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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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MoronIt's a small firm involved in a merger but the industry is like 1 big high school. The new boss has drifted thru several companies where she has a rep for not doing anything, her projects bombing left & right; runs ops groups with no knowledge (nor willingness to learn) of the work they deliver.... more Swimming against the currentI have been employed at a bank as a financial advisor for seven months. Prior to that, I was a regional marketing consultant and highly compensated. I have a masters degree in business and a stellar resume. Unfortunatley, like so many others, I was laid off due to the poor economy. I live in a ru... more My Boss Can't make a scheduleI work for a home health-care company and our schedules are planed a month at a time. My regular client had traveled out of town with family and didn't need our services so I was assigned to a temporary client. Upon returning to my regular client I find that my boss has shafted, I'm sorry, schedule... more Seriously? Did you just say that?I went to the principal of my school to ask for help with dealing with my office mate. My office mate was extremely moody, crabby, and sneaky, and I needed my principal to confront her, rather than me. I knew if I did it, my office working situation would become even more hostile. I described my ... more Work With Dignity Is Not PossibleI worked with a company for more than 13 years but it was a very bad part of my life becuase of the low-dignity behave by my boss. You can't dare to ask any thing even if he violates the terms at which u r appointed. Moreover, he always use taunting languare and foul words in present of female st... more So much for being a team playerI have always believed the idea of being a team player was best and have tried in every job I have had to get along with other people and try to share my knowledge with anyone needing to hear it in the hope that their performance would improve overall. My thought was: "shared understanding lead... more Wrong Boss for Wrong BusinessI was unemployed when I was offered a position doing just about everything at a start up sign shop. I decided to take it on, seeing that I didn't have any management experience and I needed a job. The first month was slow, little things were happening I thought would get worked out by the boss. Not ... more Abusive BossMy boss is CRAZY! I work in a child care center and though she is not this way to the children, she has been known to do many things in front of the children. I have had a play kitchen set thrown at me, screaming at any of us happens many times a day. We are called stupid if we make a mistake and sc... more A boss who knows nothing at all, yet he decides everything aimlessly!!It's been a month since the arrival of the new Supervisor to the place i work in. We've heard that he is a cool boss but to our disappointment, he is anything but cool.
He doesn't know the basics to run a unit!! He wants to decide every little thing. Yet, he has no idea about anything!! We try t... more 10 hours of torture every dayAs a fresh graduate I was very excited to start my first full-time job. During the interview I was given an option to pick sales or marketing as my position at this company. I had picked marketing as it was my qualification and interest. I showed lots of enthusiasm at work, showed leadership skills,... more My Stupid Boss: The Lab RatI've found a new way to cope with stupid government management that was driving me to the brink of insanity. I've been experimenting with my managers like lab rats. I'm working at a much slower pace, putting stuff off, ignoring emails and requests, withholding advice, not participating at meetings,... more Serious Boundary IssuesI work in Healthcare as an independent contractor, but thats only on paper cause the manager/owner treats everyone like employees. First of all, he has no receptionist in the office, so that means that all of us therapists are expected to answer the phone and book appointments when we are not in ses... more Manager taught me not to honestI saw an employee take something from our stock without paying for it, so I discretely went to the manager and told him about it- thinking this is the right thing to do: tell management. The manager then told me that I should have stood up and confronted my co-worker and told them to put it back or ... more The Peter principlePeople rise to their greatest level of incompetence, isn't that the saying? My "boss" is a wreck. She constantly talks about the abusive relationships she's been in, her ex-druggie and always pregnant daughters (none are married), and how she "gave up" drinking -- read "go... more My SUPER [bad] Executive ChefState labor law requires that employees working over 20 hours a week for four consecutive weeks require employers to provide health insurance.
My executive chef had told me that a raise had been approved for me, but 3 months later, i realized that he hadn't been pursuing it. After my sous chef had... more my Boss THINKS he knows english looooooooolI work for a legal consultancy company
well my boss likes to show off especially if he has guests in the office, he starts calling important people on the phone to show off in front of his guests, and he thinks he knows english.
one time while he was talking on the phone with a Head of a company... more Can this really save money?I work for a small office supply company and my boss once tried to calculate how much money he would save yearly if he removed the light bulb in the refrigerator! Working for a politicianI work for a local county politician in a small town. When my old boss retired, no one in the office wanted to run for the position, and this idiot got elected. During his campaign he emphasized that he was the only candidate with "real experience", although he has no idea what he is doing... more Mr. Slimey gets creamed!A lady friend of mine went to work for an advertising firm and was placed under the watchful eye of Mr. Slimey.
Mr. Slimey has been busted watching internet porn during work hours. But because of his strong management skills and his favor with the owner, he was slapped on the wrist and the incid... more Strange, stupid or just wierd?My boss is one of a kind, sometimes he means well but gets it wrong, sometimes he is just stupid and when he is at his best he just leaves me alone (then I can do my job).
I work with transports, I deliver various consumer articles to people in rural areas for the most part but also to others in ... more
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