misery loves company: bad boss stories

[Anonymous]

I have been having a minor panic attack reading about these monsters in charge.

With so many Ph.D.s unemployed or working as janitors how is this %$#& even possible/

[Anonymous]

I just clicked on this and realized that I am the OP from this thread. Just to provide a happy story: I changed jobs after 6 months with the nightmare boss and now work for an amazing woman, have been promoted and make twice what I made when I wrote the original post almost 3 years ago. Plus I have a shorter commute. I pinch myself all the time - luckily the nightmare boss at least gave me the perspective to appreciate how good I have it!

(to the PP whose husband was sick, what happened to you is so so horrible. So sorry)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been having a minor panic attack reading about these monsters in charge.

With so many Ph.D.s unemployed or working as janitors how is this %$#& even possible/

PhD does not mean the person would be a good boss or has good character.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just clicked on this and realized that I am the OP from this thread. Just to provide a happy story: I changed jobs after 6 months with the nightmare boss and now work for an amazing woman, have been promoted and make twice what I made when I wrote the original post almost 3 years ago. Plus I have a shorter commute. I pinch myself all the time - luckily the nightmare boss at least gave me the perspective to appreciate how good I have it!

(to the PP whose husband was sick, what happened to you is so so horrible. So sorry)

Yay!

[Anonymous]

I worked for a vp at one of the gse's, a certain dave.

I was an admin.

he used to have me intercept calls from his wife looking for him when he was going out with one of his girlfriends. He wanted to me to tell him what she asked and what her mood was. And then I would get calls from the girlfriends with meeting times and coordination.

A big dick that is still in the mortgage industry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I worked at a fast food joint in high school, my boss used to sit around in the office and watch the elevator scene from Fatal Attraction over and over and over. And then he'd come out and bark at us "hey, I'm the one that earns $21,000 a year around here, not you."

I'm disturbed - but oddly, laughing, too!

Hahaha. +1

[Anonymous]

Had a boss go ballistic on me once (circa 1996) because I couldn't find a fax confirmation report for him. He trashed his office, was screaming, swearing, red faced. I cowered in my office.

He cornered me and asked me why I didn't think it was my job to help him. I calmly and politely told him that he was being rude, his behavior was unacceptable, and that if he was unable to be polite to me, I could leave if he wanted, and that would be fine.

He broke down and started to sob. But he never swore and screamed again. I lasted about 18 months after that.

[Anonymous]

Not bad as just so inappropriate......i was temping while grad school and so got assigned for a week to a construction site. Huge operation downtown so they had a trailer office on site. First day, the man in charge tells me I have to wear a dress or skirt!!?

Lol. I was thinking you are an idiot or pervert but okay. It was early 90's, summer, so I was likely to have a skirt on anyway but come on.....a dirty, dusty, site where I sat in a trailer all day and all men in and out in workboots, hard hats. There was no need except a power thing or for him to see my legs, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not bad as just so inappropriate......i was temping while grad school and so got assigned for a week to a construction site. Huge operation downtown so they had a trailer office on site. First day, the man in charge tells me I have to wear a dress or skirt!!?

Lol. I was thinking you are an idiot or pervert but okay. It was early 90's, summer, so I was likely to have a skirt on anyway but come on.....a dirty, dusty, site where I sat in a trailer all day and all men in and out in workboots, hard hats. There was no need except a power thing or for him to see my legs, I guess.

Did you deliberately wear a full-length skirt so he didn't get to see your legs? Amish or Hassidic-type would have been awesome.

[Anonymous]

Friend of mine told me that when she was temping for a lawyer, he left his dirty lunch dishes in his outbox for her to clean up for him.

[Anonymous]

I work at a fed agency. My boss was a total nightmare. So bad that a colleague filed a harassment complaint and she was removed by HR. As in actually fired by the agency, not just relocated somewhere else. I've never seen a person lose their job at an agency for anything less that completely egregious behavior, so I realized thing were really as bad as I thought they were.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Friend of mine told me that when she was temping for a lawyer, he left his dirty lunch dishes in his outbox for her to clean up for him.

This kind of thing might not be a problem. If the lawyer is really busy with billable activities that generate $600/hr, someone who makes a more reasonable amount should take care of the niceties of the office. But, typically, it is rude to leave the dishes for someone else.

But, I am sure POTUS does not do his dishes....his time is too valuable.