Worst boss you ever had.....

[Anonymous]

I worked at a small law office in college as an admin. The attorney was a huge jerk and wasn’t doing well with clients. He would routinely just not pay us (poor college kids) on time but still drove a Porsche. It was an off-campus work study job and he only paid us as much as the program subsidized. I found out another admin was making like $5 more per hour for the same work. I asked and he said too bad, her school pays more and refused to even our pay. Once, he made me walk into a bank location that was part of a massive national chain and attempt to serve them. Obviously the trained tellers wouldn’t take the papers, so I stood there like an idiot, panicking. I finally called him crying and he stormed over, took the papers from me and angrily shoved them upon some clerk, then sent me home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine was also as a nanny.

The dad was interviewing for some huge job and he went outside to leave and his car wouldn't start. This was pre-uber days so I offered him my 20 year old car that I kept in really clean, well maintained condition (and drove his baby around every day in). Instead of saying thank you, on the way out of the house he looked right at me and said "I can't believe I'm showing up to this interview in a suit that costs more than the car I'm driving".

They were first time parents and I stayed late one night so they could have their first date night since the baby was born. When they came home, the mom walked in first and started PROJECTILE vomiting red wine all over the house- floor, walls, entry table, an entire trail to the bathroom. Literally was like a scene from the exorcist.

I had worked for them for 11 months and hadn't taken a single day off. My regular commute was 40 mins each way. We were expecting a huge blizzard so I got up over two hours early and hit the road 1 hr 45 min before my start time. The storm got really bad about 30 mins into my drive. My driver's side windshield wiper flew off and was gone so I literally couldn't see anything. I called the mom and told her I was essentially stuck- it was already white out conditions and now I had zero visibility so I couldn't really continue on to work nor drive home, Her response was "So what do you expect us to do with the baby today?".

After 3 years with them, I got pregnant with my first which was a girl. They had two girls at that point. Over the years, I had chosen, ordered, laundered, and packed away all their girls' clothes. I packed them for trips. Always ensured they had a seasonally appropriate wardrobe in the correct sizes, the right clothes for camp, school, vacation, etc. They were done having kids one day when I was 30+ weeks pregnant and HUGE, I was leaving and the mom goes "Can you grab all the bins of girls clothes from the attic, load them in your car, and drop them at goodwill on your way home?" Didn't offer me a single thing.

Please tell me you took all the clothes you liked for your baby. I sure would have, and wouldn't feel one ounce of guilt over it.

I feel like this was her (perhaps misguided) way of giving them to her nanny. She knew she could do whatever she wanted with the boxes without having to pretend to be grateful, or turn them down or anything. "Hey, do you mind taking these and dropping them off" is very open, especially if she wasn't asking for receipts or any sort of accounting or follow on questions.

[Anonymous]

Oh, it's so hard to choose just one!

Think I'll go with the one I walked in on doing coke in the ladies room, who begged me not to say anything (I agreed). The next day I got to work, only to be escorted out by security, because she had told her boss that she caught me doing drugs at work. At that point, obviously, I couldn't convince anyone of the truth.

[Anonymous]

Extremely passive introvert terrified of conflict who just wanted to do paperwork quietly in her office and be left alone. Why on earth did she want to be a boss? The money and prestige I guess.
I informed her that some of the night shift staff was openly smoking in the building (a hospital) and she could check security camera records for proof. Her response was to hold her head in her hands and cry "Oh nooooo" because she was so afraid of confronting her own employees. The place fell apart.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a boss who had a public wedding website. The location of the wedding was somewhere just shocking. Somewhere you should NEVER have your wedding.

You have to tell us where!! Something super Confederate? A graveyard? A bdsm convention?

+1 You cannot do the cliffhanger. I need to know!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Decades ago I taught at a university as an adjunct. I was a hardass, I admit, on grading and class attendance. A female student accused me of improper actions as she had earned a grade which she did not like. As I was teaching 5 courses and several hundred students, she was just another roster name, I did not know her, but became much too aware of her. Her mother was very high in the University, as I discovered, and was very protective of her daughter.

As I was under contract to teach 5 courses again the Spring semester, the University could not easily fire me. But they could, and did, make my life a living hell. Lawyers hired by the University would frequently sit in my classes and note everything I said and did. I was required to hold office hours daily when I wasn’t teaching, and people would watch me. People would follow me home and often park outside my home, sometimes all night and weekends. The stress nearly destroyed me, and I seriously contemplated.

Literally the last moment the final exams ended my health care and other benefits were terminated, even though contractually they were to extend through the summer.

We are…soul sucking, life destroying monsters.

Does the school happen to begin with the letter G?

No, P has in Pa*do file

Ahhh Pee ess yoo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a boss who had a public wedding website. The location of the wedding was somewhere just shocking. Somewhere you should NEVER have your wedding.

I'm going to guess a plantation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh, it's so hard to choose just one!

Think I'll go with the one I walked in on doing coke in the ladies room, who begged me not to say anything (I agreed). The next day I got to work, only to be escorted out by security, because she had told her boss that she caught me doing drugs at work. At that point, obviously, I couldn't convince anyone of the truth.

Omg

[Anonymous]

My sister worked for the Wolf of Wall Street in a “boiler room” back in 1985 cold calling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine was also as a nanny.

The dad was interviewing for some huge job and he went outside to leave and his car wouldn't start. This was pre-uber days so I offered him my 20 year old car that I kept in really clean, well maintained condition (and drove his baby around every day in). Instead of saying thank you, on the way out of the house he looked right at me and said "I can't believe I'm showing up to this interview in a suit that costs more than the car I'm driving".

They were first time parents and I stayed late one night so they could have their first date night since the baby was born. When they came home, the mom walked in first and started PROJECTILE vomiting red wine all over the house- floor, walls, entry table, an entire trail to the bathroom. Literally was like a scene from the exorcist.

I had worked for them for 11 months and hadn't taken a single day off. My regular commute was 40 mins each way. We were expecting a huge blizzard so I got up over two hours early and hit the road 1 hr 45 min before my start time. The storm got really bad about 30 mins into my drive. My driver's side windshield wiper flew off and was gone so I literally couldn't see anything. I called the mom and told her I was essentially stuck- it was already white out conditions and now I had zero visibility so I couldn't really continue on to work nor drive home, Her response was "So what do you expect us to do with the baby today?".

After 3 years with them, I got pregnant with my first which was a girl. They had two girls at that point. Over the years, I had chosen, ordered, laundered, and packed away all their girls' clothes. I packed them for trips. Always ensured they had a seasonally appropriate wardrobe in the correct sizes, the right clothes for camp, school, vacation, etc. They were done having kids one day when I was 30+ weeks pregnant and HUGE, I was leaving and the mom goes "Can you grab all the bins of girls clothes from the attic, load them in your car, and drop them at goodwill on your way home?" Didn't offer me a single thing.

I hope you took it all right home with you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Environment so toxic that yes, I considered the final step. I left and sought professional help. I also stumbled (I now believe God’s action; I am not a particularly religious person, but I firmly believe in Karma) into a job paying me nearly 50% more with much better benefits and a mellow workplace where I was respected.

I'm glad you're here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most terrible bosses are women.

Absolutely the worst

[Anonymous]

A horrible, nasty bully, but she was also inept and HAD TO BE THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE ROOM even when she did not know at all what she was talking about. Rude and unpleasant.

Once they got rid of her, her protege (who was also a rude, dumb, bully, but also lazy and nonresponsive) wanted to take over the role.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most terrible bosses are women.

Absolutely the worst

Micromanaging can’t see the forest from the trees

[Anonymous]

I've had two near-misses. Once, after I was offered the job, the boss's husband waylaid me and said, "I hope you're a very strong person, because my wife will find your weaknesses and use them against you." I said no thanks to the job.

Another job was looking for an assistant but they were only advertising by word of mouth, which was unusual in their industry. I had a good interview, but when I asked around at the places where the job would have been advertised, I was told that the company was so toxic to work for that no one would deal with them. I noped out of that one, too.

The worst boss I had was when I was young and fearless and galloping racehorses. I quit the day he chased another rider, screaming at her and brandishing a whip, while both of them were mounted on barely started baby Thoroughbreds.