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Have you ever felt outraged, mystified, or just plain disbelief at
the antics of your boss? Do they take credit for your ideas? Put you down? What
do they do that makes your life a misery?
Why not let off some steam and add your story now!
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Needs to take math class again.I just started a new job at a fast food restaurant. With the current economy it was basically all that is open. Well we have about 3 orders of fries ready at one time when the store is slow. A car came through the drive through and ordered 7 fries and 5 chicken nuggets, which come out of the same... more no leadership my boss is a very talkative lady. kept on shooting at people's weaknesses. before anyone can finish talking or expressing their thinking, she will jump in with her conclusion and judge you upon that. what you do is irrelevant as long as she sees you as not up to her standard.
directions and instruc... more My boss has no idea what she is doingmy boss is not qualified for her job. she was fired from one job for stealing and is just an idiot. she asks stupid questions and annoys people. is she still here? she needs to go away, back under the hole she crawled out of. Insensitive, stupid, idiotMy boss.. oh well.. I don't actually consider him as a boss. To me and to the rest of our team, he is just an OIC in our account trying hard to gain the trust of the big bosses. He wanted to totally manipulate each and every person in our team. I remember him saying he idolize Hitler. No wonder he a... more My boss is an idiotDue to cutbacks, my boss told me I needed to scale back on the employees in my area. I did so, telling her that this would result in vacancies if anyone called in sick. I was told to do it. Last week she came through and told one of my assistants we didn't have enough people and randomly hired so... more Most expensive person in the company is our "courier"I was told approximately 3 years ago that I was paid too much to balance deposits and be the company Personnel Manager, I would now need to learn how to key patient demographics, key daily charges, MRI's, Epidurals, CT Scans and followup and do collections.....do this along with hiring, terminations... more The boss who doesn't know anything My company is a swiss co. dealing with mechanical engineering goods. When I was hired, my boss was this guy with technical and managerial experience for a US MNC. Somehow, after doing the entire business setup and managing to bring in sales from various MNCs, he has been deemed inefficient and rep... more Boss Behaving BadlyMy boss has it out for my head. He wants me to leave our department within the company. Why? Because he has a family member working in the SAME department where he is the boss and this family member is a direct-report to him. Fortunately I work in a unionized environment, so he cannot merely fir... more THE STUPID ONE'Si work for a lumber yard, that they are going to be the reason for them going out of business. both my store manager and the disrict manager both to just fire them selfs because i am the lowest guy in the company. which is working out in the yard, and the thing is i can run the store or stores 5x be... more Bullying behaviour by the store manager and area managerI'm working at a company that is still making money and opening new stores although we are in a recession, which should be assuring, but 2 months ago they made 7 of the full timers redundant. The store is nearly 40 000square feet now we're expected to do our own departments and all the departments t... more Delegate....offload...take creditI work for an property consultant. I have always heard people whine that their bosses are stupid. But I strongly feel that its ok to be stupid...but not a hypocrite and an egoist.
My boss advocates delegating of work actvely.
We prepare the proposals, someone brings the business, one another d... more Bad Girl! You made a mistake! Go to your cubicle for time out!!I worked for a government office where the 'boss' whined and complained about making every penny count. Yet, since he demanded perfection from us (it's actually a directive), if we made a mistake on something, he'd take the work away from us & make us sit in our cubicle with NOTHING to do!! We ... more Manpower Study = micromanaging bossI work as a subcontractor on a military base and currently we are going through what's known as a Manpower Study. Basically, it's like that part of the movie Office Space where a 3rd party consulting team comes in to figure out how to make the current workforce "more efficient". Through ... more Canceling the noiseIn our government office, the boss is a woman who has imposed a series of rules about activities that are not to take place when she is in the office because the noise bothers her. In classic "Do as I say, not as I do" fashion, she holds loud discussions and monologues in common areas be... more This truck story just gets better...... part 1 below...Well after taking 4 days to just get a simple license plate on the company delivery truck things seem to get much worse. The lift is in such bad repair that it makes delivering bins full of donuts nearly impossible. After trying every possible avenue to get the truck fixed through management I call... more Worked with both bully bosses & coworkersI am astounded at how rampant this problem is. Could it be workplaces are really so toxic? My personal experience makes me think so.
Personally, I have worked in offices where both bosses and coworkers were abusive bullies.
Bully bosses:
Bully bosses tend to be more direct (power goes to th... more Demoralization is a chainI was laid off in December 2008 from a terrible place that received a government bail-out. My boss was an idiot, but he was only one in a chain of idiots who practiced the art of demoralization. His boss would berate him in front of the people he worked for, and then, my boss would berate those who ... more Forced to drive illegal truckWork for a company that is famous for donuts and coffee. While delivering donuts the other day i was pulled over by state troopers and issued a ticket for no front license plate. That was on a Tuesday morning. Now Thursday I go back into work and find out that the company has not put a new plate on ... more verbal compliment / email repramandmy boss compliments me verbally to my face, but she sends and email to tell me all the wrong that i do. i feel she is setting me up with a documented record of the wrong i do but maintains no record of the good i do. what should i do. she is setting me up.... My boss has taken a left turn and is decompensating. Hi. I work in NYC in the textile industry, and we are experiencing a change where some jobs will be eliminated. My job is being terminated and I've known about this for about 6 months, but I'm not panicking. My boss recently learned his job is ending; all hell is breaking loose, the sky is falling ... more
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