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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's my bad boss story:

My husband was diagnosed with a terminal illness.  He had a very small chance to live.  We found the only doctor in the country that would do a specialized surgery to cure him of his condition.  I told my boss this, and she would give me SUCH a hard time every time I had to help out my husband.  I couldn't stop working for insurance and financial reasons.  Long story short, she made my life a LIVING HELL.  She also wrote an insane, very negative review in my file, preventing me from a transfer.

Five years later, her MIL (who she hated) was diagnosed with lung cancer (heavy smoker).  My boss would take her to every chemo appointment, and eventually she died.  I expressed my condolences and my boss told me that "at least I could be there for her all the time.  You just dumped your husband at the hospital all the time.  I was too shattered to say anything back.

I just quit the following week for something better.[/quote]

Sorry- I am cancer boss from above.  I read the whole thread and remembered more things (I think I have PTSD, seriously).

- She also asked me to move my wedding around because of "staffing needs".  There was no staffing needs at all, but she printed out my response (I obviously told her I couldn't), and wrote in my evaluation that I was "not a team player".

- She told me that she thought her race/religion/ethnic origin were the superior race.  She was drunk, but come on.

- She got drunk all the time at work.

- She asked my AA coworker to "explain black talk"

- She set up my coworker with her cousin without telling my coworker.

- She would change her mind all the time, and then claim we had "gone rogue".  Then she'd add this in our evaluation.

- She told my gay coworker that he would soon outgrow his attraction to men, and he just needed to find the right woman.

- she told my coworker that she "looked like a skank".  (she really didn't, but in my boss's religion, any skirt above the knee was tantamount to being naked).

- She wouldn't let anyone put up photos of obama because that was "too political".  Dude we work for the government and he's the president!

- She'd show up to work at 11, leave for lunch at 1, come back at 3, leave at 4.  Every Friday she left at 12, which is fine, but she never made up the work.  She would just dump it on everyone else,  (nothing like being given 5 hours of work at 12 to finish on top of your own work!), and then say we weren't "team players" if we had to leave.

- Christmas Eve, Christmas, and Easter were not considered to be holidays.  Even though the office was officially closed, she would always go to work on those days, and assign work to be done Dec 26th.  FWIW, Dec 26th is St Stephen's day, a day I celebrated every year just so she couldn't ding my evaluation as she did my coworkers for not coming into work on the 26th.  I was also written up for requesting to leave early on Dec 24th.  This is despite putting in a request months earlier and having it granted.

- No matter how many times I or my coworkers complained, she outlasted us all.  I am sure she's still there terrifying and insulting everyone who crosses her path.  [/quote]

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