What's the worst thing a boss has ever said to you?

[Anonymous]

She told me I was paid what I was worth.

[Anonymous]

Nothing

The look of pure evil in her eyes was enough for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My boss has no filter. He asked me to reach out to the "midget oriental" woman in Office Services (he meant the short filipino woman).

There was the time he was telling me about how his family has had a southern plantation in the family for generations and then wistfully said, "It's a shame it's not operational anymore." I even confirmed with "But wouldn't that mean there would still be slaves?" and he double-downed. "Yeah, but it was really beautiful in its heyday."

This is terrible, but...



"midget oriental"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She told me I was paid what I was worth.

It's the truth

[Anonymous]

Years ago in my first "career" job in DC (I had moved here a year prior without a job and was doing various non-career jobs in the meantime), I had my boss tell me at my first 12 month review: "You're doing a great job at your job. You work hard and it shows. But we're never going to promote you, so go find another job, OK?"

Uh, what?

A year later, during my two year review, he says: "I thought I told you to go find another job. How's that coming?"

I told him how I felt and I was fired. I'm on my third career job since and my skills and experience are appreciated. His remarks bothered me for years (I felt for years I was on the verge of being fired for the smallest error). I'm just now getting over them.

[Anonymous]

"I'll get you an apartment in the city and a car, and I'll come spend the night 4-5 nights a week."

I was 19; he was 47 and married with three kids.

True story.

[Anonymous]

She invited me and several other, much-younger-than-she-was female colleagues to a sleepover at her house.

[Anonymous]

Mine made a lot of comments about my pregnancy and thought they were hilarious. "Can't be putting her on TV in a few months, she'll be huge!" (then proceeded to demonstrate how "huge" I'd be...in front of my whole team).
Later when I was way more huge, like 36 weeks at an out-of-town conference, he made another comment about how big I was- like, "yeah, you really are very big now." A coworker scolded him and he gave me a lame "but you look great!"
Behind my back I've seen emails denigrating me, but he never said those things to my face.

[Anonymous]

You think highly of yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She invited me and several other, much-younger-than-she-was female colleagues to a sleepover at her house.

+1. Maybe we worked at the same place. I didn't go.

[Anonymous]

During a performance review, I was told they were disappointed that I didn't do more to get out of grand jury duty, which kept me away from the office for about 5 weeks.

[Anonymous]

I once worked at a small design firm for a crazy. So many things. My favorite is that she told me that was developing too good of a rapport with my clients and that I was overshadowing her. She fired me 2 weeks later.

[Anonymous]

One boss said "Hey fatso" almost everyday while I was pregnant.


Another one told me I said "I" too much instead of "we"

Ummm. ok

[Anonymous]

"Abhsolutely I would lay off a woman before a man. Men have families to support".

Said to me by a gay single man with no dependents, and I am a single mother of two kids I support by myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Years ago in my first "career" job in DC (I had moved here a year prior without a job and was doing various non-career jobs in the meantime), I had my boss tell me at my first 12 month review: "You're doing a great job at your job. You work hard and it shows. But we're never going to promote you, so go find another job, OK?"

Uh, what?

A year later, during my two year review, he says: "I thought I told you to go find another job. How's that coming?"

I told him how I felt and I was fired. I'm on my third career job since and my skills and experience are appreciated. His remarks bothered me for years (I felt for years I was on the verge of being fired for the smallest error). I'm just now getting over them.

I understand that this was very hurtful to you but I would have taken it as him trying to tell you not to waste your time at that company. I have had a former boss tell me that she loved my work but there was no upward mobility for me. She also helped me find other opportunities and he clearly didn't but I don't see anything wrong with him telling you that you were doing a good job but there was no future there.