed me that "if [the company] paid everyone the money they said they had been shorted, we'd be out of business". The company is not viable. Got it.
Bitch.

Nice thread! :D

I have so many that it's difficult to choose, but I would have to say that the absolute worst boss I ever had was the owner of a medium size mirror manufacturing company in Thomasville, NC. He hired me as Personnel Manager because of my educaton and extensive experience in personnel. Turns out he loved to hire relatively high-powered people but didn't allow them to act as professionals with any degree of independence at all. I figured out that he wanted a personnel manager primarily to take the fall if ( and when! ) any of several federal agencies decided to take action against him because of the idiotic way he managed his company.

He discriminated against minorities ( we had a major argument about this! ), he paid women doing the same work far less than he paid men, he consistently violated the Fair Labor Standards law, the Worker's Compensation law, the Equal Employment laws, and more others than I care to mention here!

But the worst thing he did was to use highly volitile chemicals in the manufacturing process without informing his employees of the hazards involved, without providing adequate safety measures, without any of the legally required exterior chemical warning signs used so firefighters would know what to expect, and on and on. He was using lead-based chemicals and having people working around them without any sort of protection at all! You could almost see the employees' mental processes slow down! :(

I taught myself how to decipher the various chemicals involved in the manufacturing process, how to write material data sheets, etc., and proceded to post the legally mandated Material Safety Data Sheets ( MSDS ), exterior warning notices, chemical container lables, and other mandated information all over the plant. I also contracted with a local firm to provide all the legally mandated safety equipment for employees.

Instead of appreciating the fact that I was saving him from virtually inevitable lawsuits ( not to mention saving his employees from death, disease and injury! ), he went ballistic. He told me to take down all the MSDS and to cancel the contract for the safety equipment.

I told him, in a very nice way of course, to go fuck himself; that I wasn't going to go to jail with him when the feds came to take him away.

He fired me. I gladly left.

Nice thread! :D

I have so many that it's difficult to choose, but I would have to say that the absolute worst boss I ever had was the owner of a medium size mirror manufacturing company in Thomasville, NC. He hired me as Personnel Manager because of my educaton and extensive experience in personnel. Turns out he loved to hire relatively high-powered people but didn't allow them to act as professionals with any degree of independence at all. I figured out that he wanted a personnel manager primarily to take the fall if ( and when! ) any of several federal agencies decided to take action against him because of the idiotic way he managed his company.

He discriminated against minorities ( we had a major argument about this! ), he paid women doing the same work far less than he paid men, he consistently violated the Fair Labor Standards law, the Worker's Compensation law, the Equal Employment laws, and more others than I care to mention here!

But the worst thing he did was to use highly volitile chemicals in the manufacturing process without informing his employees of the hazards involved, without providing adequate safety measures, without any of the legally required exterior chemical warning signs used so firefighters would know what to expect, and on and on. He was using lead-based chemicals and having people working around them without any sort of protection at all! You could almost see the employees' mental processes slow down! :(

I taught myself how to decipher the various chemicals involved in the manufacturing process, how to write material data sheets, etc., and proceded to post the legally mandated Material Safety Data Sheets ( MSDS ), exterior warning notices, chemical container lables, and other mandated information all over the plant. I also contracted with a local firm to provide all the legally mandated safety equipment for employees.

Instead of appreciating the fact that I was saving him from virtually inevitable lawsuits ( not to mention saving his employees from death, disease and injury! ), he went ballistic. He told me to take down all the MSDS and to cancel the contract for the safety equipment.

I told him, in a very nice way of course, to go fuck himself; that I wasn't going to go to jail with him when the feds came to take him away.

He fired me. I gladly left.
Did the feds eventually send him to lovely camp Leavenworth? Scumbag like that sure deserves it.

Did the feds eventually send him to lovely camp Leavenworth? Scumbag like that sure deserves it.

I agree.

Nice thread! :D

I have so many that it's difficult to choose, but I would have to say that the absolute worst boss I ever had was the owner of a medium size mirror manufacturing company in Thomasville, NC. He hired me as Personnel Manager because of my educaton and extensive experience in personnel. Turns out he loved to hire relatively high-powered people but didn't allow them to act as professionals with any degree of independence at all. I figured out that he wanted a personnel manager primarily to take the fall if ( and when! ) any of several federal agencies decided to take action against him because of the idiotic way he managed his company.

He discriminated against minorities ( we had a major argument about this! ), he paid women doing the same work far less than he paid men, he consistently violated the Fair Labor Standards law, the Worker's Compensation law, the Equal Employment laws, and more others than I care to mention here!

But the worst thing he did was to use highly volitile chemicals in the manufacturing process without informing his employees of the hazards involved, without providing adequate safety measures, without any of the legally required exterior chemical warning signs used so firefighters would know what to expect, and on and on. He was using lead-based chemicals and having people working around them without any sort of protection at all! You could almost see the employees' mental processes slow down! :(

I taught myself how to decipher the various chemicals involved in the manufacturing process, how to write material data sheets, etc., and proceded to post the legally mandated Material Safety Data Sheets ( MSDS ), exterior warning notices, chemical container lables, and other mandated information all over the plant. I also contracted with a local firm to provide all the legally mandated safety equipment for employees.

Instead of appreciating the fact that I was saving him from virtually inevitable lawsuits ( not to mention saving his employees from death, disease and injury! ), he went ballistic. He told me to take down all the MSDS and to cancel the contract for the safety equipment.

I told him, in a very nice way of course, to go fuck himself; that I wasn't going to go to jail with him when the feds came to take him away.

He fired me. I gladly left.

how would you like to sue the company for so much that he's out on the street and you own the company? Send me a message--I'm an attorney and I'd be glad to go over your case and tell you what it would be worth. Based on what you said, it sounds like it would be alot.

how would you like to sue the company for so much that he's out on the street and you own the company? Send me a message--I'm an attorney and I'd be glad to go over your case and tell you what it would be worth. Based on what you said, it sounds like it would be alot.
LOL! Where were you when all this was going on, back in about 1989? :D

The owner has since died and his son now runs the company.

LOL! Where were you when all this was going on, back in about 1989? :D

The owner has since died and his son now runs the company.

BOO! Sue him anyway, the son's probablly just as bad! :p

Did the feds eventually send him to lovely camp Leavenworth? Scumbag like that sure deserves it.
No. He was dinged by a couple of federal agencies after I left, but he pretty much got away with a slap on the wrist. He later died and his son took over the company.

No. He was dinged by a couple of federal agencies after I left, but he pretty much got away with a slap on the wrist. He later died and his son took over the company.
Well, at least he died.

I still say sue the son!! lol

BOO! Sue him anyway, the son's probablly just as bad! :p
So I've been told, although I have no personal knowledge of that.

LOL! Where were you when all this was going on, back in about 1989? :D

The owner has since died and his son now runs the company.

In 1989, I was in 8th Grade.---OUCH!

Botswombata']Then a week later she laid off 25% of the people in my department.
I'd hate to see the layoff figures for if she hadn't taken those tootsie rolls back.
Hahahahaha!!! You should send that one to Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy.

In 1989, I was in 8th Grade.---OUCH!
ROFL! My point exactly. But, as they say, lawyers are born, not made! :D

In 1989, I was in 8th Grade.---OUCH!In 1989, I was two. Or rather, I turned two in December of that year. I was one for all but seven days of that year.

LOL! Where were you when all this was going on, back in about 1989? :D

The owner has since died and his son now runs the company.

Just so my credibility isn't brought into question, my first question for you would have been when all of this occurred. Them dern statutes of limitation!

Hahahahaha!!! You should send that one to Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy.
he probably has that one, i'd have to check my comic book though under tab "bosses are cheap bastards"

In 1989, I was two. Or rather, I turned two in December of that year. I was one for all but seven days of that year.
Awww! I'll bet you were a cutie too! Kootchie koo! :D

Awww! I'll bet you were a cutie too! Kootchie koo! :D

Ahahahahahahaha

I dunno. Sephiroth and Ganondorf are pretty bad-ass bosses.

Ahahahahahahaha
:D

I had a seriously incompetent boss in the Summer Camp I usually work at.
The management consists of the Camp Director and the Program Director. Basically, the CD was responsible for running the camp, while the PD was responsible for the program. Somehow, the CD always managed to find ways to piss our PD off. Withholding information and trying to get the staff to go against our PD (who was incredibly popular).

At one time, I talked to the CD because I'd managed to convince my little sister to work for a short while. He said it was ok and that he'd take care of things. The day my sister was supposed to come, she didn't because she and my mom hadn't received the contract yet. I went to ask the PD about this and he was surprised to hear the CD had hired another staffer! :headbang:

At some meetings, the CD, who was rather fat, had his fly unzipped and didn't notice. This was in part because of his massive belly but also because no one had the courage to tell him. So he'd walk around the room with his fly open during the whole meeting... and his massive body only made things worse - it forced the fly to be pulled wide open.

I had a seriously incompetent boss in the Summer Camp I usually work at.
The management consists of the Camp Director and the Program Director. Basically, the CD was responsible for running the camp, while the PD was responsible for the program. Somehow, the CD always managed to find ways to piss our PD off. Withholding information and trying to get the staff to go against our PD (who was incredibly popular).

At one time, I talked to the CD because I'd managed to convince my little sister to work for a short while. He said it was ok and that he'd take care of things. The day my sister was supposed to come, she didn't because she and my mom hadn't received the contract yet. I went to ask the PD about this and he was surprised to hear the CD had hired another staffer! :headbang:

At some meetings, the CD, who was rather fat, had his fly unzipped and didn't notice. This was in part because of his massive belly but also because no one had the courage to tell him. So he'd walk around the room with his fly open during the whole meeting... and his massive body only made things worse - it forced the fly to be pulled wide open.
Ewwww! [ hurls ] ;)

Ewwww! [ hurls ] ;)He always told jokes that weren't funny either.

The hilarious thing was when I took a trip to Munich for an interview during the time. I found the Worst Case Scenario Guidebook for Work with a full description of Nightmare Bosses... the whole staff had a laugh at that one and we were considering posting the draft for the I quit letter in the back of the book all around the camp office...

He always told jokes that weren't funny either.

The hilarious thing was when I took a trip to Munich for an interview during the time. I found the Worst Case Scenario Guidebook for Work with a full description of Nightmare Bosses... the whole staff had a laugh at that one and we were considering posting the draft for the I quit letter in the back of the book all around the camp office...

Lol that would have been funny to see his reaction to that!

The Omega Pirate in Metroid Prime. I spent like three hours alone just trying to kill it!
Oh wait, that's not the type of boss you're talking about, is it? :p

Lol that would have been funny to see his reaction to that!He'd have been pissed and blamed the world for converging on him as he usually did.